Overview

• In a Sept. 29 On Purpose episode, Madonna describes a conscious moment during a four‑day medically induced coma in June 2023 when she says her late mother appeared to her.
• She says her assistant later told her she audibly said “No” while unconscious, which she interpreted as a decision to let go of long‑held grudges.
• Madonna recounts making peace with her brother Christopher Ciccone before his October 2024 death at 63, telling him, “I love you and I forgive you.”
• She frames the reconciliation against years of estrangement that deepened after Christopher’s 2008 memoir Life With My Sister Madonna.
• Madonna says the experience inspired unreleased songs titled “Fragile” and “Forgive Yourself,” and that she is working again with longtime collaborator Stuart Price.