Madonna gets angry! Singer channels her rage into her new album Confessions II as she berates ex Sean Penn for being 'threatened' by her and the 'betrayal' of her late stepmother

has channelled her rage into her new hotly-anticipated album Confessions 2 as she took swipes at her ex-husband and her late stepmother Joan.

The American pop icon, 67, talks about her 'movie star with deep blue eyes' in her track Bizarre, which is likely a reference to Sean, who she was married to for three and a half years in the eighties.

The lyrics accused Sean of being 'threatened by her' level of fame, suggesting the Hollywood actor wasn't prepared to 'share the red carpet' with her.

She also name checks the 1968 Shelby GT500 convertible she gave him as a wedding gift and his conviction for reckless driving in 1987.

Madonna has portrayed her relationship with Sean as intense and often turbulent, but she has consistently spoken of him with warmth in later years.

At a 2016 charity gala for his Haiti relief work, Madonna told him from the stage: 'I love you from the moment that I laid eyes on you. And I still love you just the same.'

So her new jibe may take the star by surprise, as it was previously understood that they still had a mutual respect and liking for each other.

In the song, Madge sings: 'Love is the strangest thing. Just when you think you've finally let go, it comes back to you.

'Movie star, deep blue eyes. In Hollywood, we're a perfect prize. He drove way too fast, Shelby Cobra wasn't meant to last.'

Elsewhere in the same song, she turns to anger and sings: 'Roll out the carpet for us, but you don't share it. All 'cause you're threatened by me, you won't admit it.

'The little things that you do don't make me want you. Who knew love could be so bizarre?'

Later, she says: 'I know I left you behind and you resent me. A thousand reasons why you could never have me. The thought of being with you is so indecent. I guess you'll never know my dirty little secret.'

In another track, pointedly named Betrayal, Madonna turns her disdain to her late stepmother Joan, who passed away in 2024 while the album was being made.

Madonna, who did not attend Joan's funeral, lost her mother age five to breast cancer and three years later her father Silvio remarried. 

The song lyrics read: 'This is a story of betrayal. You couldn't see your fall from grace. So take the hammer, hit the nail. You'll never take my mother's place.'

And later in the track, she adds: 'You betrayed me, you enslaved me.'

Madonna also sings about her near-death experience in 2023, when she was found unresponsive in her apartment in New York.

The star was placed into an induced coma after an infection developed into potentially deadly sepsis. 

Madonna leant on her daughter Lourdes, 29, for support at the time and she credits her for aiding her recovery in the song, The Test, in which Lourdes features.

Madonna sings: 'You made me whole when I was broken, too. I hope and pray I can do the same for you.'

Paying tribute to her mum, Lourdes sings: 'You are my reason to be, what I want or look like, what I wear, all the clothes on my back, and what I attract.

'I trace the line of what you have sewn. Keep my own design. Make it a landscape. Make it alive.'

Madonna admitted her daughter was 'very standoffish' to work with on their new song, as she finally addressed their rift.

The Queen of Pop opened up to on his show Madonna & Graham and said Lourdes 'held onto a lot of resentment' with her over the years.

Despite the tension between the mother and daughter duo, Madonna said writing a song together 'healed' their relationship. 

In the episode, which aired Friday night, Madonna explained: 'She approached me, she's been very reluctant to work with me. She doesn't want to be perceived as my daughter, taking advantage of her privilege.'

Graham asked: 'How does that feel? Was it like working with a professional or a proud mother?'

'It was kind of neither', she said. 'She's been very standoffish and working at her own pace, and I respect that deeply. She's a great songwriter and has a much better voice than I do.'

Madonna recently detailed her experience of being in a coma for two days after suffering a bacterial infection and . 

She was taken to the ICU and had to be intubated and put into a medically induced coma in 2023 as she battled for her life despite going into lung and kidney failure.

At the time, the singer was forced to pause her tour, but made a full recovery and returned to the stage a few months later.

Speaking to Vogue in her home in London, Madonna introduced fans to Octavia, the purple stuffed octopus she sleeps with each night.

She said in a video, released on Wednesday : 'This is my do-do. Her name is Octavia. I sleep with her every night. A couple of years ago I was really sick in the hospital. I was in a coma and this beautiful nurse that was taking care of me, her name was Olivia. 

'She was screaming at me every day, telling me I needed to get up, I needed to get out of the ICU, and she really gave me a lot of courage and hope.

'When I got out of the hospital and came home, my sister gave me this octopus. I looked at her and all I could think about was my nurse who took care of me.'

Madonna explained Octavia is inspired by Olivia's name and did not specify which of her three sisters - Paula, 66, Melanie, 64, and Jennifer, 58 - gave her the stuffed animal.

'She's been with me ever since,' she said. 'The stuffing is starting to get kind of gross, but I love her. I adore her.'

In 2024, Madonna returned to the stage for her Celebration Tour show in Los Angeles and reflected on the 'near death' experience. 

She told the crowd: 'This show every night is not really so hard on me physically. It’s hard on me emotionally because I’m really telling you the story of my life.  

'My heart is on my sleeve. I’ve fallen off a lot of horses and broken a lot of bones… but nothing can stop me.'

Madonna went on to reveal the first word she allegedly said after waking from her 48 hour coma: 'No!'

'I’m pretty sure that was God saying to me, "Do you want to come? Want to come up with me?"' To which she replied, 'No!'

The Into The Groove singer revealed that one of the doctors who had cared for her during her health scare was in the audience that night, and she recalled how he coached her through her difficult recovery period after she was discharged from the hospital.

'I would call in every other day and ask [my doctor] why I didn’t have any energy, when was my energy going to come back? When was I going to feel like myself again? When can I go on tour again?' she recalled.

'All he would say is, "Go outside in the sun" … It was so hard for me to walk from my house to the backyard and sit in the sun. I know that sounds insane, but it was difficult,' she admitted. 'It’s a strange thing to finally not feel like I was in control, and that was my lesson… to let go.'

The singer (born Madonna Ciccone) credited her six kids with helping to get her back on her feet and in front of adoring audiences again.

'My children are what really helped me pull through because they worked so hard,' she shared. 'I didn’t want to let them down, so I just set a date. And that date became reality.'

'But then one day she came to me and said "You know what, I realise I've been holding onto something" and maybe it's a kind of I want to say anger, what's another word, maybe resentment? 

'At the end of the day, she didn't ask for this. She had been through her adolescence struggling with those feelings for a long time.

'So she came to me and said "Let's write a song together, I think it will be a very healing experience. You say exactly what you want to say and I will say exactly what I want to say".

'And I was like "Okay, you're on, let's do it, I was so happy". Her lyrics are beautiful.'