Living in a Material World

Nov. 18, 2005 — -- It's been 22 years since Madonna released her first album, and the "Material Girl" has come a long way. With musician, actress, author and mother among the many hats she wears, it's hard to imagine what the mega-star's life is really like.

So "Primetime" gave Madonna a camera to shoot her daily life and then talked to her about her recent horseback riding accident, motherhood, religion and living in a material world.

In August of this year, Madonna was horseback riding with a friend at her English countryside home.

"It was a lovely ride," she told "Primetime's" Cynthia McFadden. "Everything was perfect. The sun was shining, sky was blue, the birds were singing."

When the friends reached the bottom of a hill on the star's property, her friend insisted Madonna try out the other horse.

She tried to dissuade her friend, saying she had jet lag and wasn't used to riding this kind of horse. But her friend insisted and Madonna finally gave in.

"He just went crazy," she said. "I said, 'I can't handle this, I'm going down!'"

And down she went. But for Madonna, even getting thrown from a horse was no reason to accept defeat.

"I'm like, 'I'm graceful, I'm a dancer, I'm gonna land, I'm gonna roll, it's gonna be fine,'" she said.

But when she tried to stand up, Madonna says it felt like her whole skeleton collapsed. She fainted, but she says she tried to fight it -- it was her birthday and she wasn't going to be put out of commission that easily.

In the end though, she had to succumb to the fact that she was in pretty bad shape.

"I broke my collarbone," she said. "I broke my scapula in two places. I broke four ribs, and I broke my left knuckle."

She says she was in an intense amount of pain. So much so that tears streamed down her face, even with her husband, Guy Ritchie, close by for comfort.

"I was in so much pain, I think I must have screamed at him for so long that he left the room --