Music icon talks about emergency hospitalization and doctors' predictions she might not survive

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Things were looking bleak for Madonna over the summer when she was reportedly intubated in an intensive care unit after being found unresponsive.

Now she's opening up about her health, saying it's a "miracle" that she's alive. "Less than four months ago, I was in a hospital and I was unconscious, and people were thinking, predicting that I might not make it," the Queen of Pop said during a concert in Belgium in October 2023.

Although Madonna's mom passed away six decades ago, the singer is crediting her mother with helping her stay alive. 

Keeping reading to see what Madge said about her health crisis…

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Madonna suffered a bacterial infection that landed her in the intensive care unit on June 26, 2023.

Page Six reported that the Material Girl was found unresponsive and subsequently rushed to a New York City hospital. There, she was reportedly intubated "for at least one night before having the tube removed."

Although Madonna was discharged from the hospital after three days, TMZ reported that Madge was still bedridden at home and "vomiting uncontrollably."

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Amid her hospitalization and some dire predictions, Madonna said during her concert in Antwerp, Belgium, in October 2023, "It's a f****** miracle that I'm here right now. My mother, God bless her, she must be watching over me — she said, 'Girl, it's not your time to go.'"

Madonna spoke of a "strange thought" she had about her late mom. "I suddenly had sympathy and empathy for my mother, not about the dying part, but how lonely she must have felt laying in a hospital, knowing that she wasn't going to live, and I was given another chance," she said. "So I'm very grateful for that."

Madonna's mother died of breast cancer in 1963. 

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While discussing her health from the stage in Belgium in October 2023, Madonna admitted that she didn't feel 100%.

"I must tell you, I don't feel really well right now, but I can't complain 'cause I'm alive," she said, as reported by People magazine. "Thank God for my children and all of you for your love and support, I really appreciate it."

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At a previous show during a United Kingdom stop on her "Celebration Tour," Madonna said there was legitimate talk of her dying. 

"I didn't think I was gonna make it. Neither did my doctors. That's why I woke up with all of my children sitting around me. I forgot five years of my life, or my death, I don't really know where I was. But the angels were protecting me, and my children were there. And my children always save me every time," she said of Lourdes Leon, 27; Rocco Ritchie, 23; David Ritchie, 18; Mercy Ciccone, 17, and twins Stella and Estere Ciccone, 11.