Don’t Cry For David Banda…


Yohane Banda, the man who allowed Madonna to adopt his child and then used the situation repeatedly to bask in the media spotlight, is back at it after hearing news of the singer’s divorce from Guy Ritchie.

Instead of offering up a respectable “no comment,” the father had this to say:

I am still a poor farmer with nothing to offer, but maybe he’d be better off back with us. This woman, Madonna, told me herself that David was beautiful and made her happy and she promised to take care of him. Now I see him in a big bewildering crowd in the street with people pushing and shoving, and many cameras around, and without a mother and father to hold his hand. I’m feeling bad for him.

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