Madonna has told Time magazine that the media created the controversy over her adoption of little David Banda, saying that the average person would not independently think she had done anything wrong. "But when you throw in things like I'm a celebrity and I somehow got special treatment, or make the implication of kidnapping, it gets mixed into a stew, and it sells lots of papers," she said, adding: "What they should care about is that there are over a million orphans in Malawi".
The singer went on to say that she felt there was a racist element to the reportage, saying "there's a lot of Brits - reporters on the street - who've said 'Why don't you adopt a kid from Britain?' Or 'Why did you adopt a black child?'"