Madonna paid her respects as she visited her brother’s grave (Picture: Instagram)
Grieving pop star Madonna made a heartbreaking trip as she visited her brother’s grave this weekend.
The Vogue hitmaker, 66, was joined by her model daughter Lourdes, 28, in Michigan as they paid their respects to Christopher Ciccone.
Ciccone died on October 4 at the age of 63 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
His loss caused further devastation for the famous family, as Ciccone died just weeks after Madonna’s stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, died from a ‘very aggressive’ cancer.
Taking to her Instagram Story last night, Madonna shared a series of intimate snaps from her visit to her late sibling’s headstone.
At Calvary Cemetery in Kawkawlin, the star shared a close-up of her brother’s green marble gravestone, featuring his name, date of birth, and death date, writing one emotional word alongside it: ‘Homecoming………….’
Christopher Ciccone died of pancreatic cancer (Picture: Instagram)
The singer posted a photo of the flowers she laid (Picture: Instagram)
Madonna also shared photos of the red roses she left on Ciccone’s grave and a clip of Levon Henry playing Duke Ellington’s Single Petal of a Rose on the saxophone during the service.
The Material Girl vocalist visited her mother’s grave in the cemetery too, as she kneeled by the headstone, bowing her head and clasping her hands in front of her as she laid flowers.
Wearing a striped navy suit, she covered her head with a patterned scarf and shielded her eyes with sunglasses.
Madonna Fortin Ciccone died on December 1, 1963, at the age of 30. Madonna, who was just five at the time, had been named after her.
Remembering her late mother, she took daughter Lourdes to the cemetery, wearing all black as she posed for a photo beside her grandmother’s gravestone, holding pink and red roses.
It comes after Madonna paid tribute to her brother in the days after his death, calling him ‘the closest human to [her] for so long.’
Her mother is buried at the same cemetery (Picture: Instagram)
She was joined by daughter Lourdes, 28, for the emotional visit (Picture: Instagram)
According to an insider, via The Daily Mail, Ciccone lived with Madonna in Los Angeles for over a year before he died.
While their relationship was previously strained, this was something they worked on as they grew closer during his final months.
Reflecting on their time together, Madonna’s heartfelt tribute recalled how they ‘took each other‘s hands and danced through the madness of [their] childhood’.
She said their bond would be difficult to explain, but said ‘it grew out of an understanding that [they] were different and society was going to give [them] a hard time for not following the status quo.’
The American star said Ciccone was ‘by [her] side’ through the highs and lows of life, hailing him as not only a painter and a poet, but a ‘visionary’.
‘I admired him. He had impeccable taste. And a sharp tongue, which he sometimes used against me but I always forgave him,’ her tribute added.
Madonna grew closer to her sibling in his final days (Picture: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)
They managed to heal their fractured relationship (Picture: Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
‘We soared the highest heights together and floundered in the lowest lows.
‘Somehow, we always found each other again and we held hands and we kept dancing.’
Concluding her message, Madonna confessed that recent years were ‘not easy’ for the siblings, as they did not speak for ‘some time’.
However, after his cancer diagnosis, they reconnected and she ‘did [her] best to keep him alive as long as possible’.
On his final moments, she shared: ‘He was in so much pain towards the end.
‘Once again, we held hands, we closed our eyes and we danced. Together.’
Madonna is now ‘glad’ he isn’t suffering, but said: ‘There will never be anyone like him.’
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