{"id":33281,"date":"2024-03-07T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=33281"},"modified":"2024-03-07T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:37:30","slug":"madonna-thinks-she-spoke-to-god-during-near-death-hospitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/03\/madonna-thinks-she-spoke-to-god-during-near-death-hospitalization.html","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Says She Spoke to God During Near-Death Hospitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33287\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/03\/madonna-hospitalization-credit-denis-makarenko-shutterstock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33287\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/03\/madonna-hospitalization-credit-denis-makarenko-shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"madonna\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Makarenko\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just like a prayer, Madonna knew God was with her when she was hospitalized in the ICU with a &#8220;serious bacterial infection&#8221; in June. The singer recalled the &#8220;near-death experience&#8221; at her sold-out Los Angeles show and told fans that her first word coming out of an induced coma after four days was &#8220;no,&#8221; according to <em>People.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Madonna said, &#8220;I\u2019m pretty sure that was God saying to me, \u2018Do you want to come? Want to come up with me? No.\u2019\u201d The pop icon was forced to reschedule a number of dates on her Celebration World Tour in June due to a medical issue. Her longtime manager, Guy Oseary, wrote on Instagram at the time, \u201cOn Saturday, June 24, Madonna developed a serious bacterial infection which lead (sic) to a several day stay in the ICU. Her health is improving; however, she is still under medical care. A full recovery is expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madonna previously\u00a0canceled a string of shows\u00a0on her last tour in 2019 due to a knee injury and ultimately ended the tour early. According to the outlet, she said, \u201cThis show every night is not really so hard on me physically. It\u2019s hard on me emotionally because I\u2019m really telling you the story of my life. My heart is on my sleeve. I\u2019ve fallen off a lot of horses and broken a lot of bones, but nothing can stop me.\u201d She later recalled a conversation with Oseary while she was hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WRMjdc6P4Nk?si=ntkSPgqTPi9tJiXx\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cHe said, \u2018Well, when do you think you want to go back on tour?\u2019 I took the oxygen out of my nose. I looked at him, and I said, \u2018In two f&#8212;ing months!\u2019 I just said it. Sometimes, you just have to say s&#8212; [and] put it out in the universe. And it happens.\u201d The \u201cCrazy for You\u201d singer gave a shoutout to her doctor, who was in the audience and remembered feeling antsy about getting back to performing for her fans once again.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI would call in every other day and ask [my doctor] why I didn\u2019t 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? All he would say is, \u2018Go outside in the sun.\u2019 \u00a0It was so hard for me to walk from my house to the backyard and sit in the sun. I know that sounds insane, but it was difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, her\u00a0health scare\u00a0forced Madonna to slow down and listen to her body.\u00a0\u201cIt&#8217;s a strange thing to finally not feel like I was in control, and that was my lesson: to let go,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like a prayer, Madonna knew God was with her when she was hospitalized in the ICU with a &#8220;serious bacterial infection&#8221; in June. The singer recalled the &#8220;near-death experience&#8221; at her sold-out Los Angeles show and told fans that her first word coming out of an induced coma after four days was &#8220;no,&#8221; according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":33287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8],"tags":[6236,237],"class_list":["post-33281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-entertainment","category-music","tag-hospitalization","tag-madonna"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Madonna Says She Spoke to God During Near-Death Hospitalization<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The singer recalled the &quot;near-death experience&quot; and told fans that her first 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