Sean Penn DENIES wild rumor he beat Madonna with a baseball bat and insists she is ‘someone I love’… while admitting one of their fights ended with SWAT bursting into their house

Sean Penn has once again denied the wild rumor that he physically abused his ex-wife Madonna, insisting: ‘She is someone I love.’

During their turbulent marriage in the 1980s, sensational claims emerged that he had tied her to a chair on one occasion and beaten her with a baseball bat on other occasions.

Both Madonna and Sean have strongly denied that he was ever violent towards her, and she even testified on his behalf in a defamation lawsuit over the allegations.

Now Sean, 63, has cleared up the issue again – as he admitted one of their marital arguments led to a SWAT team arriving at their home.

Madonna reportedly called the police and said she was concerned about the presence of weapons in the house. SWAT then stormed the building, smashed the windows and “handcuffed” Sean, he told police. New York Times.

Both Madonna and Sean have categorically denied that he was ever violent towards her, and she even testified on his behalf in a defamation lawsuit over the allegations; pictured 1988

“A goddamn SWAT team came into my house,” Sean recalled in a new interview with newspaper columnist Maureen Dowd.

‘I said, ‘I’m not coming out. I’m going to finish my breakfast.’ The next thing I knew, windows were being smashed all over the house and they were coming in,” he said.

Sean and Madonna married in 1985 and embarked on a roller coaster marriage in which she filed for divorce in 1987, reconciled with him and then left him for good in 1989.

Eventually, he got wind of the rumors that he had her “tied up like a turkey,” he said. “I didn’t know what ‘tied up’ meant at first.”

After having a “wonderful night” with a later girlfriend, he woke up the next morning, went for a cigarette and was confronted by her “looking at me as if I had killed her dog” and asking “about the fact that Madonna in the head with a baseball bat.’

Sean said, “I didn’t know what she was talking about. Now I think it’s fair to say that I’m not the greatest man in the world. But if I hit Mike Tyson in the head with a baseball bat, he’ll go to the hospital.”

He and Madonna are now on friendly terms, in part because, he said, “It turns out that after a divorce, it’s much quicker to re-establish a friendship if there are no children involved.”

Sean had a harder time mending fences with his second ex-wife Robin Wright, with whom he shares daughter Dylan, 33, and son Hopper, 30.

Sean and Madonna married in 1985 and began a rollercoaster marriage in which she filed for divorce in 1987, reconciled with him, and then left him for good in 1989; pictured 1987

He and Madonna are now on friendly terms, in part because he said, “It turns out that after a divorce, it’s much quicker to re-establish a friendship if there are no children involved”; pictured 2016

Now Sean, 63, has cleared up the rumors again – as he admitted that one of their marital arguments led to a SWAT team arriving at their home; pictured 1986

Madonna and Sean are pictured in New York in 1986 after a rehearsal for their play Goose And Tom Tom, which also starred Harvey Keitel

‘It took a while for Robin and I. There was a lot of drama. It’s much more important to fix it when there are children involved, but that’s not easy, right?’ he said.

In 2015, Madonna testified that Sean never abused her, in support of his $10 million defamation lawsuit against Empire creator Lee Daniels.

The feud started after Empire star Terrance Howard admitted in an interview that he had hit his wife in front of their children.

Amid the resulting explosive controversy, Lee came to Terrance’s defense, arguing that he never did what “Marlon Brando or Sean Penn” did.

Sean sued Lee over the comment and Madonna filed an affidavit on his behalf, specifically denying the allegations about the baseball bat and being tied up.

“While we have certainly had more than one heated argument during our marriage, Sean has never hit, ‘tied up’ or physically abused me, and any report to the contrary is completely outrageous, malicious, reckless and false,” she claimed.

The lawsuit ultimately ended with a settlement, with Lee being forced to publicly apologize for his original comments and also make a donation to Sean’s disaster relief organization CORE.