Shetty gives me the ick, and the stories I've heard about him and his shady shams and scams are gross.
I did think that, except for her lips, Mads looked the best she's looked in years. Simply because she left the mutton-dressed-as-lamb gear at home. Kudos to her for acting her age, even if it was just acting. Sharing vulnerabilities and things is definitely not consistent with the insane getups and antics of the past decades. She was a far cry from the Madonna on David Letterman. Or even the Madonna with waist length yarn-looking extensions and full alien face cavorting with her latest barely legal lil lamb escort at some event like a birthday just a year ago.
As for the Kabbalah stuff.... I'm not a fan of pop religion/cults, and Kabbalah infuriates me a bit since it appropriates MY religion (even though I'm a non-practicing, atheist, cultural-only jew). In Jewish tradition it's said that a man (and only a man) shouldn't learn esoterica like Kabbalah till he's 40 and has a full belly (interpreted to mean wisdom). That said, I took a Jewish Mysticism course in college, and it was about the kabbalah and just freaking fascinating. It made esoteric and supernatural stuff make sense. I didn't believe a word of it, but I came away thinking it was cool that there were some wacky ancient texts in an otherwise stodgy religion.
That is the long story of how I can understand Mads and other celebs falling for religiousish flavored gobbledy gook. Given the number of celebrity adherents to wackadoo high-pressure religious or self help groups (scientology, kabbalah, NXIVM, etc. etc.) something in them is prone to falling for this stuff. And when you're told things like "when you strip away material observation and truly see things like the creator, you can predict the future because you're seeing events as God does" (something from the kabbalistic Jewish Mysticism class I mentioned), you can see someone with great celebrity, treated like a deity thinking "yeah, that sounds about right" Of course it's all nonsense.
Then, the experiences of being a celebrity in these cultures just reinforces their self-perceived god-like nature.
I noped out 5 mins after the Kaballa guru joined them. That was an excruciating 5 mins.