‘Showbiz Tonight’ host Brooke Anderson spoke to Jerry Penacoli of ‘Extra’ and Lizzie Goodman of Blender magazine about just how ugly the divorce will get between Madonna and Guy Richie. Asked about Madonna’s decision to hire Fiona Shackleton, who previously represented Paul McCartney during his divorce from Heather Mills, as her lawyer, Goodman said, “She’s firing a warning shot with that hire there. You know it’s – if she’s in London, I mean, this is a dangerous, dangerous place to get divorced. There traditionally are very lucrative settlements for the less-wealthy party. So she’s going to need a pit bull on her team.”
As for reports Guy isn’t a fan of Kabbalah and it played a major factor in the couple’s split, Penacoli said, “Well, I’ll tell you, it was quite a shock to be sitting there with Guy Ritchie. And of course, we’ve all seen the pictures over the years of Guy and Madonna visiting the Kabbalah centers around the world, in New York, in Los Angeles, in London and other places, going to Israel. And so to hear him say – wow, ‘This is something that I don’t subscribe to. This is something that I don’t even understand,’ was really quite a shock. And so, yes, I mean, word is, too, that Madonna wanted to use Kabbalah because they really wanted to try to make this marriage work. In the end, they were trying to use Kabbalah or she was, at least, trying to use her belief system to try to make the marriage more cohesive. And in the end, it might be exactly the thing that brought it down.” Watch the segment below.