And people, this is him AFTER he gets injured. You can not hinder this sexy. Don't even try.

She was right before the tipping point, when the public realized that the church had been settling claims and moving priests in secret, so the pattern took decades to emerge. But when it did, and the anger came out, it was an avalanche. She was about two years too soon for people to understand.

Yeah and Frank Sintra and Joe Pesci threatened to beat her up and everyone thought that was just great. The fights I had with co-workers over that. They told me it was cool cause those guys were Italian and I should just chill.

It wasn't just that, though. Ireland has a lot of anger for the Church, not just for the sexual abuse but also for their abortion stance and the Magdalene Laundries.

"On the Swiss set of Sils Maria..."
Anyone else read this as "Silas Marner" at first? No? Just the English Lit major/book nerd? Carry on, then.

Funny story: Remember when Sinead ripped up the picture of the Pope? It was because she was protesting the long history of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the Church hierarchy's commitment to protecting pedophile priests. Boy did she ever turn out to be right.

Have you been paying attention since 1995? She has talked over and over, openly, about how embarassed she is at her behaviour back then. How egotistical she was, how selfish and shallow. She's evolved since then, haven't you grown as a person over your life? What makes you think she is less capable of working towards…

God, some of you people suck.

Loving the comments on this article. So great to see women who claim to be feminists or at least to care about women's rights calling Madonna a liar. They're taking about her Sex book, her stage performances, her persona, her attention seeking behaviour. I'm so glad that all that means she must be lying! She couldn't…

Woah.

I want to fucking puke reading the comments here. Disgusting.

This article (not necessarily the rape comments, but the whole part about struggling in NY as a young dancer) made me fall in love with her all over again. Before the plastic surgery and castles in England, she was really scrappy and for a young teenager, pretty bad ass and inspirational. Apparently there was another…

Some of yall are really disgusting.

You make absolutely no fucking sense.

I really wanna tell them fuck off because they are fucking idiots. I am sorry. I need to stay the fuck off the mainpage because these people cray.

Thank you! I thought the first comment was just a troll and that the rest would be calling her/him out on their bullshit. WTF?? She's doing this for attention? Of course because only "certain" women should be believed when they say they were raped, right? Can someone remind me who those women are?

Agreed. The comments suggesting that are all sorts of fucked up.

I will join the group not comfortable with dismissing her account out of hand. From what actually seems to be the first mention of the rape in the media (NME 12-2-1995). I say this because Madonna claims in the interview that she has never mentioned it before.

I disagree. To quote the above comments: