Sean Penn addresses rumor that he beat ex-wife Madonna with a baseball bat: ‘She’s someone I love’

Sean Penn cleared the air about his earlier romantic relationship with Madonna.

The Oscar winner, 63, instructed the New York Situations that he never ever bodily assaulted the “Vogue” singer, 65, when they have been married from 1985 to 1989.

Penn recalled the time that his residence was elevated by the SWAT workforce immediately after Madonna named the law enforcement for the reason that she was worried about guns in the household.

“I stated: ‘I’m not coming out. I’m going to finish my breakfast,’ ” Penn explained in the job interview printed Saturday.

“The up coming thing I realized, home windows ended up staying broken all all-around the household and they arrived in. They experienced me in handcuffs,” he included.

The “Mystic River” star claimed that at the time, there were being rumors he “trussed [Madonna] up like a turkey.” He also claimed that he when used a evening with a girl who questioned if he strike Madonna with a baseball bat.

“I did not know what the hell she was conversing about,” Penn explained.

He also explained Madonna as “someone I adore,” and as opposed their romantic relationship to his dynamic with his 2nd ex-spouse, actress Robin Wright, with whom he shares two kids.

“It turns out it’s a good deal a lot quicker to restore a friendship soon after divorce if there are not kids concerned,” claimed Penn. “It took Robin and I pretty a although. There was a ton of drama. Substantially a lot more essential to repair service it if there are little ones concerned, but no uncomplicated swing, correct?”

There were rumors that Penn abused Madonna again in the day, including when the “Hung Up” singer submitted to divorce Penn twice, very first in 1987 and then in 1989.

In 2015, their romantic relationship was in the headlines once more when “Empire” creator Lee Daniels referred to Penn though mentioning adult men in Hollywood who committed domestic abuse. Daniels, 64, was defending actor Terrence Howard from abuse statements by his ex-wives, and informed the Hollywood Reporter that Howard “ain’t completed absolutely nothing distinctive than Marlon Brando or Sean Penn.”

In response, Penn submitted a $10 million lawsuit against Daniels.

“Sean is dismayed at the gratuitous attacks and statements that have been made more than the yrs at his price, and he desires to choose a stand and appropriate the history,” Penn’s law firm reported in a assertion at the time.

Madonna testified on Penn’s behalf and denied that he at any time abused her when they were being married.

“While we surely experienced additional than a person heated argument all through our relationship, Sean has in no way struck me, ‘tied me up,’ or physically assaulted me, and any report to the contrary is absolutely outrageous, malicious, reckless, and bogus,” she wrote in a statement at the time, according to the NYT.

Penn dropped the lawsuit in 2016 vafter Daniels apologized for his remarks and donated to one of Penn’s charities.

That similar yr, Madonna praised Penn when she attended his yearly Support Haiti Residence gala.

“I want to say Sean, I appreciate you, from the minute that I laid eyes on you,” Madonna mentioned, ahead of jokingly adding, “I just would like you’d end smoking cigarettes.”