As we discussed before Christmas, 15-year-old Rocco Ritchie refused to fly to NYC to spend the holiday with his mom. He wanted to – and did – spend Christmas with his dad, Guy Ritchie, and Guy’s family in England. By most accounts, Rocco gets along well with his dad and stepmom (Jacqui Ainsley) and he seems to like being a big half-brother to Guy and Jacqui’s young children. It also seems like Rocco had just had enough of his mom after working for months on Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour. Sources claim that Rocco and Madonna had some kind falling out around Thanksgiving/early December and that’s when Rocco went to his dad and refused to see his mom anymore. Radar has more details about what led to the crisis:
Madonna‘s son Rocco Ritchie will be home for Christmas — at least if the pop diva has her way! She went to court in New York Wednesday to get a judge’s order forcing him to fly back to New York for the holidays, and now, only RadarOnline.com has all the inside details about their explosive family feud. According to an insider, the trouble started when Rocco, 15, “ran away in Stockholm.” Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour, with son Rocco in tow, stopped there in mid-November.
“M and Rocco were having bad shouting matches,” the insider explained. “She’d be crying and yelling at him.”
Despite traveling with his mom on the tour for months, Rocco, “doesn’t want to be with her. He wants to be with this dad,” Guy Ritchie, the source said. So when the tour stopped in London the first week in December, Rocco took the opportunity to make a break for it.
“He took off for his dad’s house and hasn’t seen her since,” the source said. Swinging into action, Madonna, 57, fired his “manny” over it, according to the source, and had emergency meetings with her attorneys in London, to no avail.
“She couldn’t get an order that would require Rocco to return to her house,” the source said.
So… typical teenager vs mom stuff. I mean, you would be hard-pressed to find ANY 15-year-old who could stand spending that much time with his mom. Rocco worked on the Rebel Heart Tour since September, and he reportedly spent most of the summer with his mom too. Of course he wanted to spend time with his dad. But more than that, he wanted to get away from Madonna for a while. Some breathing room is not the worst thing.
Page Six says that the “cause” of the rift might be Madonna’s habit of posting embarrassing photos of Rocco on her social media as well. While I seriously doubt an international custodial crisis was triggered by Instagram, I do think that Madonna’s Instagrams of her son probably embarrassed the hell out of him. She’s a typical mom – she still thinks her kids are babies and that they are “hers” and she gets to say how their images are used. But that’s not how teenagers think. Lourdes got away (she’s in college now), so Madonna is clinging extra-hard to Rocco and he’s had enough. That’s my reading of it.
What else? Madonna posted more Instagrams of her kids over Christmas. Rocco posted Instagrams of himself in London, and when one of his friends wrote “Wtf is happening where you going?” in the comment section, Rocco wrote back: “Nothing! I’m staying here bro.” Not only does Guy have lawyers willing to fight for Rocco, but Rocco reportedly has his own independent lawyers working for his interests too. It’s probably going to be a big mess.
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