Madonna has revealed further details of the medical emergency that left her family and fans fearing for her life earlier this year.
In June, the pop star, 65, was due to kick off her Celebration Tour in Canada when she was discovered passed out on the bathroom floor of her New York home and rushed to hospital with a “serious bacterial infection”.
The Like A Virgin hitmaker then spent several days in the intensive care unit (ICU) where her condition was said to be uncertain.
Unsurprisingly, the initial tour dates were put on hold, but she later resumed her global tour in October in Europe.
During her most recent stop in Brooklyn, New York on December 16, Madonna took a moment to thank “some very important people” who were by her side in hospital.
“I passed out on my bathroom floor; I woke up in the ICU – thank you, Siobhan, she saved my life,” the Queen of Pop can be heard telling the crowd in a video posted on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
She then explained that she was put into “an induced coma for 48 hours”, adding that the only voice she heard during that time was that of her Kabbalah teacher.
“I heard him say, ‘Squeeze my hand’, that’s it,” Madonna said, before joking that she “had to almost die to get all my kids in one room”.
Madonna has six children – Lourdes Leon, 26, Rocco Ritchie, 22, 17-year-old David Banda, whom she adopted in 2006, 17-year-old Chifundo “Mercy” James, whom she adopted in 2009, and 10-year-old twins Stella and Estere, whom she adopted in 2017.
