American pop megastar Madonna, 64, returned home after a few days in intensive care following a “serious bacterial infection”, a source close to the artist said on Thursday, June 29. These health problems forced her to postpone her tour of North America and Europe.
Madonna “feels better”, assured this source without specifying when she was released from the hospital.
On Wednesday, her manager Guy Oseary had revealed the “serious” infection contracted last Saturday by the singer and her hospitalization in intensive care, while indicating that her health was in the process of “improving” towards a “full recovery”. Among her many places of residence, Madonna is reputed to live in the north of Manhattan, the main island of New York. Guy Oseary announced on Wednesday the postponement of the tour “The Celebration Tour” originally scheduled from July to December in North America and Europe, including Paris and London. Madonna’s first concert, to celebrate 40 years of unparalleled career and influence, was to be held on July 15 in Vancouver, western Canada.
The tickets for the 35 dates that were to follow from Vancouver to Las Vegas via all the major cities of North America (Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal…) had almost all been sold from last January. The “Celebration Tour” was then due to cross the Atlantic in October for concerts in London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Amsterdam for a final show on December 1. In Paris, Madonna was to ignite the Accor Arena on November 12 and 13.
Madonna Louise Ciccone, born in August 1958 in Michigan, to parents of Italian and French-Canadian origins, began her career as a dancer, songwriter and singer in the late 1970s in New York, with 35 dollars in her pocket. She has won seven Grammy Awards, including 14 studio albums as well as live records, film soundtracks, compilations… Her career as a producer, actress and film director has made her for 40 years one of the artists and woman of most influential and wealthy businessmen on the planet.