Madonna reveals why she’s “not afraid of death” in emotional note
Madonna has shared an emotional letter on social media, explaining why she is “not afraid of death”.
The pop icon shared the post on her Instagram account last night (February 27), reflecting on the death of her mother when she was a child and explaining how the loss led to her having an altered perception of death.
She made the post via her Stories, sharing a letter she had written back in November.
“When I was a child my mother died. Seeing her beautiful face in the open casket and kissing her red lips to say goodbye, left a haunting memory. A deep longing. A terrible fear of abandonment,” she began.
“I would follow my father everywhere reminding him that if he ever died I wanted to be buried with him. I became fascinated with cemeteries,” she added. “I was not afraid of death because I knew this was the only way I could be with my mother again.
“As life went on I lost many people that I loved dearly, and came to look at death as a kind of doorway to eternal life. Even when my lovers left me I saw it as a kind of death. When they hurt me I would have a ritualistic burial for them. I would bury my fear of abandonment before it could overtake me.”
“I found solace visiting other people’s graves. Trying to connect to the souls of all the lost ones. I wanted to reassure them that they were not alone. None of us are,” Madonna continued, recalling the past advice she was given from the Church. “’We are all married to God.’ That’s what sister Mary Theresa always used to say to me. ‘I am the bride of Christ. I am the bride of love.’
“This sounded so romantic to me. I imagined I could tell her all my deepest secrets. ‘Bury your fear. Bury your fear,’ she would say to me. Then she would take my hand and we would walk amongst the dead, under the light of the full moon.”
The ‘Celebration’ singer also shared a shortened version of the letter in a post, containing a carousel of images from a photoshoot. Find the post above.
Madonna’s mother died from breast cancer when the singer was only five years old.
This isn’t the first time that the singer has shared her outlook on life and her attitude towards death in recent months. Last summer, Madonna looked back at the near-death health scare she faced in 2023 that forced her to postpone her tour.
“A year ago today, I had just come home from the hospital after surviving a life-threatening illness, I could barely stand in my backyard holding one sparkler,” she said in a post last July. “I made a miraculous recovery and had an amazing year. Thank you God. Life is beautiful!”
Exact details of the health scare were not shared, although it was revealed that she faced a life-threatening health episode in June 2023 after battling a “serious bacterial infection” that led to her slipping into a coma and being admitted to the ICU.
Her relatives revealed that they were “preparing for the worst” when she became unwell. She has since made a full recovery.
In more recent Madonna news, the pop icon recently announced the upcoming re-release of her classic 1994 album ‘Bedtime Stories’, and spoke out against Donald Trump referring to himself as a “king”.
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