Pink Claims Madonna ‘Doesn’t Like’ Her After Awkward 1st Meeting: She ‘Tried to Play Me’

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Despite Pink being a longtime fan of musical icon Madonna, the pair are not on the friendliest terms.“Madonna doesn’t like me,” Pink, 43, nonchalantly quipped during a Wednesday, February 22, appearance on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show. “I don’t know why.

Some people just don’t like me. … I do understand it [because] I’m a polarizing individual.”While Howard Stern pointed out that the Queen of Pop, 64, is also a “polarizing individual,” Pink (real name Alecia Moore) revealed that she “loved her” music when she was growing up.“She tried to kind of play me on [Live With] Regis and Kelly, and I’m not the one, so [it] didn’t work out,” the “Just Give Me a Reason” songstress recalled on Wednesday, referring to the 2003 episode of the daytime show that they were both booked on. “It’s just such a silly story.

I f–king love Madonna, and I love her no matter what. I still love her, no matter what.”She continued: “She was such an inspiration to me, but it sort of got twisted around that I was, like, fangirling and was dying to meet Madonna when in actuality, she invited me into her dressing room.

And so I just said a joke when Regis [Philbin] brought me out and [he] said, ‘I heard you were just falling over yourself backstage.