Madonna posted a rare snap of herself with most of her children as ex-husband Sean Penn dragged her over their marriage in a new interview.

The 66-year-old Queen of Pop – who is partnering with Netflix on a biographical limited series – took to Instagram on Sunday to commemorate Mother’s Day with a photo with five of her six children.

Madonna posed in front of a tree alongside  Lourdes, 28, David, 19, Mercy, 19, and 12-year-old twins Stella and Estere.

The only child who was missing was her 24-year-old son with ex-husband Guy Richie, Rocco.

Madonna shared the gallery of snaps with a lengthy caption about their time together as she wrote to her near 20million followers: ‘I spent Mother’s Day weekend with 5 of my 6 children. Sunshine laughter, horseback riding. soccer, and the sound of music!

‘The best gift they gave me was the gift of not arguing and being loving to one another.

Madonna took to Instagram on Sunday to commemorate Mother’s Day with a photo with five of her six children

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The Like A Prayer hitmaker concluded: ‘Motherhood could never be described with a few words. Nothing can prepare you.

‘Happy Mother’s Day !! To All the Women out there doing the Heavy Lifting !’

 This came as her 64-year-old ex husband Sean Penn appeared on the Louis Theroux Podcast where he slammed their four year marriage.

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.

Two years later in 1991 Madonna’s documentary titled Truth Or Dare was released as she referred to the actor as ‘the love of her life.’

Louis asked Sean if he had seen the documentary and if he recalled that specific quote to which the actor responded that he did.

The only child who was missing was her 24-year-old son with ex-husband Guy Richie, Rocco (seen in London last month)

The Fast Times At Ridgemont High actor said: ‘I do. I remember what she said. She’s very sweet. Look, she’s been a good friend for a lot of years.’

Sean then went on to trash their marriage while revealing that they were able to resume their friendship relatively quickly.

The actor explained: ‘It didn’t take us long to realize that we had mistaken a good first date for a wedding partner. It didn’t take us long to recover after we got divorced, maybe a year, in a friendship.

‘I have a lot of fond memories of it – it’s not all jail. But there was a lot of alcohol and she’d be fairly accusing me of that.’

 In June 2024, Sean once again denied the wild rumor that he physically abused his ex-wife Madonna, insisting: ‘She’s someone I love.’

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.

At the time, Sean cleared the air on the issue again – while admitting one of their marital squabbles resulted in a SWAT team arriving at their home.

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This came as her 64-year-old ex husband Sean Penn appeared on the Louis Theroux Podcast where he slammed their four year marriage

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 (they are seen together in 1986 film Shanghai surprise)

Two years later in 1991 Madonna’s documentary titled Truth Or Dare was released as she referred to the actor as ‘the love of her life’

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.

‘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.

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.’

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.’

He and Madonna now enjoy an amicable rapport, partly because, he said: ‘It turns out it’s a lot quicker to repair a friendship after divorce if there are not kids involved.’

In 2015, Madonna testified that Sean never abused her, supporting his $10 million defamation lawsuit against Empire creator Lee Daniels.

The Fast Times At Ridgemont High actor said: ‘I do. I remember what she said. She’s very sweet. Look, she’s been a good friend for a lot of years’

Sean trashed their marriage while revealing that they were able to resume their friendship relatively quickly as he explained: ‘It didn’t take us long to realize that we had mistaken a good first date for a wedding partner. It didn’t take us long to recover after we got divorced, maybe a year, in a friendship. ‘I have a lot of fond memories of it – it’s not all jail. But there was a lot of alcohol and she’d be fairly accusing me of that’; they are seen in September 2013

The fracas began after Empire star Terrance Howard admitted in an interview that he had slapped his wife in front of their children.

Amid the explosive controversy that resulted, Lee sprang to Terrance’s defense, arguing that he had never done what ‘Marlon Brando or Sean Penn’ did.

Sean sued Lee over the remark and Madonna submitted an affidavit on his behalf, specifically denying the allegations about the baseball bat and being tied up.

‘While we certainly had more than one heated argument during our marriage, Sean has never struck me, “tied me up” or physically assaulted me, and any report to the contrary is completely outrageous, malicious, reckless and false,’ she asserted.

The lawsuit eventually ended with a settlement, in which Lee was forced to issue a public apology for his original comments and also had to make a donation to Sean’s disaster relief organization CORE.