( CNN ) -- She is living in a hydrangea-free world , and she is a hydrangea-free girl . That 's right , hydrangea lovers -- it 's no accident that Keith Carradine wins Madonna 's heart with a bunch of daisies instead of your favorite flower in the `` Material Girl '' video . Madonna `` absolutely loathes hydrangeas , '' she said after she was given a huge purple one at the Venice Film Festival -- apparently not realizing her microphone was live . She smiled thinly and thanked the fan who gave her the flower as she was promoting her movie `` W.E . '' in Italy this week . But as she put it under the table , she told the person next to her she hates the flowers . `` He obviously does n't know that , '' she adds . A video of the remark has gone viral online , with more than 1 million views on YouTube already , and it 's apparently not winning her new fans -- it 's getting nearly twice as many `` dislikes '' as `` likes . '' A Madonna rep defended the star 's preferences . `` She 's entitled to like any flower she wants and she did n't want to hurt the feeling of the hydrangeas of the world , '' the rep said in a short statement . `` No disrespect to the hydrangeas lovers of the world but she prefers different types of flowers . ''
The pop star says she `` loathes '' the flowers after she gets a huge purple one in Venice . A video of the remark goes viral , getting more than a million views so far . A rep says Madonna did n't mean to hurt anyone 's feelings .