“I didn’t really like that level of visibility and having to work it constantly. We all, as performers, work it to a certain degree, but I’m a very improvisational person, on stage and in my life, and I don’t like being tied down in having to be a certain way for my image.
What I tried to impart in our friendship is, ‘I’m really your friend, I’m not just somebody that’s passing through.’ And, I guess, for a while, we had a real friendship. But it’s hard for somebody like her. She doesn’t really want somebody around who reflects too much of who she is. Therefore, her relationships just don’t last.”
– Sandra Bernhard speaking to the Hot Takes and Deep Dives podcast about her former BFF Madonna.
God, Sandra has been dining on their ‘friendship not lasting’ since the 90s! Madonna has been friends with Debbie since before fame and with others for years…I suspect Sandra is a limelight hog and that doesn’t work with Leo Madonna. Think Sandra needs to get over it…closure!
Understandable however she wouldn’t have made the effort if she wasn’t a celebrity, how many other Italian Americans from Detroit but without status is she friends with?