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Madonna Opens Up About Near-Death Experience, Contracting Sepsis: ‘I Had No Strength’
Fans are only beginning to understand how close the world came to losing the “Material Girl”! On a new episode of Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast, Madonna revealed that she came close to death in 2023.
Explaining that she contracted a bacterial infection while rehearsing for her Celebration tour, the 67-year-old told the host, “One minute, I was alive and dancing around, and the next minute, I was in the [intensive care] unit of a hospital, and I woke up from being unconscious for four days.”
The “Like a Prayer” singer said after she was taken off the ventilator and sent home, she developed sepsis, adding, “It can kill you.”
The extreme reaction to an infection, which can cause the body to shut down. The singer, calling herself a “superwoman,” was shocked by her ill health. “I had no strength,” she said. “I had no energy.”
