Madonna refuted divorce rumors that have plagued her marriage to Guy Ritchie in an exclusive statement to People."My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce," she stated.
She also addressed rumors that she was having an affair with Major League Baseball's Alex Rodriguez, and that she was converting him to Kabbalah.
"I know Alex Rodriguez through Guy Oseary, who manages both of us," she said in the statement. "I brought my kids to a Yankee game. I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez. I have nothing to do with the state of his marriage or what spiritual path he may choose to study."
According to sources, the rumors about the pop star and the New York Yankees' third baseman were exacerbated when Rodriguez's wife blamed the affair on the end of her marriage.
Madonna has been no stranger to rumors and gossip throughout her long career.
"I have learned over the years not to take accusations and the many false reports about me very seriously," she said in the statement. "I also appreciate how fiction and fact seem to be perceived as one and the same by people who read both newspapers and the internet."
