Madonna: "David is Amazing"
October 27th 2006 15:37
Pop star Madonna says that the boy she plans to adopt from Malawi, David, is "amazing."
"CHICAGO - Madonna said the 13-month-old boy she plans to adopt from the African country of Malawi is healthy and thriving in her London home, in an interview that aired Wednesday on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.'
The child, David Banda, was taken to London last week after Malawi's High Court granted Madonna and her husband, director Guy Ritchie, an interim adoption order.
Madonna said David was healthy, despite having overcome malaria and tuberculosis. The interview was taped Tuesday via satellite from London.
'David is amazing,' the 48-year-old pop star said. 'What really surprises me is how great my children are with him and how he's transitioned so easily from living in Africa in an orphanage to living in our house.'
David's father, Yohane Banda, has said he didn't understand the adoption meant he would give up custody of his son "for good." But in an interview posted Tuesday on Time magazine's Web site, Banda said he will not contest the adoption.
'I don't want my child, who is already gone, to come back,' he said. "I will be killing his future if I accept that."
Banda has said he is too poor to raise David.
Madonna said she met Banda, who thanked her for giving his son a new life. 'I sat in that room, I looked into that man's eyes,' she said."
"CHICAGO - Madonna said the 13-month-old boy she plans to adopt from the African country of Malawi is healthy and thriving in her London home, in an interview that aired Wednesday on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.'
The child, David Banda, was taken to London last week after Malawi's High Court granted Madonna and her husband, director Guy Ritchie, an interim adoption order.
Madonna said David was healthy, despite having overcome malaria and tuberculosis. The interview was taped Tuesday via satellite from London.
'David is amazing,' the 48-year-old pop star said. 'What really surprises me is how great my children are with him and how he's transitioned so easily from living in Africa in an orphanage to living in our house.'
David's father, Yohane Banda, has said he didn't understand the adoption meant he would give up custody of his son "for good." But in an interview posted Tuesday on Time magazine's Web site, Banda said he will not contest the adoption.
'I don't want my child, who is already gone, to come back,' he said. "I will be killing his future if I accept that."
Banda has said he is too poor to raise David.
Madonna said she met Banda, who thanked her for giving his son a new life. 'I sat in that room, I looked into that man's eyes,' she said."
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