'Nothing can stop me': Madonna recalls her recovery from 4-day near-death coma experience before The Celebration Tour in 2023

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Madonna is grateful for her life and her music as she continues 'The Celebration Tour,' despite suffering a serious health scare last year.

The pop icon revealed how she survived a near-fatal bacterial infection that put her in a coma for four days last year.

Madonna opens up about her 'near-death experience'

During her concert at Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Monday, March 4, Madonna shared her emotional story with the audience.

“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. My heart is on my sleeve,” she said.

“I’ve fallen off a lot of horses and broken a lot of bones… but nothing can stop me,” she said, adding, “This summer I had a surprise. It’s called a near-death experience.”

Madonna recalls waking up from a coma and saying her first word, ‘No’ 

Madonna collapsed in June 2023 due to a “serious bacterial infection” that forced her to postpone her world tour. She was rushed to the hospital and placed in an induced coma.

“It was pretty scary, obviously I didn’t know for four days because I was in an induced coma, but when I woke up, the first word I said was, ‘No,’” Madonna recalled.

The '4 Minutes' singer added, "I’m pretty sure God was saying to me, ‘You wanna come with us? You wanna come with me, you wanna go this way?’ And I said, ‘No. No!'”

Madonna reveals how she recovered and returned to the stage

Madonna admitted that she was impatient with her recovery process and wanted to get back to her normal energy level and tour schedule.

The 'Lucky Star' singer said she would call her doctor every other day and ask him when she would feel better, but he would only tell her to “go outside, in the sun.”

She also said that even moving from her house to her backyard was a struggle.  

She said, "It 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."

Madonna remembered a conversation she had with her manager, Guy Oseary, while she was in the hospital.

“He said, ‘Well, when do you think you want to go back on tour?’ I took the oxygen out of my nose. I looked at him, and I said, 'in two f****** months!” she said.

“I just said it. Sometimes you just have to say s*** [and] put it out in the universe. And it happens," Madonna recalled. 

Madonna said that the experience taught her to “let go” and appreciate her life more. She also credited her children for helping her pull through.

“My children are what really helped me pull through because they worked so hard. I didn’t want to let them down, so I just set a date. And that date became reality,” she said according to People.