Madonna recounts her near-death experience at a concert: “I didn't know when I could get up again”

“I have fallen off many horses and broken many bones.

I have a titanium hip.

The list goes on and on… But nothing can stop me.”

With guitar in hand, and to the sound of an acoustic version of her hit

De ella Burnin' Up,

Madonna surprised her always faithful audience on the night of Monday, March 4, by opening up about what she defines as an “experience close to death".

In June 2024, the American singer was urgently admitted to a New York hospital for a serious bacterial infection that left her in an induced coma for four days, forcing her to postpone her world tour.

That day, the queen of pop inaugurated the five concerts she offers at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles (California) on her tour

The Celebration Tour.

―with tickets sold out for months―, and among the audience were the doctors and health workers who helped her overcome the trance.

“To everyone who is here and who took care of me and listened to all my endless complaints and needs for predictions that I couldn't have.

You are patient and kind, and continue to be.

You still help me take care of everyone I know who is sick.

Thank you all very much, wherever you are.”

The artist, 65, continued her speech by sending a thank you to “a very special man in the audience”: Dr. Agus, who, apart from helping her during her days of illness, was a special support.

“She has endured so many entertaining phone calls from me.

When I was sick this summer and literally couldn't walk from my bed to the bathroom, she called him every other day and asked him why she had no energy.

When would my energy return?

When would I feel like myself again?

When could you go on tour again?

When, when, when, when, when, when, when?

And all she said was, 'Go out into the sun.'

Madonna, who has never been a lover of sunlight, claims that she responded: “Have you seen my skin?”

The doctor's response was: “You need vitamin D to keep your kidneys working.”

“I hate the sun, but I did it anyway, and it was very difficult for me to walk from my house to the backyard and sit in the sun.

“I know it sounds crazy, but it was difficult and I didn't know when I could get up again, be myself again, when I would get my energy back,” she revealed in her words of gratitude, in which she also revealed that it was difficult for her not to have control. .

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Even God himself snuck into the singer's speech.

Madonna, who has been the creator of world-famous hits like

Like a Prayer

or

La Isla Bonita

, revealed that the first word that came out of her mouth after waking up from a coma was “no.”

“I'm pretty sure it was God telling me, 'Do you want to come?' And of course not,” she joked to laughter from the audience.

Despite the severity, the queen of pop did not give up at any time.

As she said in her brief sermon, during the most difficult days in the hospital, her

manager

Guy Oseary asked her if she could go on stage again, but she was very clear: “I took the oxygen out of my nose, I looked at it and I said, 'In two damn months!

I swear to god'.

“Sometimes you just have to say shit, put it out into the universe and it happens.”

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The singer's children, Lourdes, Rocco, David, Mercy and the twins Estere and Stella, have been fundamental support for the artist throughout the recovery process.

In the almost 60 concerts already held, everyone, except Rocco, has had a leading role in the shows, in which they have taken the opportunity to show their talents in front of the crowd of their mother's fans.

Madonna also showed her motherly love in Monday's speech in Los Angeles: “My children are the ones who really helped me get ahead, because they worked so hard and… I didn't want to let them down.

So I just set a date and that date became a reality.

And I didn't want to disappoint my fans either.”

Madonna doesn't really like to talk about her illness.

After playing in 27 cities in Europe, and 31 in America, the artist has only mentioned the topic twice: this Monday, March 4, in Los Angeles, and at her tour opening in London on October 14, 2023: “I didn't think I was going to make it.

Neither do my doctors.

That's why I woke up with all my children sitting around me.”

She still has 19 concerts left to close a tour in which she pays tribute to her musical career: “My life has obviously been a roller coaster... artistic, emotional, mental and physical.

I do this show every night, and it's not that hard on me physically.

It's hard for me emotionally because I'm really telling you my life story.

“I wear my heart on my sleeve.”