Madonna & Guy Ritchie’s marriage doomed after 2005 riding accident

Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s marriage was reportedly doomed since 2005, according to a source close to the family.

The source told the Sun that Madonna felt Guy offered a “complete lack of love and sympathy” when she broken eight bones falling off a horse on their Wiltshire estate: “If you can pinpoint an exact event or incident which spelled the death knell for them as a couple, Madonna’s horse-riding accident was it.

“Every other row the couple had following that boiled down to what happened that summer.”

“Madonna was in a huge amount of pain and expected Guy to drop everything to be at her bedside. In her mind that is what every husband should do to support his wife when she has been through a traumatic, possibly life-threatening, experience. But Guy approached the whole thing in what she now calls, ‘A very British way’.

“Instead of smothering her with sympathy he said, ‘Come on darling, you’re a tough bird. You’ll be back on the horse in no time’. Guy’s approach was that a few broken bones is no big deal - and that there was no point in making a drama out of a crisis.

“But in Madonna’s mind, she could have been killed, and she wanted the full works and to be lavished with love and attention. She was so furious at what she saw as Guy’s lack of support and cruelty that she told him she was wrong to marry him as he couldn’t possibly be her soulmate.

“Madonna is [now] convinced British men are light years behind Americans when it comes to emotional honesty and sophistication.”

The couple, who married in December 2000, confirmed their plans to divorce on Wednesday.