Madonna and her brother Christopher in the late 1990s

Madonna is opening up about her complicated relationship with her late brother, Christopher Ciccone, who died last year.

The Queen of Pop appeared on Monday’s episode of the podcast On Purpose With Jay Shetty, and in the wide-ranging interview, shared how she and her late sibling came to make amends following years of estrangement.

“It’s important to find a way to forgive even people that you perceive as your biggest enemies,” she explained.

“For a really long time, it was my brother, who died recently, because I think the hardest ones are the people that you feel like you’re the closest to ... the people that hurt you the most are the people you love the most.”

She went on to note: “If someone you love deeply betrays you, and does something that shows that they have no consciousness in that moment that they made that choice to do that, it’s a bitter pill for me to swallow.”

Madonna attends the 1998 Academy Awards with her brother, Christopher Ciccone

Christopher, one of Madonna’s seven siblings, died of pancreatic cancer in October 2024, at the age of 63.

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