The letter is believed to be sent to Madonna’s ex John Enos, addressed to “J”, was written in the 1990s. Madonna expressed her frustration of her career, comparing it to her “friend’s” Sharon Stone and Whitney Houston.
In the letter, Madonna says the less interesting Houston and Stone get all the praise, while the more original Madonna receives backlash for her provocative material:
“Maybe this is what black people felt like when Elvis Presley got huge,” she wrote. “It’s so unequivocally frustrating to read that Whitney Houston has the music career I wish I had and Sharon Stone has the film career I’ll never have. Not because I want to be these women because I’d rather die, but they’re so horribly mediocre and they’re always being held up as paragons of virtue and some sort of measuring stick to humiliate me”, said the letter, as quoted by Rolling Stone.
“Everything I do is so original and unique, and I put so much of myself into it, like my book and record, and it’s only brought me heartache and pain,” she continued. “I don’t think I can play the game to be accepted. I’m too intelligent. I have too much pride.”
Sharon Stone recently responded to the letter on Instagram, saying she’s not going to feed into the media trying the pit the two middle-aged blonde besties against each other:
Madonna had a long-standing feud with Whitney, during her reign. She once told Entertainment Tonight she had nightmares that Whitney’s song charted higher than hers on Billboard’ s Hot 100:
“I dreamt that I opened up Billboard Magazine and my song had dropped to Number Three and Whitney Houston’s had gone to Number One,” she said. “And then I went down to my voice teacher’s studio, where I take lessons, and I walked in, and she was humming Whitney Houston’s song. And I was devastated. This is what I’m dreaming about!”
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Whitney had Madonna shook. The woman had nightmares about Whitney ?? pic.twitter.com/p0eAfr7yyt
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The break up letter from Tupac was reportedly written in 1995 when Pac was in prison. He blamed the demise of their relationship on “society’s perception of a black man dating an older white woman”.
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