Madonna’s stepmom Joan Ciccone dies at 81 after ‘brief encounter with very aggressive cancer’

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an online obituary stated. “She will be terribly missed by her family and friends whose lives she enriched with her enthusiasm, joy and love.”Madonna was 8 years old when Joan married her father in 1966.

Three years earlier, in December 1963, her mother, also named Madonna, passed away at the age of 30.Though Joan’s obituary stated she had “an instant family” after marry Silvio Ciccone, Madge, 66, had by her own account a difficult relationship with her stepmom as a child.

In 2002, she told Larry King that she “sometimes suffered” during “moments of chaos” in her childhood.“My mother died when I was little and that was difficult for me for a while,” she explained. “I mean truthfully, I didn’t accept my stepmother when I was growing up.

In retrospect, I think that was really hard on her. She was [trying]… I’m very close to my father and I didn’t want to accept change in my life.”Speaking with Rolling Stone in 2015, she said she had “no role model” to look up to as a child because she “didn’t have any relationship with Joan.”Little is known about Joan and Madonna’s relationship over the past few years.