Ritchie: 'I still love retarded Madonna'

Guy Ritchie has said that he still loves his ex-wife Madonna.

The director married the pop superstar in 2000 but the couple divorced last year.

Ritchie told Esquire: "She's a manifester, if there ever was one. First-rate manifester. Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23-year-old, she'll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them.

"The woman is broad. And, of course, here you go, I still love her. But she's retarded too."

Of their divorce, he added: "You can't tell someone when they're getting divorced that their pain is an illusion. I'm f**king telling you, I feel it, I've been through that. You have too.

"No-one can say you don't feel that. That's the illusion of the illusion. The biggest fundamental is, you need a little ignorance."