A source close to production told Page Six exclusively that Madonna had “exhaustedly rehearsed” for the upcoming Celebration Tour at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island for weeks before she was found unresponsive and hospitalized.
“He was putting in 12 hours a day,” says an insider. “He was rehearsing strenuously and getting to work.”
The Uniondale, NY venue that once served as the New York Islanders’ home arena and is now mostly disused has a special scheduled for the weekend, so it’s no surprise to the staff that they didn’t see it at rehearsals. we hear.
In fact, the Colosseum appears to have learned what happened to the 64-year-old “Material Girl” singer after Page Six broke the news of her medical emergency Wednesday.
A source told us that the Queen of Pop was found unresponsive on Saturday and was taken to an NYC hospital where she was intubated and placed in the Intensive Care Unit.
We heard that he has since been extubated and moved from the ICU floor to a regular hospital room, where he is staying with his daughter Lourdes Leon.
Madonna’s longtime manager, Guy Oseary, revealed on Instagram that the musician “developed a serious bacterial infection that caused him to spend several days in the ICU.”
He explained that Madonna is expected to “make a full recovery” while “still under medical care”.
In light of the health scare, the entire tour, which was scheduled to begin in Vancouver on July 15, was postponed by the musician’s reluctance to make.
A second insider said, “Madonna doesn’t want to cancel her tour. She was having so much fun at rehearsals and she wants to come back when she’s ready.”
The source adds that it’s “game” to get “finally” on the road, but “his team doesn’t want to push him.”
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Oseary assured fans that details on a “new start date” and “rescheduled shows” will be made available as soon as possible.
Madonna, who has been sharing photos and videos of her tour rehearsals on social media for months, looked healthy and happy in a slide show released just four days before her hospitalization.
“The calm before the storm………” He added captions to his Instagram post, which was uploaded on June 20.
Last month, the “Hung Up” singer was spotted having Mother’s Day dinner in NYC with her six children: Lourdes, 26, Rocco, 22, David, 17, Mercy, 17, and 10-year-old twins Estere and Stella.