Superstar Madonna was shocked by the negative response to her controversial adoption of a 13-month-old boy from Malawi, claiming people are more interested in "gossip" than real news. The Evita star was granted an interim adoption of David Banda last month, who had been living in an orphanage because his father Yohane could not afford to look after him. Several human rights groups have lodged an appeal against the adoption in Malawian courts, claiming the singer broke the African country's adoption laws. In an interview on NBC News, which was broadcast in the US, Madonna says, "When I had my daughter (Lourdes), people accused me that I did it as a publicity stunt. I expected that. I didn't expect to be accused of kidnapping, or of doing something illegal. I didn't expect to be demonized. With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world - the situation in Iraq, with Iran and North Korea - the fact that my adoption of a child who was living in an orphanage was the number one story for a week in the world... To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems, and our desire to have distractions and to be consumed with gossip."