Did Madonna Brainwash A-Rod?
Well, if you're wanting converts to your "religion", perhaps this isn't the best press you could ask for. In what is turning out to be the never-ending story, Alex Rodriguez's former trainer is now alleging that the slugger is under the "spell" of Kabbalah, of which Madonna is an ardent convert:
In a bombshell interview with The Post, Dodd Romero - Rodriguez's former trainer and godfather to his two daughters who spent last week in Paris with Cynthia Rodriguez - said he and C-Rod believe the Yankee superstar has been gradually drawn away by Madonna's allure."Alex, God bless him, is lost," A-Rod's ex-pal lamented. "I think he got pulled in by the dark side, if you can say that nicely. He's totally brainwashed."
"She believes it's what ruined her marriage," Romero added.
He's so under the "spell" that he barely arrived in time for the birth of his second baby, then bolted before they could even clean her up properly:
Sources said Alex arrived in Miami just in time for the birth of Ella on April 21.He spent as little as 10 minutes with mother and child, then bolted back to New York and straight to Madonna's Central Park West pad, where he has allegedly spent a number of late nights.
Since then, A-Rod has seen his little daughter only a couple of times, said Romero.
He seems to be going through some sort of "cleansing practice":
He said A-Rod is going through a kabbalah practice called "cleaning out your vessel," which means getting out the old and taking in the new."To me that's a way of saying leave your family and move on," Romero said.
Just hearing the singer's music has an effect on the baseball player:
"He'd be in the gym and if a Madonna video would come on, he'd go into a trance," Romero said.And when A-Rod is driving in his car, he'll only listen to Madonna music, the trainer said.
And C-Rod's lawyer is claiming that the whole thing is an "affair of the heart", whatever that is:
[Earle] Lilly says that A-Rod was smitten with Madonna, but makes no claim of any sexual liaison. "The correct analysis is a relationship," he says. "Some people categorize an affair as something as sexual infidelity. We're not claming that. It's an affair of the heart."
Kabbalah has also been instrumental in A-Rod's choice of manager and decisions regarding his baseball career, most of which have spectacularly crashed and burned. Continued on the next page
