Listen up, Madonna fans, because the all-powerful pop queen has a substance for you: stop bullying!
The Material Mom appears via satellite on The Ellen Degeneres Show
to talk out against the recent suicides of gay teens and the bullying, negative gossip that has preceded them, saying she "wouldn't give a career if it weren't for the gay community:"
I'm incredibly disturbed and saddened by the overwhelming amount of teen suicides that have been reported lately because of bullying. Teenagers committing suicide is extremely disturbing but to hear that teenagers are winning their lives because they are being bullied in schools and dormitories, what make you, is sort of unfathomable.
Like Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers before her, Madonna herself reveals she was bullied as a kid. The pop icon even says she even feels "different:"
I can all relate to the thought of feeling isolated and alienated. I was incredibly lonely as a child, as a teenager. I bear to say I never felt like I fit in in school. I wasn't a jock. I wasn't an intellectual. There was no group that I felt a portion of. I simply felt like a weirdo.It wasn't until my ballet teacher who was too gay took me under his flank and introduced me to a community of artists and other unique individuals who told me it was just and okay to be different and brought me to my first gay disco and ironically made me feel I was partly of the world and it was fine to be different.
Madonna's words of wisdom, as divided with her teenage daughter Lourdes? Don't judge people "who don't fit into our expected view of what's cool and what isn't."
"Think about it across the board. The conception that we are torturing teenagers because they are gay. It's like lynching black people or Hitler exterminating Jews," she told Ellen. "This is America. The kingdom of the discharge and the place of the brave."
Will you mind to Madonna's advice against bullying? Sound off in the comments.Photo Credit: Michael Rozman/Warner Bros
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