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The Mistress of Pop, Madonna, has been opening up about the turmoil that took place these past couple of years in her personal life. Recently, the singer joked to David Letterman that she would rather be “run over by a train” than remarry.

In her interview with Rolling Stone, Madge is more diplomatic when describing her divorce from Guy Ritchie as “challenging.” She adds, “I’m very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.”

A little hyperbole aside, the star says that splitting custody of her kids has “been an adjustment.” Madonna explains, “My sons aren’t with me right now, they’re with their father, and I’m not very comfortable with the idea of my children not living together.”

Any other regrets? Maybe just a bad outfit from her early career. “It was the purple lipstick, fluorescent-green sweater combo…It’s OK,
it was the Eighties. It was a bad-hairstyle era. Let’s face it.” Hey, we’ve all been granted blanket amnesty for fashion crimes during that era.

Gallery Info: Madonna on the cover of Rolling Stone.