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Madonna finally addressed her planned adoption on the ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ in an interview that aired yesterday. The Material mom spoke to Oprah via satellite from a TV studio in London and revealed that she has only the best of intentions for the 13-month-old African boy named David Banda. She also shared a few home pictures of David, the kids, and Guy Ritchie. Here are a few highlights from the interview:

Madonna on the negative media surrounding David’s adoption: “I didn’t realize that the adoption was causing any controversy until I came back. There were a million film crews in the airport and press camped outside my door. I don’t read newspapers or watch television, but all of my friends have let me know what everybody’s talking about and what’s going on in the news. So it didn’t really hit me until I got back to England. It’s pretty shocking.”

Madonna on David’s fathers claim that he was misled into signing over his son: “I do not believe that is true. I sat in that room, I looked into that man’s eyes,” Madonna says. “I believe that the press is manipulating this information out of him. I believe at this point in time, he’s been terrorized by the media. They have asked him things, repeatedly, and they have put words in his mouth. They have spun a story that is completely false.”

Madonna on how Lourdes and Rocco reacted to the new addition: “They just embraced him, and that’s the amazing thing about children. They don’t ask questions. They’ve never once said, “What is he doing here”, or mentioned the difference in his skin color, or questioned his presence in our life. That is an amazing lesson that children do teach us.”

Madonna on the state of David’s health: “When I met him, he was extremely ill. He had severe pneumonia, and he could hardly breathe. I was in a state of panic, because I didn’t want to leave him in the orphanage because I knew they didn’t have medication to take care of him. We got permission to take him to a clinic to have a bronchial dilator put on him. … He had pneumonia and was given an injection of antibiotics. He’s still a little bit ill, not completely free of his pneumonia, but he’s much better than he was when we found him.”