Madonna cancels Miami concert due to ‘indescribable’ pain: ‘I have to listen to my body’
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Madonna says she was forced to cancel a Miami gig at the last minute because she was in “indescribable” pain — insisting doctors warned her that she could cause “irreversible damage” if she performed.
“I want to say how deeply sorry I am to all my fans,” the Material Girl wrote Christmas Day on Instagram of her Sunday gig that was scrapped just two hours before showtime.
Madonna — who was involved with a legal dispute with ex-husband Guy Ritchie that hit courts the day after the canceled concert — spoke out to insist she had to act because of “indescribable” pain from “injuries,” without providing more details.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I consider myself a warrior,” she wrote alongside a video clip of her struggling to climb a ladder, saying it left her “in tears of pain” at the Miami show that went ahead the night before the canceled one.
“I never quit, I never give in, I never give up!! However this time I have to listen to my body and accept that my pain is a warning,” she wrote.
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“I spent the last two days with doctors,” she said, saying she had “scans, ultra sounds, Xrays.”
“Poking and probing and more tears,” she said.
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“They have made it very clear to me that if I am to continue my tour— I must rest for as long as possible so that I don’t inflict further and irreversible damage to my body.
“I have never let an injury stop me from performing but this time i have to accept that there is no shame in being human and having to press the pause button.”
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Thanking fans for “their understanding, love and support,” she said, “Things have got to change. And they will because MADAME is a fighter!!”
Her medical drama came amid further woes as ex-husband Ritchie filed legal papers in Manhatten Supreme Court on Monday seeking “the enforcement or execution of a judgment or order” in the pair’s divorce.
It wasn’t clear what the dispute is over, but four years ago they also battled over where their kids would spend Christmas.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Ritchie posted a full-family photo on Christmas Day that showed their two children — Rocco, 19, and David Banda, 14 — with him, although it was not clear when it was taken.
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“From our family to yours — Happy Christmas!” the director wrote next to the snap which also showed his current wife Jacqui Ainsley and their children together, Rafael, Levi and Rivka.
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