Madonna’s recent cold reception of a bouquet of hydrangeas at the Venice Film Festival—which you can relive, if you haven’t already done so several times, in the video below—immediately put a damper on an otherwise successful W.E. press junket, in which various critics asked Madonna how she made one of the dumbest movies of all time and still found room at the end to thank Nazi sympathizers. But after many pointed to Madonna’s “I absolutely loathe hydrangeas” comment as yet another example of her complete lack of graciousness, and her general calcification into a haughty, pretentious narcissist who’s every bit as insufferable as the lady-of-the-manor character her affected accent pretends to be, her publicist has rallied to her defense, saying it is well within Madonna's rights to dislike hydrangeas, as she is just a person, a person with discerning tastes when it comes to the flowers she would like bestowed upon her.