Madonna takes tumble after dancer drops her during Celebration show

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Madonna laughed off a stage fall while she was performing Open Your Heart during a recent concert in Seattle.

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Fan-captured video shared to X and TikTok showed the pop icon, 65, in the midst of singing her 1986 hit as she was being pulled by one of her backup dancers in a chair when she took the tumble. The heels-wearing dancer slipped, losing grip of the singer’s chair and sending her flying.

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But Madge was unbothered, letting out a little laugh and continuing on with the song.

In response to one clip shared on X, fans praised the singer, writing, “She’s the Queen for a reason,” and “That laugh was everything!”

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“People … stop saying Madonna is out of shape,” another user wrote sharing their own video of the mishap. “She looks amazing.”

Another attendee shared their clip saying “she was a good sport about it.”

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Before her Celebration Tour kicked off, Madonna was hospitalized last summer for a “serious infection.”

“My first thought when I woke up in the hospital was my children,” Madonna wrote on Instagram while she recovered at home. “My second thought was that I did not want to disappoint anyone who bought tickets for my tour. I also didn’t want to let down the people who worked tirelessly with me over the last few months to create my show.”

During a show in Brooklyn in December, the seven-time Grammy winner revealed just how close she had come to death.

“The fact that I’m here right now is the f***ing miracle,” she said during her concert at Barclays Center.

“There are some people in this room tonight that were with me in the hospital,” she added.

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“There is one very important woman who dragged me to the hospital … I passed out on my bathroom floor and I woke up in the ICU.”

Madonna — who is a mother to six children — said she immediately thought of her own mother, who died from breast cancer when she was just 30.

“She was by herself,” she said. “And I was thinking, ‘What if I left my children?’ That would destroy me to leave my children at this moment in their lives. I wasn’t thinking about me. I was thinking about them, and I was thinking about my mother and how scared she must have been to know that she was going to leave us all behind.”

She concluded, telling fans: “I don’t take any of this s*** for granted.”

Madonna’s Celebration Tour wraps in Miami in April.

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