Sean Penn is denying the wild rumor that he physically abused his ex-wife Madonna, insisting: ‘She’s someone I love.’
He cleared the air on the issue again – while admitting one of their marital squabbles resulted in a SWAT team arriving at their home.
THE ALLEGED WILD RUMOUR
During their turbulent marriage in the 1980s, sensational claims surfaced that he tied her to a chair on one occasion and struck her with a baseball bat on another.
Both Madonna and Sean have staunchly denied he was ever violent with her, and she even testified on his behalf in a defamation lawsuit over the allegations.
Madonna supposedly called the police saying she was anxious about guns being in the house, and SWAT then burst onto the premises, smashing the windows and putting Sean ‘in handcuffs,’ he told the New York Times.
SWAT TEAM CAME KNOCKING …
‘I had a freaking SWAT team come into my house,’ Sean recalled in a new interview with the newspaper’s longtime columnist Maureen Dowd.
‘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,’ he said.
… THEN THEY DIVORCED
Sean and Madonna tied the knot in 1985, starting a rollercoaster marriage in which she filed for divorce in 1987, reconciled with him, then left him for good in 1989.
Eventually he got wind of the rumors that he had ‘trussed her up like a turkey,’ he said. ‘I didn’t know what “trussed up” meant, first.’
HIS SIDE OF STORY
After he enjoyed a ‘lovely night’ with a later girlfriend, he woke up the next morning, went out for a cigarette and found himself faced with her ‘looking at me like I killed her dog’ and asking ‘about this hitting Madonna in the head with a baseball bat.’
Sean said: ‘I didn’t know what the hell she was talking about. Now I think it’s fair to say that I’m not the biggest guy in the world. But if I hit Mike Tyson in the head with a baseball bat, he’s going to the hospital.’
