Madge Takes Strain

Concern is growing for injury-stricken Madonna as lockdown bites

- Kim Abrahams

SHE’S never been one for half measures, has Madge. But even by her own standards her recent behaviour is out of character.

There’s still the over-the-top exhibitionist Madonna, who thoroughly enjoyed shocking fans with a picture of herself reclining in a chair in barely-there lingerie that shows her toned physique off to perfection.

“And for those of you offended by this photo I want to let you know that I’ve successfully graduated from the University of Zero F*^ks Given. Thanks for coming to my Graduation Ceremony! Class of 2020!” she wrote in the caption on Instagram.

She’s as saucy as ever, sharing a picture of her perky derrière, which prompted a flurry of comments about whether she’s had butt implants (YOU, 28 May).

And fun, still? You betcha, as she proved when belting out an improvised version of her classic hit Vogue with a hairbrush and the lyrics reworked to centre on eating fried fish.

But this time there’s also a darker, more melancholy Madge. In a video that had fans worried about her mental state she can be seen sitting with thick glasses in front of a typewriter in a gloomy room.

“Quarantine diary No 9,” she says. “The burning spear makes its way into the core of me and slithers down my leg, and I can concentrate on nothing except the idea of a fix, and I wonder what form that will take.”

She then speaks about three people she knows who’d died in the past 24 hours, though she doesn’t say whether their deaths were related to coronavirus.