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Madonna said there were days when she was exhausted during her recent “MDNA” world tour, but she decided to press on. Fans won’t see those behind-the scenes battles in her new concert film, The MDNA Tour, which premieres Saturday on the online and cable channel Epix. But they will see the 54-year-old pop icon performing - mainly highlights from her Miami shows - for two hours on her tour, which started in May of last year and wrapped in December. “There’s no such thing as not in the mood because the show must go on, right?” the singer said at the film’s premiere Tuesday night at New York’s Paradise Theater. “I’m a human being like everybody else, so I would have my nights, my bad nights, and I would cry and I would say, ‘I don’t want to do this.’” Madonna told a crowd of fans, her dancers, her tour team, socialites and members of press that she wanted her shows to be a relief for those paying to see her. “I sold the tickets and I can’t let my audience down,” she told the crowd of a few hundred.“Before every show everyone came into my dressing room and we got in a circle and said prayers and 50 percent of the time I said them, and 49 percent of the time I was crying, usually from over-exhaustion. But there’s something about pushing yourself out there when it’s pouring rain or you’re freezing cold or you don’t feel well or something really crazy happened in the world like Hurricane Sandy.”

Danielle Bradbery has The Voice - and the microphone-holding trophy to match. The 16-year-old country singer said she was “overwhelmed with emotion” when she was crowned the winner of the NBC singing competition Tuesday. “I mean confetti and fireworks in the background and being handed this really heavy trophy. It was all so incredibly overwhelming,” Bradbery said of her crowning moment. “But I mean, I finished the song like they told me to. But yeah, it was scary.” No one was more proud than Bradbery’s coach, Blake Shelton, who happened to be celebrating his 37th birthday. “I’ve been drinking. Just so you know, I’ll be honest,” he admitted on the post-show red carpet. “This started out a special day because it’s my birthday. And my wife’s here with me, and we’ve been having fun. We watched last night’s episode on DVR when we got home, and the two of us decided that it’s up in the air. … To see that Danielle won, that’s a big deal for me obviously. But it’s a bigger deal for this show because Danielle Bradbery is actually a true amateur and we saw her go from being that to a pro before our very eyes.”