Is this really the best way to win custody of your son, Madonna?
SHE is in the midst of a fierce custody battle with her ex-husband over their teenage son.
So you might expect Madonna to put aside her usual provocative antics until it is resolved.
Instead, the singer has posted a series of increasingly bizarre images on social media site Instagram – claiming they ‘have nothing to do’ with her parenting abilities.
Just hours after a judge called on the 57year-old and her former spouse Guy Ritchie to put aside their differences, Madonna shared with her 6.3million followers a video of herself dressed as a clown dancing onstage. The caption read: ‘Tears of a clown.’
It followed a High Court hearing in London on Thursday in which Mr Justice Alistair MacDonald said it was ‘deeply regrettable’ the pair had resorted to lawyers about the fate of their 15-year-old son Rocco.
That same day, Madonna had posted an explicit cartoon showing a woman sitting on a man, using the caption to take a swipe at ‘women-hating idiots’.
She also said the image had ‘nothing to do with my ability to be. [SIC] A Good parent’.
The star has not made any public comment on the case, so her Instagram posts offer a hint at her state of mind. She had earlier shared a photo of herself wearing PVC underwear and holding a whip beside a horse, writing that she was preparing for her current tour in New Zealand.
On Wednesday – when the case was also heard in the Manhattan Supreme Court – she uploaded a quote attributed to artist Frida Kahlo which read: ‘I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.’
She accompanied it with the remark: ‘The artist always suffers.’
Her dispute with 47-year-old film director Ritchie, who she divorced in 2008 after eight years of marriage, centres on where Rocco should live.
The teenager had been staying with his mother in New York since the split, but while travelling with her on her Rebel Heart tour in December he refused to go back and stayed with his father in London.
The hearing in England resumes on March 10 while the New York case continues on June 1. On Thursday, Mr Justice MacDonald added that ‘an amicable negotiated resolution is evidently in Rocco’s best interests’.