“What was wonderful about the money was that I
could put a roof over my head and food in my stomach, but
after that it just becomes unnecessary,”
Madonna tells Grazia magazine. “Then you
begin to realize there are whole areas of your life
where you are not happy. I was definitely lonely 10 and
15 years ago. There are whole chunks of my life where I was
so lonely, and periods where I felt I didn’t have a friend in
the world and wondered if it was ever going to be possible
for me to have a relationship that was going to last.”
Madonna credits her turnaround to “finding a man who can handle me” — film
director Guy Ritchie, who is now her husband.