This
is
the
official
statement
from
Christopher
Ciccone
in
reference
to
his
sister,
pop
superstar
Madonna.
Ciccone
has
written
a
“tell-all”
best-seller,
titled
“Life
With
My
Sister
Madonna.”
When
it
hit
the
newsstands,
“Life”
was
promoted
as
a
scandal-soaked
muckfest,
luring
readers
with
promises
of
secret
details
about
one
of
the
most
famous
people
in
the
world.
But
now
that
it
has
been
released,
readers
are
discovering
a
different
book
entirely.
This
is
not
a
tale
about
a
pop-star’s
secret
life;
it’s
the
story
of
Ciccone
himself,
what
it’s
like
living
in
the
shadow
of
a
pop
star
and
how
he
tries
to
break
away.
“It’s
not
a
bloodbath,”
he
says.
“I
think
there
are
a
number
of
people
who
are
disappointed
that
it’s
not.
When
the
book
came
out,
I
was
getting
some
very
negative
e-mail,
that
I
was
betraying
her
and
I
was
about
to
tear
her
apart.
But
all
the
people
who
said
they
didn’t
want
that
to
happen
were
the
same
people
who
wanted
to
read
it.”
HORDES
OF
PEOPLE
have
purchased
the
book,
but
Ciccone
isn’t
sure
if
his
sister
is
one
of
them.
They
haven’t
spoken
in
years.
“We
haven’t
spoken
about
it
directly,”
he
says.
“She’s
written
a
number
of
e-mails
to
my
father.
But
I
don’t
know
whether
she’s
read
it
or
not,
or
what
her
particular
reaction
is
to
it.”
Some
lurid
details
do
make
it
into
the
book,
including
claims
that
Madonna
repeatedly
agreed
to
business
arrangements
with
Ciccone
and
then
reneged.
He
also
says
she
exploited
the
plights
of
her
family
to
her
own
benefit,
even
outing
Ciccone
in
an
interview
with
the
Advocate
to
win
the
favor
of
gay
fans.
The
book
also
alleges
that
Madonna
had
sex
to
advance
her
career,
terrorized
people
who
worked
for
her,
staged
visits
to
her
mother’s
grave,
and
used
her
brother
as
her
doormat.
Time
and
again,
he
picked
himself
up
and
went
back
for
more,
he
says.
CICCONE
ALSO
TAKES
DIRECT
AIM
at
people
closest
to
his
sister,
including
her
husband,
perennially
unemployed
movie
director
Guy
Ritchie.
There
is
a
strong
mutual
dislike
between
the
men.
Ciccone
blames
Ritchie
for
his
falling
out
with
Madonna,
claiming
the
new
man
in
her
life
drove
the
final
wedge
between
them.
“He
didn’t
like
our
relationship,
and
for
him
to
get
in
there,
I
had
to
go,”
he
says.
“On
top
of
that,
I
was
gay,
and
that
made
him
very
uncomfortable.
“She’d
had
many
other
boyfriends,
and
a
husband,
prior
to
him,
and
we’d
never
had
a
problem,”
Ciccone
says.
“All
it
meant
to
me
was
there
was
going
to
be
trouble
ahead,
and
this
guy
was
not
secure
enough
to
deal
with
me.
Wait
until
he
had
to
deal
with
her.”
Ciccone
claims
Madonna
gradually
lost
her
sense
of
self,
and
she
subjugated
herself
to
his
male
pride
for
the
sake
of
their
marriage.
“I
wasn’t
prepared
to
watch
her
turn
into
‘Mrs.
Ritchie,’”
he
says.
“There
was
a
brief
moment
when
she
was
‘Mrs.
Penn,’”
he
says,
in
reference
to
her
famously
stormy
marriage
to
Sean
Penn.
“But
that
lasted
for
about
five
minutes.”
As
for
his
relationship
with
his
sister,
Ciccone
sees
their
working
relationship
as
over.
But
he
is
“hopeful”
they
will
make
amends
on
some
level.
“Madonna
really
isn’t
one
of
those
people
who
you
hang
around
with
as
a
buddy
anyways,”
he
says.
“She
doesn’t
sit
around
and
shoot
the
shit
and
drink
a
beer
with
you.
It’s
not
really
her
style,
and
it
never
has
been.
But
a
certain
civility
would
be
great.”
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BogusMadonna50 on 8/22/087:35 AM:
Madonna suffers from frozen feelings. Her life is an expose, a person over-compensating for a loss that was never adequately addressed in her life. Her father should take more personal responsibility in how he contributed to his daughter becoming such a narcissist. Madonna lead Christopher on for years, promising to give him something she can't even give herself - a sense of acceptance and belonging. Madonna was wise to Christopher's vulnerability in being gay. She exploited him in public, and also to her own family. She used her brother, seeing him as just an extension of herself.
