Madonna fell off a horse on Saturday and was treated for minor injuries.
This wouldn’t even really be major news except she went and blamed the paparazzi for causing the accident:
On Saturday evening, Liz Rosenberg said that the entertainer, 50, had already been released from Southampton Hospital after she had been thrown off a horse that had been startled [by] paparazzi. …
Rosenberg said the photographers had jumped out of the bushes to snap Madonna, who was visiting friends on Eastern Long Island for the weekend. Further medical tests are to be conducted, and doctors will continue to observe Madonna, the rep added.
Just one problem: There were no paparazzi in the vicinity. The police report contains no mention of intrusive paps, meaning Madonna didn’t think to blame them until later. The New York Daily News published some photos of the incident’s aftermath, but nothing that indicates a photographer was close enough to spook her horse.
Is it possible that Rosenberg is just trying to cover for Her Madgesty, now that this is her second riding accident resulting in injuries? Because if Madonna’s pride is bruised, you can bet someone will pay.
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Of COURSE there were paparazzi lurking about. Because we all care so desperately about every single thing that silicone-based pterodactyl ever does. I bet she can’t take a leak without swatting away at least five or six photographers. Whom she invited.
Poor horsie. He looks as though he’s hoping someone has some Lysol wipes handy for afterward.
Why would Madonna lie? Oh, yeah, because she is a narcissistic beyotch.
This, from your friends at the Enquirer:
The Material Mom, 50, has her day rigidly planned – and her children are not a big part of it, according to Ienco.
“She gets up and has a coffee, then she does two hours of yoga. Then there’s two hours of Pilates and exercise. That’s six days a week.
“After that, she deals with her e-mail, her calls and the rest of her business. And after that, she spends maybe half an hour with the kids. If Lourdes comes in and says, ‘I want to see Mom,’ she is told, ‘She’s doing yoga’ – and Lourdes knows she can’t disturb Mom.
“Madonna puts herself before her kids. When she adopted little David, he arrived at her home from Africa – and three hours later, she left to do Pilates.
“Wouldn’t you think she’d want to spend the entire day with her new son?”
Couldn’t she just get one of those annoying little dogs instead of adopting again? Or is she competing with Angelina Jolie.
I think the horse became spooked after he realized who was riding him. She is ugly enough to scare all living things.
When the story initially broke, I totally believed it. I’ve spent a lot of time around horses and know how easily spooked they can be, and I’ve also been unfortunate enough to spend a lot of time around paparazzi and know they are just stupid enough to do something like jumping out of the bushes in front of a horse. But now that it’s coming out that the paparazzi excuse is just a cover to hide Madge’s bruised ego…well, that makes total sense too. She is so ridiculous.
That poor horse on the picture is very much screaming with his eyes.
Why would paparazzi jump out of bushes anyway? “BOO! Just kidding, Madonna, but seriously, we just wanted you to know we were here, violating your privacy.” You’d think their job involves a lot more of lurking with zoom lenses and a lot less of charging horses en masse.
She has her hands clamped to his neck and by the way she is sitting, she appears to be uncomfortable or afraid – probably both. The horse is being led right at the bit which is a no-no. Looking at his eye (screaming with his eyes – heh) he is uncomfortable and afraid too. Looks like she is riding with sparkly shoes as well – safety stirrup or not – that is stupid. This was a riding accident waiting to happen.
What doesn’t Madonna lie about?
I did not realize that but she IS wearing stilleto heels. Even I know that is not kosher. What an idiot and that poor horse looks like he is about to run away as fast as he can. I guess that just shows you that she has no idea how to handle any kind of human being or animal.
Perhaps she needed a new riding accident to market as an edgy sexualized scene in her next stage show.
Wow, the horse in that pic is NOT happy with her. Her weight is forward, which tells the horse to go (or speed up) and some guy is holding the bit to keep him back. She’s got her hands where she can grab the saddle and hang on for dear life when they should be forward. I’ve seen pics of police horses working riot patrols that don’t look that tense.
And yeah, stiletto heels in stirrups is an extraordinarily unsafe idea. Right up there with not wearing a helmet on a tense horse in an urban location.
“Madonna fell off a horse on Saturday…” lmao that’s all I needed to read. That’s what happens to you when you get old – you just can’t keep up with a stallion any more, be it a horse or a certain Brazilian model.
That poor horse is probably wondering why there’s a large piece of gristle on his back.
There’s so much suffering in that poor animal’s eyes…That’s probably how Jesus Luz feels, too. *pictures Jesus Luz in a harness* ahhh…
Elle, your last sentence gives me hope. Hope for the future of Britain, the United States, and younger men everywhere.
So true, Vagrant– any pap in his or her right mind wouldn’t get close to Madge for fear she would exhibit some ‘roid rage. I bet she can crush things in her elbows like a nutcracker… cameras, human skulls…
I doubt that the photo provided by Deceiver shows Madonna on the horse that she recently fell from. Note there is no helmet, and the report says she was wearing one. I don’t care about Madonna, but you guys need to stop reaching for “deceiver” news where there isn’t any hyprocrisy going on. I keep checking this site for some real “hypocrisy” and you keep showing me stuff you’ve dredged up to keep your site going. No fun at all. Starting to reek of high school level bitchiness; where is the integrity? Talk the talk? Walk the walk…that’s what you SAY.
Darla’s partially right, that isn’t the horse that threw her.
But judging from the photo, this one seriously considered it.
I don’t see any claim on the part of Deceiver that that photo is of the horse in question, or that it depicts anything surrounding the incident in question. People commenting on that photo have been remarking, as you can see if you choose, that she doesn’t seem to be an expert rider. (I wouldn’t know, frankly.)
The issue at hand is the fact that Madonna tried to blame paparazzi for causing the accident, when they apparently weren’t even near her at the time.
It’s called Pamprin. Not expensive or anything. You’re welcome.
I’d say “You’ll be missed,” but I know you want us to keep it real.
So what difference does it make which horse is depicted in that photo? I don’t envy anything or anyone Madonna attempts to ride. The horse that threw Madonna was so awfully nice about it…if I were in that horse’s horseshoes not only would I have thrown her, I would have stepped on her, too. Several times.
OK, getting off of my high horse now, I will say that the photo provided of Madonna on horseback shows that she lacks equestrian skills in the extreme. By leaning forward and digging her high heels into the horse’s side, she is telling the horse in no uncertain terms to go forward, NOW, but the horse is being held back by a handler. The horse has no option but to go up into a rear in response to these conflicting messages, hence the crazed look on it’s face. And those shoes are really dangerous to be sticking into a stirrup. She looks to be in serious need of riding lessons, and maybe that’s what the horse thought right before he pitched her off. At least she didn’t blame the horse…
um. is she wearing fur trim while riding a horse in that picture? lawl.
While the picture does show a flaming display of bad horsemanship, Beige and Nati are right to point out that this isn’t about the picture Deceiver has chosen to accompany this story. It is also not really even necessarily proof that Madonna has no sense of horsemanship. I’m more inclined to accept that she is probably a decent rider and has paid a lot of money for lessons, but was way out of her comfort zone in that particular situation. Being on a horse in heels with some guy tugging my horse’s bit and photographers and whatever crew was present could make anyone panic a little and she probably forgot all that she had learned. But this isn’t about the picture.
Like TP, I didn’t think it was a stretch to believe the original story about the pap in the bushes spooking the horse. I’ve been thrown off a spooked horse for less and I know that I am not the only one. But now that the story has changed and there is evidence to support the pap’s side of the story, it’s just comical. I’m not shocked that Madonna and her people would lie about the incident. I’m sure Madonna isn’t the only celebrity that does. It’s that she got caught out in that lie. That’s freakin’ priceless.
Eh, she may not have BLAMED the horse, but you can bet that poor animal is now undergoing some ferocious Kabbalah training.
“that poor animal is now undergoing some ferocious Kabbalah training.”
Beige, if you mean Jesus Luz, I think I’ve seen the photos of him already wearing that red string on his wrist.
Oh dear, the freaky control chicky-poo who Mz. Helmsley hired to write the uber management doc on how to treat family, friends, & employees (including Equus caballus – whoa! how WEIRD is that?), needs to hang up her spurs. I’m sure at least one riding instructor let her know that control is an illusion when the only thing astride a 1000lb. beauty is EGO.
I shoulda been a Cowboy
I shoulda learned to rope and ride
Wearing my six-shooter, riding my pony on a cattle drive
Stealing young girl’s hearts
Just like Gene and Roy
Singing those campfire songs
I should’ve been a cowboy
Props to Toby Keith for “I Should Have Been a Cowboy”.
If there were no paparazzi there, then who took the pics of her on the NY Post’s Page 6 website, which were obviously shot through the bushes, and clearly show her on her horse moments before she fell? Doesn’t sound like they were “deceiving” anyone at all – there were obviously paparazzi there in the bushes, just like her rep stated.
Decide for yourself
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04192009/news/nationalnews/madonna_rein_pain_165129.htm