The Madonna revealed that he was put into an induced coma for 48 hours while hospitalized with a bacterial infection.

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The 65-year-old singer was performing her ‘Celebration’ tour in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday night when she opened up about her health scare in June, during which she was admitted to intensive care after suffering lung and kidney failure.

Speaking to the crowd, Madonna paid a personal tribute to her friend Shavawn, saying: “There are some important people here tonight who were with me in the hospital. There is a very important woman who dragged me to the hospital. I don’t even remember- I passed out on my bathroom floor and woke up in the ICU… I was in an induced coma for 48 hours. He saved my life. Thank you Shavawn.”

Madonna, who has followed Kabbalah since 1996, thanked her teacher, who was by her side in hospital, saying his own voice was the only one she ”heard” while in an induced coma.

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“The only voice I heard was his. I heard him say, “Squeeze my hand.” She added: “When I came to, for the first time I saw my six incredible children sitting around me – by the way, I almost had to die to get all my children in one room.”