Madonna waded into COVID-19 controversy last week and fans are still upset about it. In fact, many say they’re breaking up with her. And we think they might be serious.
It all started when the singer shared a coronavirus propaganda video and voiced her support for Dr. Stella Immanuel, the quack physician who’s been promoting hydroxychloroquine, encouraging people not to wear face masks, and warning about “demon sperm” and alien babies.
“The truth will set us all free!” Madonna wrote on Instagram last Wednesday. “This woman is my hero … Thank you Stella Immanuel.”
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A backlash ensued, with many of her biggest fans voicing their disapproval of her endorsement of Immanuel.
The video was quickly flagged by fact checkers for being inaccurate and removed from Madonna’s page by the Instagram police.
Afterwards, the singer purportedly reposted it, along with a complaint about censorship, before it was, once again, removed.
Jamie Tabberer at Metro published a critical op-ed today saying Madonna may have done irreparable damage to her legacy with all this coronavirus trutherism nonsense.
“Madonna’s fall from grace, once inconceivable, now seems a genuine possibility,” Tabberer writes. “What’s worse is we might already be in the middle of it.”
Related: Madonna doesn’t apologize, would like everyone to just forget that terrible video she shared… OK?
Meanwhile, our friend Matthew Rettenmund, author of Encyclopedia Madonnica, the definitive source on all-things Madonna, tweeted last week:
“Sorry, @Madonna, but you can’t just delete and retreat. We deserve an explanation, and you should repudiate your hero for the day, Dr. Stella Immanuel. This goes beyond fandom.”
Sorry, @Madonna, but you can't just delete and retreat. We deserve an explanation, and you should repudiate your hero for the day, Dr. Stella Immanuel. This goes beyond fandom. https://t.co/oPMoIdq58M
— Boy Culture Blog (@mattrett) July 29, 2020
What do you think? Did Madonna finally take it too far by peddling propaganda during a global pandemic? Can she ever come back after this? Or will exposing herself as a COVID-19 truther be the end of her storied career? Sound off in the comments section below…
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Cam
It isn’t just the Covid Conspiracies she’s retweeting, but the woman she called a “Hero” is a rabid anti – LGBTQ bigot.
innocentgay
Oh shii. Another queen lost to dementia. I shall mourn her the same way I mourned Roseanne; respect for her accomplishments and pity for what has happened to her. ‘Course, I haven’t really listened to anything since Ray of Light, so no huge loss. Too bad she didn’t retire in 2018, really.
Neoprene
Confessions on a Dance Floor was good. That was about 2005 I think. I’m on about year 15 of Madonna, meh. Not that I was a big fan girl at any point.
dhmonarch89
if Trump still has a chance at re election (sadly, he does), Madonna can recover- but is there anything from the last 10 years worth recovering- that’s the question.
Neoprene
Hope I’m wrong but I’m still predicting victory by the Orange Tinted Tard. America is not that smart and the young snowflakes won’t turn out for Biden. They’d only turn out for themselves, maybe, if mommy and daddy somehow got them on the ballot.
Aries3dc
If we say “no” will you stop writing about her everyday? It’s amazing that we keep discussing a woman that so many claims is irrelevant.
CarterATL
Considering every female pop star since has imitated Madonna, I don’t think she’ll ever be irrelevant. Her place in music history is cemented. That said, she may have done irreparable damage to whatever future career prospects she had. I’ve been a Madonna fan for decades and can’t get past that she hasn’t apologized or retracted her comments.
joseph_buscarino
Madonna will always be an icon, and many have tried and are still trying to recreate what she has done. That being said, sometimes you need to appreciate a star from what it is, doesn’t mean you have agree or like her as a person .
JPDonahue
Oh! There must be a setting off on your browser.
I don’t have any problem scrolling past a post I have no interest it.
It’s a bummer you’re not only forced to read all posts, but also forced to comment.
mz.sam
Answer: HELL, F*****G NO! Her flapping geriatric mouth is only exceeded by her sagging vaginal folds.
Neoprene
What’s a vaginal fold?
Hdtex
She hasn’t been relevant since 1994. Go away hag.
rjinhou
Hag my a**
Calin
Long Live The Queen!!! LOL. Seriously some of you need to get a hobby ???
sfhairy
She can if she owns up to her mistake. If she doesn’t, well, good luck hunty, good luck.
LARRY
She was so very much for me in the 80’s…now she is just another idiot hack nut job.
rjinhou
She is MADONNA she can do or say anything she wants to again she is MADONNA…She does not need to as you say “Recover” from anything. and why your asking yourselves that because SHE IS MADONNA!!!!!!!! AND SHE IS THE BEST NOW AND ALWAYS…
JPDonahue
Apparently she can’t do anything she wants. Instagram proved that.
However! I’m sure she appreciates your devotion!
Samuel1966
Name the last time Madonna has a hit
Cam
Except that doesn’t seem to be the case here.
JPDonahue
I’m surprised she just didn’t immediately claimed to have been hacked.
That would have been a quick and fairly believable fix.
Has she YET said anything?
I enjoy your on-going coverage of Madonna!!
Jerry
I love the madonnna from the 80s and 90s and the ally she was. I hate to say it but I think I’m done with Madonna of today.
robco
We’ve already given her millions of dollars. Unless she’s pissed it all away on Kabbalah bracelets or Goop trinkets, I think she’ll be OK.
sam83
Does Graham get off to posting negative articles about Madge constantly? The post was dumb and she deleted it. But every Queerty article on Madonna is negative, ageist and sounds like it was written by a Bitter Gen Z-Er unfamiliar with Madonna and more often than not the criticism is totally undeserved. Being said her post was dumb…end of story. Madonna was quick to support a black female doctor without doing any of the research she needed to do before sharing to 15 million followers. But now we continue to relitigate and discuss while ignoring the hundreds of positive things she’s posted in support of BLM and the LGBT community. Madonna is a ally…quit trying to destroy people on our side and go after the true bigots. It’s pathetic this blog goes after a pop star that has been with us from day 1 rather than the people trying to strip away our rights.
Toofie
He alternates hate writing between her and Ellen.
Matthew Rettenmund
So many asshole responses about her appearance or dementia or relevance. The point should be that she believes HCQ works, it does not, and in so sharing that info she embraced someone who it turns out is a quack and a homophobe. She should at the very least recant that. Saying, “I don’t care, I think HCQ works!” makes her ill-informed, but the rest is the stuff that is really alarming. Her boyfriend is an anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist, too, also troubling. But people who use this as an excuse to trash musical choices, fashion, Botox, etc. — you are the trash you’ve been waiting for.
butchqueen
Whatever you do, DO NOT google “madonna fried fish song”.