Overview

• In her first appearance on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast, Madonna recounts a four-day medically induced coma in June 2023 after a serious bacterial infection.
• She says she saw her late mother ask, “Do you want to come with me?” and that her assistant heard her say “No” aloud while she was unconscious.
• Madonna interpreted that moment as a directive to forgive, which she says led her to reconcile with her estranged brother Christopher Ciccone before his death in 2024.
• She describes holding his hand and telling him, “I love you and I forgive you,” after years of estrangement that followed his 2008 tell-all memoir and despite his earlier creative roles in her career.
• She says she wrote unreleased tracks titled “Fragile” and “Forgive Yourself” about the experience, with reporting also noting discussions about new work with longtime collaborator Stuart Price without announced release plans.