While onstage in Belgium over the weekend, Madonna reflected on her hospitalization for a bacterial infection back in June.
The singer got emotional Saturday night when thinking back to how sick she was just a few months ago, and told the crowd that she wasn’t feeling her best but was grateful to be alive.
“Less than four months ago, I was in a hospital and I was unconscious, and people were thinking, predicting that I might not make it,†she said, in fan-captured video. “It’s a f****** miracle that I’m here right now. My mother, God bless her, she must be watching over me — she said, ‘Girl, it’s not your time to go.’â€
She added, “I had this strange thought. I suddenly had sympathy for my mother, not about the dying part, but how lonely she must have felt being in hospital, knowing that she wasn’t going to live.â€
Madonna’s mother died from breast cancer when Madonna was five years old.
“I must tell you I don’t feel very well right now, but I can’t complain, because I’m alive,†she told the audience before pushing forward with the show. “Thank God for my children and all of your love and support.â€
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