Anderson Cooper recalls getting bent over and “humped” by Madonna: “It was mortifying”
Anderson Cooper is a Madonna superfan but even he has his limits.Cooper has been good friends with Madonna for years, but he’s now revealed how one of their run-ins turned out to be too close for comfort for the CNN anchor.On the latest episode of Kelly Ripa’s podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera, the 56-year-old reminisced with Ripa about the various times they went to see Madonna concerts together and quickly realized they remembered things slightly differently.“What was the year we went to see her in Paris?
That was so fun,” Cooper said of attending the MDMA tour in 2012, recalling how they were in the Golden Triangle mosh pit with other other hardcore Madonna fans.But his recollection turned more dour when Ripa brought up seeing the “Vogue” singer in New York a few years later.“Do you remember the time you were plucked out of the stage in Brooklyn?” Ripa gleefully asked in regards to seeing Madonna’s Rebel Heart tour in 2015 at the Barclays Center.“Oh god.
That I chose to forget,” Cooper said. “I loved the whole idea of it, loved the experience of it, I don’t love the video that exists of it.”A post shared by Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper)Each night on the Rebel Heart tour, Madonna would invite someone from the audience to be her “Unapologetic Bitch” and would proceed to playfully bend them over and spank them on stage, before gifting them with a banana as a parting gift.
Don’t ask!Among the celebs that took a turn being Madonna’s “bitch” throughout the tour were Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Diplo, Idris Elba, Amy Schumer, and Cooper.“I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” Cooper said of his awkward experience. “I was terrible.
