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When Madonna jetted into Malawi last week, she felt full of good intentions to lay to rest all the controversy surrounding her adoptions of Mercy and David.
But as the star was pictured planting a tree at the all-girl school being built by her Raising Malawi Foundation before being granted an audience with the country's president, she couldn't hide her loneliness.
No matter how hard she tries to keep busy, ex-husband Guy Ritchie's exit has created a huge void in her life and young boyfriend Jesus Luz is hardly the man to fill it.
Our source says: ‘Guy feels sorry for his ex and puts her mood swings down to stress. He's sympathetic, but also feels sorry for Jesus having to deal with it.
‘She's got another Christmas coming up when she'll basically be alone and she hates that. At the end of the day, she's a lonely, unfulfilled fifty-something woman.'
Last week, Madonna claimed she's happier now she's based in New York and even cracked a gag about her age.
‘I've adapted to my new life. My apartment's a bit small. I'm like the old woman who lived in
a shoe,' joked the 51-year-old.
But our source adds: ‘She's trying to make out that life's rosy, but it's far from that.'
Chris White

Read the full story about Madonna in Now magazine dated 9 November 2009 - out now!
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