19-05-2025
Madonna wears wavy brunette wig to remember her mother
Madonna paid tribute to her late mother Madonna Louise Fortin Ciccone after celebrating Mother's Day recently.
The 66-year-old singer decided to wear a wavy brunette wig, writing: 'I missed my mother so I channeled her...'
Madonna was only five when her mom died, age 30, in 1963 from breast cancer after welcoming six children.
'It was just the greatest event of my life. It was like a part of my heart was ripped out,' Madonna recalled in Sky documentary Becoming Madonna in January.
'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.
Last year, Madonna revealed she was kept in the dark about her mother's terminal illness.
'Nobody told me my mother was dying,' the self-made superstar wrote on Instagram.
'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.'
Each night of Madonna's 81-date Celebration Tour she would project an image of her mother during her 2003 song Mother And Father.
'When I stepped out on the stage and looked up at my mother's face every night, I said, "Hello,"' the two-time Golden Globe winner continued.
'I said, "Goodbye." I said, "Thank you. I hope you're proud of me." I said, "Please protect me and keep me sane."'
Madonna's father Silvio Ciccone - who turns 94 on June 2 - was married to the family's housekeeper Joan Gustafson from 1966 until her death, at age 81, from cancer.
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Madonna will 'soon' re-release her sixth studio album Bedtime Stories and she's recording a sequel to her 2005 dance album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, with musical director Stuart Price.
Madonna is the world's best-selling female recording artist and the most successful solo artist in the history of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart with 44 No. 1 singles.
