Madonna spoke again about her hospitalization: "God invited me to be with him and I said no" She thanked the doctor and the rest of the medical staff who helped her. during and after the days she spent in an induced coma.

"It was a strange thing not to feel like I was in control," she told the audience, of being sidelined by the drastic effects of a bacterial infection that landed her in intensive care last June. God himself appeared in the story of what she called an NDE, although she did not directly remember a divine presence.