Madonna Admits She Was In ‘Induced Coma’ For Two Days During Health Scare

Madonna recently addressed the state of her health during her performance at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. She revealed she was in “an induced coma for 48 hours” after suffering a bacterial infection in June. The video of her speech made the rounds of social media, and some fans were touched by her words.

The “Material Girl” thanked those who stayed by her side during the health scare, including her Kabbalah teacher. “The only voice I heard was his. I heard him say, ‘Squeeze my hand,’” she recalled. She also shouted out close buddy Michael Shavawn for his presence at the concert that day.

Madonna remembers her hospitalization

The iconic Queen of Pop was full of gratitude while on stage, as she narrated the events of her hospitalization and the people that supported her at the time. “There are some very important people in the room tonight that were with me at the hospital,” she disclosed. “There’s one very important woman who dragged me to the hospital. I don’t even remember; I passed out on my bathroom floor and woke up in the ICU. She saved my life.”

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She also made a subtle joke about her kids — Lourdes, Estere, Stella, Rocco, Mercy, and David Banda, finally coming together during her emergency. “There were a couple of things I thought about when I first became conscious and I saw my six incredible children sitting around me — by the way, I had to almost die to get all my kids in one room.”

She did not expect to recover

Madonna’s health issues led to a halt in her Celebration tour, but she was fit enough to get back on the road in October. “Less than four months ago, I was in a hospital and I was unconscious, and people were predicting that I might not make it. So it’s a f—ing miracle that I’m here right now,” she told concertgoers in Belgium.

She also spoke about her recovery during her London gig, where she credited her love for her kids as the reason she’s alive.  “I didn’t think I was going to make it, neither did my doctors…If you want to know my secret, and you want to know how I pulled through and how I survived, I thought, ‘I’ve got to be there for my children,'” she said. “‘I have to survive for them.’”