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TAKE IT EASY, MADONNA!

‘SHE WAS WORKING OVERTIME, BUT SHE CLEARLY BURNT HERSELF OUT’

HER work schedule was gruelling by anyone’s standards: 84 concerts in 45 cities during a seven-month world tour. Yet Madonna has always been one to push boundaries and she’s been working around the clock to gear up for her 40th anniversary Celebration Tour.

At 64, it could be her last tour and insiders say she wanted to make it a showstopper. She’d been putting herself through punishing 12-hour rehearsals six days a week – but in the end it all became too much.

Two weeks before the tour was supposed to kick off, the pop legend was found unresponsive in her New

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