Madonna was 19 when a man put a knife to her throat and raped her on a New York rooftop.
Six years later, the nude photos she'd posed for to pay rent were on every newsstand, in Playboy and Penthouse.
The world waited for her to be ashamed. She wasn't. So they called her a whore.
In the video below she says it all to a room full of women at Billboard. Wait for what she says about Prince.
"Raped on a rooftop with a knife digging into my throat. And I had my apartment broken into and robbed so many times I just stopped locking the door."
On the nudes: "They weren't very sexy. In fact, I look quite bored."
"I was expected to feel ashamed when these photos came out, and I was not. And this puzzled people."
Then she put out a book called "Sex." Headlines called her a whore and a witch. One compared her to Satan.
"Isn't Prince running around with fishnets and high heels and lipstick with his butt hanging out? Yes, he was. But he was a man."
Even a famous feminist said she set women back by objectifying herself.
Was she a victim of the industry, or did she get exactly what she sold?
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
My little chewy baby crossed the rainbow bridge tonight . Truthfully I am not okay , but I know he is in a better place and not suffering . I will probably make a better post about him after I process all of this.
‼️ NEW CIVILIAN TRAITS ‼️
eugene’s unique trait allows him to regenerate stamina & decrease stalk tiers much quicker while lingering in bushes.
while michelle’s allows her to heal a percentage of nearby civilians/targets health whenever she used a health item on herself 🩶