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Madonna talks BRIT Awards fall to Jonathan Ross

Madonna opened up to Jonathan Ross about her now infamous fall during her performance at The BRIT Awards on Wednesday night.

Recording a special edition of The Jonathan Ross Show, due to air in March, Madonna denied that her fall was a publicity stunt. Madonna shook her head and said: ā€œIā€™m never writing lyrics like that again! The universe was trying to teach me a lesson I guess.ā€

The pop icon explained what went wrong saying, ā€œIā€™m a creature of habit and I rehearse everything – everything, everything, everything – and I was thrown a wrench at the very beginning of my entrance. I was told to tie my cape and start much further back than we had rehearsed so because I had to walk so much further, everybody was worried that my cape was going to slide off because itā€™s quite heavy so they tied it really tight around my neckā€¦ So here I am marching in like a queen and I got to the top of the stairs and I pulled my silky string and it would not come undone and my two lovely japanese dancers basically strangled me off the stage. I had a choice, I could either be strangled or fall with the cape and I fell.ā€

She admitted to Jonathan that she did hurt herself in the fall. ā€œI didnā€™t hurt my butt, I hurt my head. I did. I know how to fall, Iā€™ve fallen off my horse many times and I tucked and I have good core strength… but the thing is, I had a little bit of a whiplash and I smacked the back of my head so there was a man standing over me with a flashlight until about 3am making sure that I was still compos mentis.ā€

Jonathan offered to show her a clip of the moment but Madonna refused saying she didn’t want to see it. ā€œIt was a horrible nightmare because I like to be amazing. Seriously I rehearse and I rehearse and I rehearse so that when I do the show, itā€™s effortless and I create magic and I did the opposite. I actually created a horror show for everyone,ā€ she joked.

The Jonathan Ross Show Madonna Special airs Saturday 14th March 2015. Watch a clip from the interview below:

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