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| Madonna and former boyfriend Brahim Zaibat. |
The 'Living For Love' hitmaker married Ritchie in 2000, but has confessed to feeling trapped by the Sherlock Holmes filmmaker during their seven-and-a-half-year marriage and believes Ritchie held her back artistically.
Speaking about their time together, she told British paperThe Sun: "I did find myself sometimes in a state of conflict. There were many times when I wanted to express myself as an artist in ways that I don't think my ex-husband felt comfortable with.
"There were times when I felt incarcerated. I wasn't really allowed to be myself."
The 56-year-old star - whose 13th studio album Rebel Heart is out this week - divorced Guy in 2008. She acknowledges compromise is a key part of any relationship, and says she needs to find a man who can fully accept what she does.
She added: "I think when you get married you have to be willing to make a lot of compromises and that's fair enough. I think that's the way it goes in relationships."
The iconic star also took a swipe at those who have criticised her for consistently dating younger men following her divorce from Ritchie - amongst them Brahim Zaibat and Timor Steffans, who were both in their twenties.
She said: "It's okay if Mick Jagger dates a 25-year-old girl but if I date a 25-year-old man I'm, you know ... it's ridiculous. It's so unfair, I mean, I don't get it."
The singer and parent who has Rocco, 14, with Guy, as well as David, 9, and Mercy, 5, who the pair adopted while together - previously referred to ageist attitudes during an interview with Out magazine.
"You're still categorised - you're still either a virgin or a whore. If you're a certain age, you're not allowed to express your s*xu@lity, be single, or date younger men," she said.
The singer went on to reveal that she used to wish she was gay, because men on of the opposite s*x didn't "get" her.
"I didn't feel like straight men understood me. They just wanted to have s*x with me," Madonna admitted. "Gay men understood me, and I felt comfortable around them. There was only that one problem, which is that they didn't want to have s*x with me!"