Pop icon Madonna revealed she contemplated suicide during a brutal custody battle with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie over their then-teenage son.

Giving her first interview in nine years for the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, Madonna described moments in her life when she wanted to “cut my arms off,” before discussing one particularly tumultuous time in more detail.

“Probably one of the most painful moments in my life, where I honestly couldn’t see the forest for the trees, was when I went through a custody battle with my son [Rocco],” she said.

“Someone trying to take my child away from me was like, they might as well just kill me. That’s really how I was thinking. And I was on tour at the time, so I had to go on stage every night, and I would just be lying on the floor of my dressin

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