Madonna Shocking 'COLLAPSE' at VMAs Return Goes Viral...

wenty-three years. That's how long Madonna stayed off the stage of the M.T.V. Video Music Awards, a show she's been part of since its very first night. On Sunday, the twenty-seventh of September, she came back and opened it. By the end of the night she'd won seven awards, more than any other artist. And by the next morning, a very different word was following her name around online. Collapse. The clip people keep passing around is only a few seconds long. The sixty-eight-year-old Queen of Pop appears to be helped up onto the stage by two people, and the post on top of it asks why she was "struggling so much right here." Then came the reports. Sources told a Hollywood gossip newsletter that she was "wobbling back and forth to her seat in the audience to accept awards." One of them said, "People who have worked around her for years had never seen her like this." Think about why that word lands so hard on her, of all people. By her own account, she rehearses everything. And three years ago, Madonna woke up in intensive care. That's the fear