Madonna, devastated after the death of her brother Anthony: he was an alcoholic and came to live under a bridge

Madonna This Sunday she mourned the death of her older brother with whom, according to herself, she did not have a good relationship. Anthony Ciccone He died in a shelter. She was 66 years old, suffered from alcoholism and even lived for years under a bridge. In total, there were six brothers.

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The death was announced a few hours ago by the musician Joe Henry, husband of Melanie, brother of Madonna: “My brother-in-law, Anthony Gerard Ciccone, left this earthly plane last night. I have known him since he was 15 years old, in the spring of our lives in Michigan, all those years ago.”

With these words he recalled the brother of the queen of pop: “Anthony was a complex character; and God knows: we got tangled up at times, as true brothers can. But I loved him and understood him better than I was willing to sometimes. hinting”.

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And he concluded with a moving farewell: “Goodbye, then, brother Anthony. I want to think that the God in whom your blessed mother (and mine) believed has her there, waiting to receive you. At least for today, no one will dissuade me from this vision”.

the singer of Like a Virgin He once recognized that his relationship with his older brother was complicated. His environment explained that she tried to help him, without much success. He, for his part, came to charge against his relatives: “I am a zero in his eyes, a non-person. I am a shame. If I freeze to death, my family probably wouldn’t know it.” Anthony Ciccone went through a rehabilitation center, but his life was never fully redirected.