By Stone Martindale May 28, 2007, 18:10 GMT
Actor Kevin Costner has revealed years later that pop singer Madonna, who once castigated the actor for calling her show "neat" in her "Truth or Dare" film, apologized to him.
05/22/2007 - Kevin Costner - Mr. Brooks Los Angeles Premiere - Grauman's Chinese Theater - Hollywood, CA © David Gabber / Photorazzi
Kevin Costner went backstage over fifteen years ago, and told Madonna he tought her stage show was "neat" - which inspired Madonna to mockingly mimic throwing up by putting her finger down her throat saying: "Anybody who says my show is 'neat' has to go."
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Costner shared a story about the 1991 incident and the aftermath.
"Yeah, I was embarrassed by it and kind of hurt by it. I just went back there because I was asked to go back. And I found the best word that I could. I never called her on it or whatever.
"But she did a really beautiful thing. She was performing [in L.A.] about three or four years ago, so I decided to take my daughters to see her. I just thought this is somebody they should see. I didn't call anybody for tickets, I just got tickets and we went down....
"And about the third song in, the lights were down, and she said, 'I want to apologize to someone.' And all of a sudden my face starts to get hot.... And she says, 'I want to apologize to Kevin Costner.' She just said it very simply. Ninety-eight percent of that audience didn't know what she was talking about. But I really respected that, and it showed me the power of just keeping your own counsel for a long time.... Whatever possessed her, whatever was inside her, she came to her own decision. And a bigger thing came out of some kind of humiliation.
"I never wrote her to say thank you, but I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart, and that meant more to me than you could ever know."
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