Madonna shares behind-the-scenes album with her children during Celebration Tour… after praising them for ‘saving’ her during her life-threatening health crisis last year

Madonna shared a heartwarming behind-the-scenes album of her with her four younger children during her Celebration Tour.

The 65-year-old pop superstar adopted David Banda, 18, Mercy James, 18, and her 16-year-old twins Stella and Estere from Namibia.

Her children have accompanied her on her traveling series of concerts and have even appeared on stage with her as performers.

Now, the Material Girl has posted an extensive Instagram album of her children rehearsing with her and joining her on stage.

One particularly heartwarming photo was of Madonna gathering some of her children backstage for a group hug.

The 65-year-old pop superstar adopted David Banda (right), 18, Mercy James, 18, and her 16-year-old twins Stella and Estere from Namibia

Her children have accompanied her on her traveling series of concerts and have even appeared on stage with her as performers

“On the day before our 80th show of the Celebration Tour, I must thank my incredibly talented children who carried me through this journey, each of them bringing their own unique talent to the stage,” she wrote.

‘Rehearsals started over a year ago with a break of almost two months, during which I waited to recover from a near-death experience. They never stopped practicing…they never stopped encouraging me and supporting me,” she recalled.

Madonna has repeatedly credited her children with helping her through her shocking health crisis last year, when she endured a spell in intensive care and almost lost her life from what her manager called a “serious bacterial infection.”

‘The enthusiasm kept me going!!!’ she wrote about her children. ‘They also went to school and rehearsed every night. !! . I am so very proud of them all.”

Madonna said, “I think what my kids have learned the most from rehearsing and performing this year is that if you want to follow your dreams, you have to work hard for them. And if they all choose something different later in life, they will never forget this year of blood, sweat and tears. Me neither. It’s a CELEBRATION!’

In addition to the four younger children she adopted from Malawi, Madonna also has two older children who she welcomed biologically.

She and a fitness trainer named Carlos Leon share a 27-year-old daughter named Lola, who has followed in her mother’s footsteps into the music business.

Madge then had Rocco, 23, with her husband, film director Guy Ritchie, to whom she was married from 2000 to 2008.

Now, the Material Girl has posted an extensive Instagram album of her children rehearsing with her and joining her on stage

Madonna praised her “incredibly talented children who carried me through this journey and each brought their own unique talent to the stage”

“Rehearsals started over a year ago with an almost two month break waiting for me to recover from a near death experience,” the Like A Prayer singer wrote.

“They never stopped practicing… they never stopped encouraging and supporting me,” she recalled in the caption of her Instagram album

Her current tour kicked off last October at London’s 02 Arena after postponement due to her shocking ICU stay in June.

In November, at the Accor Arena in Paris, Madonna finally revealed that she had suffered lung and kidney failure amid her life-threatening health scare.

‘I was infected with a bacteria that no one knows anything about. And there is a 40% mortality rate,” she said The sun.

The Celebration Tour was scheduled to begin in mid-July with a North American leg that would pass through more than twenty cities in the United States and Canada.

However, that leg had to be postponed after Madonna’s health suffered a sudden decline that struck fear in the hearts of her global fan base.

She spent several days in intensive care after suffering a “serious bacterial infection,” according to her manager.

A report in Radaronline sensationally claimed that she had suffered acute septic shock and was revived with Narcan, which is commonly used to treat overdoses.

On stage in Paris in November, she said: ‘I was in hospital. I was in the ICU. My lungs didn’t work, I couldn’t breathe on my own.’

Madonna has repeatedly credited her children with helping her through her shocking health crisis last year, when she underwent a stint in intensive care

‘The enthusiasm kept me going!!!’ she wrote about her children: ‘They also went to school and rehearsed every evening’

Madonna gushed: ‘I think what my children have learned the most from rehearsing and performing this year is that if you want to follow your dreams, you have to work hard for them’

She continued, “My kidneys were failing. I was infected with a bacteria that no one knows anything about. And there is a 40% mortality rate.”

Madonna recalled: ‘When I woke up, I saw all my children around me and I thought this would save me. My children will save me. It’s not me who saved them.’

Guy Oseary, who has been her manager since 2005 and before that her business partner, rushed to her bedside when her health plummeted.

‘My manager came to me and he was standing next to me crying. Two weeks later I came home from the hospital and no one knew when I would get better. “He said, ‘Do you want to go back on the road? Do you want your tour to continue?'” Madonna said.

‘I was breathing oxygen through a cannula through my nose, I could barely get out of bed to walk to the bathroom and I said, ‘Give me two weeks to think about it.’

She reflected, “You know, I consider myself Wonder Woman. I think I can overcome anything, anything except I can show the will this time.”

Madonna added: “I didn’t have the strength. I had no energy, it was taken away from me. So the two weeks passed and I still had hardly any energy. I could drink espressos, four Red Bulls. Nothing woke me up. I had no life force.”

But her “children saved me,” the Express Yourself singer reiterated. “They kept me going and I recovered faster than most people would.”