Madonna and Guy Ritchie leave the Kabbalah Center in New York City. (07/07/2006) Photo Credit: Splash News Washington, Dec 5 (ANI): It seems that all the hullabaloo surrounding pop singer Madonna’s adopted African baby has added to her already strained marriage to Guy Ritchie.
The couple has reportedly been seeing a marriage counselor in a desperate bid to save their six-year union.
The ‘ Material Girl’ and her film director husband have allegedly been seeing top marital therapist Tricia Barnes after their relationship hit "rock bottom", following the couple's controversial adoption.
"The marriage is near rock-bottom. They've been putting on a united front in public but behind closed doors their marriage has come under strain. The publicity surrounding the adoption has created a difficult atmosphere in their home. After a heart-to-heart they decided to seek the help of a marriage guidance specialist," a source was quoted by the Post Chronicle, as saying.
Guy and Madonna's relationship which saw a rough patch due to the singer's busy work schedule and her preoccupation with the mystic Jewish religion Kabbalah, reportedly came under a new strain after Guy felt left out from the highly-publicised adoption battle for fourteen-month-old David Banda.
"Madonna and Guy both dote on little David but it is her attitude that can irritate and upset Guy. She drove the whole adoption process from start to finish and Guy was left trailing in her slipstream just nodding and going along with things," The source added.
As well as David, the couple have two other children - six-year-old Rocco and Lourdes, ten, from Madonna's relationship with fitness trainer Carlos Leon. (ANI)