I am so sick of Madonna. There’s a chance Madonna might not have adopted little Davie Banda for publicity, but she sure is milking it for all it’s worth. She went on Oprah already, so she should just stay in London, go see her colorist and continue to do Pilates while dressed in furry hoodies. Instead she came over to the states and is doing the talkshow circuit, bitching about how people care about her babysnatching when there are so many other problems in the world. If she really didn’t want people to pay attention, she shouldn’t have announced her visit to Malawi to the press and she should have stayed home in London instead of talking about it to everyone.

There’s this story that another woman wanted to adopt Davie, but it sounds like she just cared for him and it’s not completely clear in the article that she was going to adopt him. Yohan Banda claims she was going to adopt him, but the press puts words in his mouth and I’m not sure.

This other woman was a Canadian grandmother who stayed in Malawi near the orphanage for months at a time. She says that two other Canadian couples adopted babies from there and that it took freaking three years and a ton of stress before they were able take the infants home. Now that seems extreme and I think that it should be easier for people to adopt babies from third world countries – but not so easy that it takes less than a month!

Madonna now claims that she offered Yohane Banda the option to keep Davie and that she asked him if he wanted money. He says the first time he saw her was in court and that he was made to sign a bunch of paperwork right away. It sounds like Madonna is either lying through her gapped teeth or she’s embellishing an incident that was half-assed on her part and that the guy didn’t understand. “Can I give you some money…” “No, No.”

Yohane Banda has been interviewed from now till Sunday, and he hasn’t said anything about Madonna offering him money, so he probably didn’t understand it if she indeed gave him that option.

I am not an adoption expert, but I love my kid and I do my best to follow attachment parenting and to be there for him. Madonna had a nanny fetch David from Malawi and she went to Pilates on his first morning in London.

I would have included excerpts form the stories here, which I read while rolling my eyes and shaking my head this morning, but you can read it for yourself from the links above. The whole thing just annoys me. Maybe the kid will have a great life full of Jewish mysticism and The Wiggles, and his dad is surely making money by giving quotes to the press so maybe his life will turn out ok by extension, but Madonna needs to go away now. I don’t want to see or speak of her again. (But I will, you know I will.)