Madonna delayed her celebration tour last year following a near-death experience that landed her in the ICU and required weeks of rest after. Now on tour, she weighed in on the incident on Monday night.
The music icon paused her performance at the Kia Forum to look back on her shocking health scare in June of 2023 when she was rushed to a hospital after being found unresponsive as the result of what was later determined to be a serious bacterial infection.
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Then, Madonna landed in the ICU and had to be intubated. she further revealed that she was put into a medically induced coma as she battled for her life despite going into lung and kidney failure. Despite the life-threatening experience, she remained defiant.
‘This show every night is not so hard on me physically. It’s hard on me emotionally because I’m really telling you the story of my life,’ she told the audience, according to Just Jared. ‘My heart is on my sleeve. I’ve fallen off a lot of horses and broken a lot of bones… but nothing can stop me.’
Madonna also revealed the first word she allegedly said after waking from her four-day coma: ‘No!’ ‘I’m pretty sure that was God saying to me, “Do you want to come? Want to come up with me?”‘ To which she replied, ‘No!’ She also revealed that one of the doctors who had cared for her during her health scare was in the audience that night.
She recalled how he coached her through her difficult recovery period after she was discharged from the hospital. ‘I would call in every other day and ask [my doctor] why I didn’t have any energy, when was my energy going to come back? When was I going to feel like myself again? When can I go on tour again?’ she recalled.
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‘All he would say is, “Go outside in the sun” … It was so hard for me to walk from my house to the backyard and sit in the sun. I know that sounds insane, but it was difficult,’ Madonna admitted. ‘It’s a strange thing to finally not feel like I was in control, and that was my lesson… to let go.
She attributed her six kids with helping to get her back on her feet and in front of adoring audiences again. ‘My children are what really helped me pull through because they worked so hard,’ she shared. ‘I didn’t want to let them down, so I just set a date. And that date became reality.’
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