Madonna: 'I'm sad about my personal life'

Madonna has broken her silence about her split from Guy Ritchie,
revealing her grueling tour schedule is helping her through her personal troubles.

The couple, who announced their separation last month,
made their marriage break-up official on Friday, when a judge at London's High Court
approved Madonna's petition for divorce
on the grounds of Ritchie's "unreasonable behavior."
Their seven-and-a-half year union will be officially dissolved in six weeks time,
when they will be granted a decree absolute.
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But Madonna is refusing to let the turmoil in her love life effect
her hugely successful pop career.

In an interview with the Associated Press, she says her intense schedule
"provides a distraction that keeps me going,"
adding,
"I'm sad about my personal life, but I feel very blessed and very lucky
that I have the opportunity to do what I do in my professional life.
It would be horrible if I was just thinking about getting a divorce
and had nothing to do."

In addition to wrapping up her worldwide Sticky and Sweet tour,
the star is currently promoting her documentary "I Am Because We Are,"
about the poverty stricken African nation of Malawi.

Madonna and Ritchie were rumored to have split as early as this summer,
but have kept quiet about details of their divorce despite relentless media attention.

They have agreed to share custody of sons Rocco, 8, and David, 3,
while Madonna's 12-year-old daughter Lourdes, from a previous relationship,
will live with her mother.
(SFGate)