LONDON — Months after their marriage was rumored to be in trouble, new reports are surfacing that Madonna and Guy Ritchie are headed for a divorce.
According to a front page story in Britain's The Sun newspaper, the couple is planning to call it quits on their eight-year marriage because they "can't bear to live with the pretence any longer."
The 50-year-old Madonna, who was married to actor-director Sean Penn prior to her nuptials with Ritchie, is currently in the midst of her "Sticky and Sweet" concert tour in the U.S., while Ritchie, 40, has been busy filming "Sherlock Holmes" in France.
Sources tell the Sun the couple has been arguing over the amount of time each spends on their individual careers, as well as Madonna's desires to adopt again. Madonna and Ritchie have two children, biological son Rocco, 8, and David, 2, whom they adopted in 2006. The pop star also has a daughter, Lourdes, 12, from a previous relationship with personal trainer Carlos Leon.
"It's very sad. They were a great couple and brilliant parents. They just couldn't live together any more," an insider reveals.
"Despite huge attempts to patch things up, they both knew deep down that divorce was in the cards," continues the source. "It wasn't a matter of 'if' but 'when.' They tried hard over the past few months, but their fighting was getting out of control."
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