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“If he kept his son in the village, he would have buried him.” So says Madonna, defending her decision to adopt a baby from Malawi. The pop start ended her silence today with a soft sofa option on an interview on the Oprah Winfrey show. Speaking in a live link from London, she tells the talk show host that the boy’s father has supported the adoption and that the media reaction had done a great disservice to all the orphans for Africa.

What do you want to say to all those people who are attacking you saying that you did this is publicity stunt?

For weeks, others have their say. Finally Madonna had hers. Turning to her native country for redress, she went on to the Oprah Winfrey show to deny a deluge of claims: she used her wealth and celebrity to bypass Malawian adoption laws.

It’s pretty shocking.

Are you hurt by it? Are you angry?

I wouldn’t say I’m hurt by it, I would say I’m disappointed, because more than anything, I mean for me, I understand that gossips and telling negative stories sells newspapers. But, I think for me, I’m disappointed because more than anything it discourages other people from doing the same thing.

She said social worker warned her it would be extremely hard to adopt in Malawi, but she was determined. Having first seen David Banda in footage she was viewing for a documentary, she became transfixed by his plight. He suffered in TV in Malawian and withheld by a child who was sick with AIDS. She flew to Malawi where she funds six orphanages and started adoption proceedings. She insists it was with full consent of his father.

He looked into my eyes, and said to me that he was very grateful that I was going to give his son a life, and that that had he kept his son with him in the village, he would have buried him.

But since then Benda has been quoted saying he didn’t realize he was giving up his son for good. And on Friday, a human rights group challenged the adoption in Malawi’s high court. Nevertheless, today the country’s president waded in for the defense.

Malawi has over one million orphans. Some of them, many will be able to go to school. And someone comes and takes one child to give that child a future, education. And we won’t make a noise I don’t know I did don’t know.

While Madonna’s choice to speak only to Oprah may have been a rebuttal to the press reaction here. Her decision to do one high-profile interview is now a well-trodden path for celebrities with a point to make.

If you like the media is doing the great disservice to all the orphans of Africa period not just in Malawi by terminating such a negative thing.

Meanwhile she says her own children have embraced their potential brother-to-be.

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