Heartbreaking: Madonna American singer-songwriter and actress Just Passed Away At the Aged of 66..see..more..director Alek Keshishian, Madonna made the same journey, lying on her mother’s grave and speaking about her love for the woman who died when she was 5. The scene was included in her groundbreaking, warts-and-all tour doc “Truth or Dare.”On Friday, the Queen of Pop, 66, posted images of herself visiting Calvary Cemetery in Kawkawlin, Michigan, looking somber as she kneels before the graves of her mom — also named Madonna — who died of cancer at 30 in 1963, and her brother Christopher, who died October 4 of cancer at 63.grandmother
Her 28-year-old daughter Lourdes Leon accompanied Mom to the cemetery, and is seen next to her grandma’s grave.
In one of the photos, Christopher’s grave marker is shown with the caption, “Homecoming … … … … .”
Madonna wrote of her brother after he died, “My brother Christopher is gone. He was the closest human to me for so long Its hard to explain our bond But it grew out of an understanding that we were different and society was going to give us a hard time for not following the status quo.”
She went on, “We took each other‘s hands and we danced through the madness of our childhood In fact dance was a kind of superglue that held us together. Discovering Dance in our small Midwestern town saved me and then my brother came along, and it saved him too.”
Calling out how important her brother’s queer identity was in her formative years, she wrote, “My ballet Teacher, also named Christopher- created a safe space for my brother to be Gay. a word that was not spoken or even whispered where we lived. When I finally got the courage to go to New York to become a Dancer. My brother followed. And again we took each other’s hands, and we danced through the madness of New York City! We devoured Art and Music And Film like hungry animals we were in the epicenter of all of these things exploding. We danced through the madness of the AIDS epidemic. We went to funerals and we cried, and we went dancing. We danced together on stage in the beginning of my career and eventually, he became my the Creative. Director, of many tours. When it came to good taste, my brother was the Pope, and you had to kiss the ring to get his blessing
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