Madonna has opened up about her mum dying when she was just five years old.
The Queen of Pop has spoken about losing her mum to breast cancer. Madonna Louise Ciccone was just 30 when she died in 1963.
In the new Sky documentary, Becoming Madonna, the star, who was named after her mum, told how her mother's death has shaped the rest of her life.
"What happened you know when I was (5) years old, it was just the greatest event of my life," the singer revealed. "It was like a part of my heart was ripped out."
She continued, "I was forced to grow up fast and understand my mother's death, to understand the psychological, all things that were going on. It was too much for a child I think," she added, confessing that she felt an "emptiness" after her mother's death.
When she was asked what she remembers about her mum, she shared that "She was beautiful and sweet and a hard worker."
Earlier this year, the pop icon revealed she'd dedicated a section of her 2023-2024 Celebration Tour to pay tribute to her mum, performing in front of a giant photo of her.
"I stood on stage for 81 shows staring up at the beautiful face of my mother and wondering what she must've been thinking as she waved goodbye to me from her hospital window," she wrote on Instagram.
"I stepped into the station wagon and shut the door not knowing it was the last time I'd see her. Nobody told me my mother was dying - I just watched her disintegrate mysteriously, and then she disappeared, and there was no explanation except that she had gone to sleep, which explains my tumultuous relationship with sleep."
She finished the post by writing, "When I stepped out on the stage and looked up at my mother's face every night, I said, "Hello,' I said, 'Goodbye.' I said, 'Thank you. I hope you're proud of me.' I said, 'Please protect me and keep me sane.'"
Becoming Madonna is now streaming on Sky Documentaries.
