Madonna bravely expressed that she has no fear of death. The singer, known as the Material Girl, opened up about the loss of her mother and how it influenced her perspective on mortality.
Madonna, now 66, took to Instagram on 27 February to share a heartfelt tribute to her mother, Madonna Louise Ciccone, who passed away in 1964 at the young age of 30 from breast cancer.
“When I was a child my mother died,” Madonna wrote. “Seeing her beautiful face in the open casket and kissing her red lips to say goodbye left a haunting memory. A deep longing. A terrible fear of abandonment. I would follow my father everywhere reminding him that if he ever died I wanted to be buried with him.”
She said she became fascinated with cemeteries and saw death as the only way to be reunited with her mother.
“As life went on, I lost many people that I loved dearly and came to look at death as kind of a doorway to eternal life,” she explained.
The singer revealed she “found solace visiting other people’s graves” in cemeteries and “trying to connect with the souls of all the lost ones.”
“I wanted to reassure them that they were not alone. None of us are,” she shared.
Reflecting on her Catholic upbringing, Madonna recalled a lesson from a nun: “‘We are all married to God.’ That’s what sister Mary Theresa always used to say to me. ‘I am the bride of Christ. I am the bride of love.'”
“This sounded so romantic to me,” she continued. “I imagined I could tell her all my deepest secrets.”
