Madonna, 63, has recalled nearly being arrested in 1990 during her Blonde Ambition tour due to the explicit dance moves she performed to her hit Like A Virgin.The singer was "threatened" with arrest and even had her shows at the Vatican that year cancelled.Madonna took to Instagram to share a snapshot of her Like A Virgin performance on her 1990 tour.The tour generated controversy due to its use of Catholic imagery and sexual content, especially with the explicit dance moves during the Like A Virgin performance.The singer wrote in view of her 18.4 million followers: "Police threatened to arrest me three times as I travelled around the world performing Like A Virgin - during the Blonde Ambition tour."The Vatican cancelled all my shows in Rome!
See how I paved the road for b*****s?"Her shows in Italy were cancelled due to a private association of Roman Catholics who called for a boycott of the shows in Rome and Turin.This was due to Madonna using simulated masturbation in her Like A Virgin choreography that included her groping herself as well as humping a bed during the live performance.Pope John Paul II urged the public and the Christian community at the time not to attend the tour, as he called it "One of the most satanic shows in the history of humanity".Due to this controversy, Madonna held a press conference in Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport defending her much loved tour.She said: "I am Italian American and proud of it...The tour in no way hurts anybody's sentiments."It's for open minds and gets them to see sexuality in a different way."Their own and others [...] Like theater, [Blonde Ambition] asks questions, provokes thought and takes you on an emotional journey, portraying good and bad, light and dark,.
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