Madonna Recalls ‘Near-Death’ Health Scare During LA Tour Stop: Reveals First Word Upon Waking from Coma.

During her inaugural Celebration Tour show in Los Angeles on Monday night, Madonna confronted her mortality head-on. The 65-year-old music legend halted her performance at the Kia Forum to reflect on a harrowing health crisis in June 2023, when she was hospitalized after being discovered unresponsive due to a severe bacterial infection. Admitted to the ICU and requiring intubation, Madonna disclosed later that she endured a medically induced coma while grappling with life-threatening lung and kidney failure.

Despite her brush with death, Madonna maintained her defiance. “This show every night is not really so hard on me physically. It’s hard on me emotionally because I’m really telling you the story of my life,” she shared with the audience, as reported by Just Jared. “My heart is on my sleeve. I’ve fallen off a lot of horses and broken a lot of bones… but nothing can stop me.”

Madonna then shared the purported first word she uttered upon awakening from her four-day coma: ‘No!’

“I’m pretty sure that was God saying to me, ‘Do you want to come? Want to come up with me?'” she reflected. “To which she replied, ‘No!'”

The ‘Into The Groove’ singer also disclosed that one of the doctors who had tended to her during her health crisis was present in the audience that night. She reminisced about how he guided her through the challenging recovery period following her hospital discharge.

“I would call in every other day and ask [my doctor] why I didn’t have any energy, when was my energy going to come back? When was I going to feel like myself again? When can I go on tour again?” she recounted.

All he would advise me was, “Go outside in the sun”… It was incredibly challenging for me to even walk from my house to the backyard and sit in the sunlight. I know it sounds absurd, but it was genuinely difficult,’ she confessed. ‘It’s a peculiar sensation to finally relinquish control, and that was my lesson… to surrender.’

The singer, born Madonna Ciccone, attributed her recovery and return to the stage to her six children. ‘My children truly helped me pull through because they put in so much effort,’ she revealed. ‘I couldn’t bear to disappoint them, so I just set a deadline. And that deadline became reality.’

During a previous tour stop in Brooklyn in December, the pop icon quipped that she had to ‘nearly face death to gather all my kids in one room.’

She shares 27-year-old daughter Lourdes with her former partner, fitness trainer Carlos Leon, and her 23-year-old son Rocco with her ex-husband, filmmaker Guy Ritchie. Madonna later adopted her son David Banda, 18; daughter Chifundo ‘Mercy’ James, 18; and twin daughters Stella and Estere, 11.

According to Radar Online, Madonna experienced acute septic shock on June 24, and emergency responders reportedly administered Narcan to revive her. While typically used to counter opioid overdoses, Narcan can also aid in reviving individuals in septic shock.

During her Brooklyn performance, Madonna revealed that her ‘lungs weren’t functioning’ and her ‘kidneys were failing,’ expressing a 40 percent chance of survival. However, within days of hospitalization, she began showing signs of improvement and now appears to be in good health, showcasing her resilience once again.