Via the Post -

Alex Rodriguez’s heartbroken wife Cynthia believes her hubby has been “brainwashed” by kabbalah-pushing pop icon Madonna and lured away from his family, an A-Rod confidant said yesterday.

In a bombshell interview with The Post, Dodd Romero – Rodriguez’s former trainer and godfather to his two daughters who spent last week in Paris with Cynthia Rodriguez – said he and C-Rod believe the Yankee superstar has been gradually drawn away by Madonna’s allure.

“Alex, God bless him, is lost,” A-Rod’s ex-pal lamented. “I think he got pulled in by the dark side, if you can say that nicely. He’s totally brainwashed.”

“She believes it’s what ruined her marriage,” Romero added.

A-Rod’s first encounters with the Material Mom came through their common friend, Miami nightclub owner Ingrid Casares, Romero said.

Once Madonna and A-Rod started working out together in New York in November 2007, he was under the complete spell of kabbalah’s most famous practitioner, the slugger’s confidant said.

“He’s more infatuated with the fact he’s with an icon instead of realizing what’s important, which is family and truth,” said Romero, 46.

“Alex [is acting like] he wants a divorce.”

The trainer said he severed ties with A-Rod shortly after Cynthia gave birth to their second child this spring.

Cutting off his relationship with A-Rod “was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do, because he’s like a brother to me,” Romero said.

He said A-Rod is going through a kabbalah practice called “cleaning out your vessel,” which means getting out the old and taking in the new.

“To me that’s a way of saying leave your family and move on,” Romero said.

After hooking up with Madonna, A-Rod was soon frequenting Manhattan’s Kabbalah Centre – where he’s been spotted recently – in an all-white uniform, the sect’s symbol of purity.

The temple on East 48th Street near Lexington Avenue is the same center that Madonna and her family visited yesterday.

“I’ve seen him walking out of it,” said doorman Andrew Rodriguez (no relation to A-Rod), who works at a building next door to the center.

And even when A-Rod wasn’t with Madonna, she was there in spirit, according to Romero.

“He’d be in the gym and if a Madonna video would come on, he’d go into a trance,” Romero said.

And when A-Rod is driving in his car, he’ll only listen to Madonna music, the trainer said.

The third baseman’s flirtation with Madonna and her faith led her to introduce him to fellow kabbalah practitioner Guy Oseary – manager of Madonna and other music stars – at a Los Angeles kabbalah center.

Rodriguez and Oseary became fast friends, and Oseary’s influence over A-Rod led the Yankee to a highly publicized breakup with agent Scott Boras, baseball’s most powerful player representative, according to a source with knowledge of the split.

I can just see it now…when the Yankees make their next visit to Fenway Park…A-Rod steps into the batter’s box to face the Red Sox…and, at that moment…39,000 Red Sox fans, in unison, begin to sing…

…Living in a material world…
…And I am a material girl…
…You know that we are living in a material world…
…And I am a material girl…