Sean Penn opened up about his relationship with ex-wife Madonna, calling her "someone I love" while firmly denying long-standing allegations that he abused her with a baseball bat.
While conversing with The NewYork Times, Penn shared “I had a freaking SWAT team come into my house,” adding that the Popular singer had told police she was worried about guns in the house.
He added, “I said: ‘I’m not coming out. I’m going to finish my breakfast.’ The next thing I knew, windows were being broken all around the house and they came in.”
The Milk star continued, “They had me in handcuffs.”
Despite the bad blood between them, Penn said “She’s someone I love.”
He noted, “It turns out it’s a lot quicker to repair a friendship after divorce if there are not kids involved. It took [ex-wife Robin Wright] and I quite a while. There was a lot of drama. Much more important to repair it if there are kids involved, but no easy swing, right?”
To note, Penn and Madonna tied the knot from 1985 until 1989.
The Frozen singer initially filed for divorce from Penn in 1987, but she then withdrew the documents and filed again two years later.
The reports that emerged at the time Madonna filed the lawsuit said that Penn had not only physically abused her beating her with a baseball bat, but had also tied her to a chair for hours on end.
