LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Call it delayed reaction.

A year after Madonna called him "emotionally retarded," former husband Guy Ritchie said in an Esquire magazine interview that hit the Web on Wednesday that he still loves her, but that she is "retarded" herself.

The 41 year-old British director said Madonna "makes things happen" and works hard at her career.

"And, of course, here you go: I still love her," Ritchie told the magazine. "But she's retarded, too."

The couple finalized their divorce in a U.K. court last November, after eight years of marriage. They have a 9 year-old son together, and also adopted a boy from Malawi.

During an October 2008 concert in Boston, Madonna told the crowd, "This song is for the emotionally retarded. Maybe you know some people who fall in that category. I know I do."

Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" tour, which wrapped last month in Israel, smashed her own record for top-grossing tour by a solo artist, with $408 million from 85 concerts.

Ritchie, famed for such British gangster films as "Snatch" and "RocknRolla," returns to theaters in December with "Sherlock Holmes," a raucous adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle detective stories, with Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role.

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interesting

Guy's weird...

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus It the same ol' story....

They´re acting like little kids.



Is that for real?
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$408 million from 85 concerts? DAMN!

Madonna undoubtedly once kicked Guy's henpecked ass down a flight of stairs.

Copycat said:

GET OUT OF HERE!

Copycat said:

I read she was a victim of domestic violence from Sean Penn, that he shoved her head in a toilet bowl, during a fight. I guess she isn't the victim anymore, she is the violator!!!

Ritchie was too square for Madonna anyway, I can't believe she stayed married to him that long. Madonna is the bad girl that can't go good.

I had heard he was mentally abusive and he slapped her but I didn't know Sean did all of that.

Cinnie said:

That's about how much 700 Guy Ritchie movies would gross (something tells me, including "Sherlock Holmes"....he's going to kill Downey's career resurgence).

VinnyM27 said:

We all know who wore the strap-on in that relationship.

Timmy84 said:

Yeah Sean was a crazy muthafucker.

Cinnie said:

I wish she would have tried to put it in his eye!

Timmy84 said:

i heard worse about it actually. that he tied her up for a weekend with a telephone cord and something about her head in the oven? "details" are hazy.

supposedly she was pregnant with his kid and after whatever went down, she went and got rid of it and told friends she'd never carry his child.

errant said:

Wow...

Madonna's making serious money... dayum

i think that 400 million figure is just gross.

she probably gets much less after all the costs etc are taken out.

Timmy84 said:

but surely she doesn't get all they money.

Paying her dancers, muscians other employees makes the least costs

Transporting, concert agencies, her managers, Live Nation and organizers...

But still she gets an estimated 1,5 million $/concert.

I can't belive she doesn't have less than half a billion.

NoVideo said:

Her tours are hugely successful and highly lucrative.Do the math:

Drowned World Tour (2001) gross: $75 million
Re-Invention Tour (2004) gross: $125 million
Confessions Tour (2006) gross: $260.1 million
Sticky And Sweet Tour (2008 and 2009) gross: $408 million

include the profits from the tour merchandise,and TV deals (Drowned World and Confessions were shown on TV),and we're talking some major bucks here.

No one's buying CDs anymore,so artists have to find other ways to generate income.Looks like Madonna has done exactly that.

Timmy84 said:

A friend of mine that stayed with them in London said M threw a tv at him while she was there. That bitch IS retarted.

SoulAlive said:

And I'm sure Madonna done worked her hustle that at this point in her career she's easily clearing at least half of the take. She baaaaaddd bitch.

Those tour earnings are "retarded"

SCNDLS said:

her work ethic is incredible.