Madonna has revealed for the first time the details of her battle with sepsis – an ordeal that left her unconscious for four days and profoundly reshaped her outlook on life.

‘I had something called sepsis, and it can kill you,’ the 67-year-old star said on the latest episode of Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast, released today, breaking her silence about the life-threatening infection.

She described the sudden collapse in her health with stark clarity: ‘I was rehearsing for a tour, and I got a bacterial infection.

‘One minute I was alive and dancing around, and the next minute I was in the ICU, unconscious for four days. They took me off the ventilator, I started to breathe on my own, and I had something called sepsis, and it can kill you.’

Madonna’s case quickly escalated to an emergen

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