Madonna Reveals the First Word She Said After Waking Up from a 4-Day Coma Last Summer

Madonna is grateful for her health.

While reflecting on stage at the first of her five sold-out Celebration World Tour shows at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, the Queen of Pop opened up about her hospitalization last year after a serious bacterial infection.

“This show every night is actually not that hard on me physically. It’s hard on me emotionally because I’m really telling you the story of my life. My heart is on my sleeve,” she said. “I’ve fallen off a lot of horses and broken a lot of bones…but nothing can stop me.”

Madonna performs in London in October 2023.

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Speaking about her health scare last summer, the singer called it a “near-death experience” and revealed the “first word” she said was “No” when she woke up from an induced coma after four days.

“I’m pretty sure that’s what God said to me, ‘Do you want to come? Do you want to come up with me?’ Not‘ Madonna continued, making the audience laugh.

She later recalled a conversation she had with her longtime manager Guy Oseary while she was in the hospital. “He said, ‘Well, when do you think you want to go back on tour?’ I took the oxygen out of my nose. I looked at him and said, ‘in two fucking months!’ she said. “I just said. Sometimes you just have to say s— [and] throw it into space. And it’s happening.”

Madonna with daughter Mercy James in London in October 2023.

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Madonna also greeted one of her doctors who was present at the concert.

“I would call every other day and ask [my doctor] why didn’t I have energy, when will my energy come back? When will I feel like myself again? When can I go on tour again?” she said. “All he would say is, ‘Go outside in the sun’ … It was so hard for me to walk from my house to my yard and sit in the sun. I know it sounds crazy, but it was hard.”

Madonna told fans that the terrifying ordeal forced her to slow down. “It’s a strange thing to finally not feel in control, and that was my lesson: to let go.”

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Ultimately, the superstar said, it was her loved ones who gave her the strength to return to the stage. “My kids are what really kept me going because they worked so hard. I didn’t want to let them down, so I just set a date. And that date became a reality,” she said.

As throughout her tour, Madonna’s children showcased their talents on stage throughout the show, where stars such as Dita Von Teese were spotted dancing and singing in the audience.

Mercy joined her mom on the piano for “Bad Girl,” earning a rapturous ovation from the crowd. Estere was the deejay and pumped up the crowd during the crowd favorite “Vogue”, Stella appeared on stage during “Don’t Tell Me” and David sang and played guitar on “Mother and Father”.

Madonna with daughters Esther and Lourdes in October 2023 in London.

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Last October, the Grammy winner, 65, kicked off her long-awaited tour at London’s O2 Arena, where she also spoke about her journey back to the stage.

“I didn’t think I would make it. Neither did my doctors. That’s why I woke up with all the children sitting around me,” she said about her children Lourdes (27), Rocco (23), David (18) and Mercy, 18, and twins Stella and Esther, 11. “But the angels protected me, and my children were there. And my children always save me every time.”

Madonna’s tour is scheduled to last until the end of April, when she will wrap up her latest musical extravaganza with five shows at Mexico City’s Palacio De Los Deportes.

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