Pop icon Cyndi Lauper — who is about to embark on her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour — says that the record execs and media tried to pit her and Madonna against each other back in the '80s.

Cyndi Lauper has insisted she never actually feuded with Madonna in the 1980 s. Rumours of beef between the popstars began to circulate in 1983, around the time the Girls Just Want to Have Fun hitmaker released her debut album She's So Unusual and Madonna dropped her first record,

There's been a long held belief that two pop stars that rose to superstardom in the 80s have been involved in a four decade long feud.