Kit Roberts
Madonna's ex Jenny Shimizu has opened up about some details of their relationship in a new docuseries.
The series, called In Vogue: The 90s, sees Shimizu going into detail about her and Madonna's relationship, saying she felt like a 'high class hooker'.
At first glance you would be forgiven for assuming that would be a bad thing in a relationship.
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But Shimizu, 57, revealed that this was not just a positive thing, but actually part of the relationship that she found 'great'.
At the time Shimizu had been living as an openly gay model, and had certainly been enjoying herself with the singer in Europe.
And if you were wondering how you manage to sustain a relationship while one is working as a model and the other is a touring superstar, well, with a lot of jet setting it would seem!
Shimizu revealed that when the pair had been in relatively close proximity to each other she might get a call from Madonna to meet up, and not just to play Scrabble.
Describing how she would react if Madonna rang up, she said: "I mean, you’re not gonna say no to Madonna in the '90s."
She added: "Not only was it great feeling like a high class hooker — because really it was. You’d get a phone call like, ‘Hey can you meet me at my Paris show. You’re in Europe right?’
"So I’d be like, ‘Yeah, I’m just finishing Prada. Right after Prada I’ll catch a plane over.’ And I would. I’d go over to her hotel, to the Ritz, at like 4 in the morning, have sex, and then fly back to Milan.”
She joked: "My wife is going to kill me."
In a world of phone sex and saucy texting it's certainly a peek into a past where you had to catch a plane for a booty call.
Though you should put any notions of romance firmly out of your mind.
Shimizu made this abundantly clear in her memoir, hinting at why she had enjoyed feeling like a 'high class hooker'.
She wrote: "It wasn't about an emotional bond, it was about taking each other to the heights of sexual ecstasy.
"I loved the fact that I was at this woman's beck and call. It turned me on, being ordered to her room whenever she felt like sex."
And it seems that Madonna wasn't the only A-lister that Shimizu had a thing with, with no less a star than Angelina Jolie saying that she might even have married her.
In 1997 she reportedly told Girlfriends magazine: "I probably would have married Jenny Shimizu if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her."