Giorgio Armani didn’t have the most flattering words about Madonna after her Brit Awards fall, insinuating she could’ve prevented it if she wasn’t acting like a diva.

Madonna fell down a flight of stairs during her performance of “Living For Love” last week.

Backstage at his show at Milan Fashion Week, Armani – who created the cape Madonna wore during the perfornace - told The AP, “Madonna, as we all know, is very difficult.”

He said she wanted the cape to be tied instead of hooked, which was ultimately her downfall. “That's all there was to it,” he said.

Us Weekly reports Madonna told a different story during her appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show after the fall.

"I was told to tie my cape and start much further back and I had to walk further, and everyone was worried my cape would slide off, so they tied it really tight around my neck," she said. "I got to the top of the stairs and I pulled the silky string, and it wouldn't come undone…I had two choices: I could either be strangled or fall, and I chose to fall."

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