Madonna Picked Guy Ritchie Apart At First

When Sting and wife Trudi Styler introduced Madonna to Guy Ritchie in 1998, the Material Girl instantly knew the match was perfect. Yet she approached with caution, first idealizing him, then finding defects. “I started to pick him apart and look for all the faults,” she tells Edna Gundersen of USA Today. “I had a daughter and had just ended a relationship. I thought, he lives in London, I live in America; it’s not going to work. I had to dig my way through all the roadblocks I built.” Though both are strong-willed, the couple is a study in contrasts. “He’s as disorganized as I am organized,” she says. “He loves to live in a very spontaneous way, and I’m careful and scheduled. He gets me to go off on a holiday, and he taught me to appreciate nature.” Read more.