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Madonna offered to support the African baby she hopes to adopt and leave him in Malawi but his father declined, the pop star has told the BBC.
In a Newsnight interview, to be shown on Wednesday night, she denied reports that David Banda had regular visits from his family at his orphanage.
She “became interested in him” after being told he had been “left in the orphanage”, she said.
He is now at her London home after she was granted a temporary custody order.
Madonna denied newspaper reports that David had regular visits at the orphanage from his father and his grandmother.
“I disagree,” she said.
Asked if it would have been an option to support him and leave him in Malawi, she replied: “Yes, I offered that option to the father and he declined.
“And I never met a granny and I was told… that from the day that he was left in the orphanage he was not visited by any extended family members and that’s really why I became interested in him.
“If someone had said to me, ‘His dad comes every week or his granny visits on a regular basis and he’s well looked after,’ I would not even have given it another thought.”
There were “many conditions” that made her “worry for his life”, Madonna added.
“One was the fact that, according to the reverend who ran the orphanage that David came from, his father never visited him.
“His father lived 50 or 60km away, had no car, had no money and, as far as I was told, had remarried and moved on with his life.”
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source : bbc

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Madonna said Tuesday that the father of the African boy she is trying to adopt refused her offer of financial assistance to help him keep his son.
“I said I would be happy to … bring him back to your village and help you financially raise him. And he said no,” Madonna told Meredith Vieira in an interview set to air on “Today” and “Dateline NBC” on Wednesday and Thursday.
The boy”~s father, Yohane Banda, said last week that he feared criticism of the adoption would prompt the singer to drop her efforts, and he urged her not to do so.
The singer”~s efforts to adopt David Banda have set off a media storm, one that Madonna told “Today” reflects “our inability to focus on the real problems and our desire to have distractions and to be consumed with people”~s personal lives and gossip.”
“That”~s underneath a lot of people”~s prejudice about me adopting David,” she told “Today.” “I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I”~ve adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.”
source : ap

Madonna will defend her adoption of an African boy on BBC2’s Newsnight tomorrow.
The pop superstar will speak to presenter Kirsty Wark in her first British interview since adopting 13-month-old David Banda from Malawi.
It follows her appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show in the US last week.
The interview will be recorded tonight in the US where the singer has scheduled several other TV appearances.
She flew there at the beginning of the week with David and her other children Lourdes, nine, and Rocco, five.
Madonna will also use the chat to publicise her new children’s book The English Roses: Too Good To Be True.
source : thesun

Madonna and David Banda, the Malawian child she is attempting to adopt, boarded a flight bound for the U.S. on Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
The singer will do sit down interviews that will be taped for the “Today” show and “Dateline NBC,” a press release from the network said.
Photographers shot pictures of the pop star as she carried the 13-month-old through London’s Heathrow Airport. London’s Daily Mail reported today that she was accompanied by her 10-year-old daughter, Lourdes, and 6-year-old son, Rocco.
Meredith Vieira will chat with the pop star in an interview airing Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 on “Today.” Another segment of the interview will air on “Dateline NBC” on Nov. 1 at 10 p.m.
She appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last week. On the broadcast she defended the adoption and spoke of how well he was adjusting to his new family.
On Friday a Malawian judge held a closed-door hearing about the adoption. Another hearing was set for Nov. 13, during which lawyers will submit arguments for why the adoption should be reviewed, the AP reported.
Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, were given temporary custody of the boy earlier this month. David’s father Yohane Banda said he was too poor to raise the child whose mother died after childbirth.
source : cbs