Madonna and Guy Ritchie shortly after the fall in 2005

It turns out it wasn't A-Rod that broke up Madonna's marriage. It was a horse. Of course. Apparently Madonna was less than pleased with Guy's "unsympathetic" reaction to her falling off a horse and breaking eight bones in 2005. A close family friend told The Sun:

"From the moment Madonna fell from that horse, their marriage was doomed. If you can pinpoint an exact event or incident which spelled the death knell for them as a couple, Madonna's horse-riding accident was it. Every other row the couple had following that boiled down to what happened that summer.

"Madonna was in a huge amount of pain and expected Guy to drop everything to be at her bedside. In her mind that is what every husband should do to support his wife when she has been through a traumatic, possibly life-threatening, experience. But Guy approached the whole thing in what she now calls, 'A very British way'. Instead of smothering her with sympathy he said, 'Come on darling, you're a tough bird. You'll be back on the horse in no time'. Guy's approach was that a few broken bones is no big deal – and that there was no point in making a drama out of a crisis. But in Madonna's mind, she could have been killed, and she wanted the full works and to be lavished with love and attention." (Source)

I'm sure a horse ruined Madonna . . . and his name was Dennis Rodman. That guy made it impossible for her to be happy with any man not wielding 14 inches of man-meat. Besides, can you really blame Guy for not being more sympathetic towards Madonna when she broke a couple of bones? She's had more bones inside of her than Arlington National Cemetery.

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