Madonna discharged after six days in hospital due to infection
The singer has been hospitalized in New York due to a bacterium, which has forced her to temporarily suspend her imminent tour
Madonna’s fans can breathe easy. The queen of pop is home. Less than a day after it became known that the 64-year-old singer had been admitted to a hospital in New York because of an infection, according to CNN and People magazine, citing a source close to the artist. For the moment, neither she nor her representation agency have made a statement. There is also no word on the fate of her imminent world tour, which was set to kick off on July 15 in Canada.
It was early Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. when the news that Madonna was hospitalized since Saturday came out. The story was revealed by the outlet Page Six, and was quickly confirmed by her agent, Guy Oseary, in a brief statement made through his Instagram profile. “On Saturday June 24, Madonna developed a serious bacterial infection which lead to a several day stay in the ICU,” said the statement. “Her health is improving, however she is still under medical care. A full recovery is expected. At this time we will need to pause all commitments, which includes the tour. We will share more details with you as soon as we have them, including a new start date for the tour and for rescheduled shows.”
According to Page Six, Madonna had been intubated, but the breathing tube had already been removed by Wednesday. She had also been visited by her eldest daughter, Lourdes Leon.
Madonna was preparing for one of the most exciting moments of her career: the start of her The Celebration Tour, in which she celebrated, as the name itself indicates, her 40th anniversary on stage. The tour would take her to more than 35 cities for over 80 concerts. The start was imminent: July 15 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada. From there it would go on to U.S. cities such as Detroit, Chicago, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas... and then to a dozen cities in Europe in autumn. For Spanish fans, the most awaited date was the one in Barcelona, which generated so much expectation that, although only one concert was originally scheduled, in the end there were two, on November 1 and 2. These, with all tickets sold out, were to be the singer’s first concerts in Spain in eight years. Initially, the European tour ended in Amsterdam in December, but two more dates in London were added as a grand finale. Lastly, the singer would return to America, with another dozen dates in the U.S. and, to round off The Celebration Tour, four concerts in Mexico City at the end of January.
Once Madonna and her health progress, it will be time to find out how she will reorganize her schedule. For the time being, it is unknown if the tour will be permanently paused, if she will suspend the first concerts or move them to a different date, if they will all be rescheduled.... Her company has not disclosed anything about her intentions. On her website, for now, there are no changes either. And she, for the moment, has not communicated anything either about the tour or about her health on her social media profiles; despite being very active on Instagram, where she has close to 20 million users.
Madonna is the woman who has earned the most money in the history of music thanks to her always expected and flashy world tours. The first was in 1985 and since then she has made a total of 11 with some 700 concerts around the world, which has brought her more than one billion dollars in sales, according to data from Ticketmaster.
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