Madonna lets her directorial instincts take over from her maternal ones when it comes to the art of movie making.

The material mom confessed to MTV News that she cut her own daughter, Lourdes’ scenes from her new flick W.E., which tells two parallel stories relating to the late and infamous Wallis Simpson.

Madonna is continuing her promotional blitz for W.E., and in an interview with the Wall Street Journal the controversial singer claims to identify with the subject of her movie, Wallis Simpson.

In her time, Simpson was a figure that was vilified by the masses after her affair with King Edward VIII led to his abdication of the throne of England, something Madonna, who has been vilified for her new movie, amongst other things, relates to.

When asked if she identifies with Simpson on a “personal level” the Queen of Pop admits: “Yes, to a certain extent. I think that she didn’t have the ability to defend herself the way I do now, or we do now. It was a different time. The media was different, and women didn’t have the choices that they do now. Even so, there were moments, there were lines in her letters that I thought, ‘I could have written that.’”