Justin Timberlake mentioned having to drop trou for Her Madge-esty when he inducted Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night. The Sun quotes him as saying

“We had a recording session in London and I wasn’t feeling well. She reached into her handbag, pulled a ziplock bag of B12 syringes and says: ‘Drop ‘em.’ I don’t know what you say to that, so I dropped my pants. She gave me the shot in my ass. That is what Madonna will always be to us. The shot in the ass when we really need it.”

Curiously, Madonna is the first Rock and Roll Hall of Famer not to perform at their own induction in history. But Madonna swears it’s less of a display of pompous ingratitude and more of an issue of her increasingly frequent panic attacks. In an interview with Dazed & Confused Magazine, she says

“I have panic attacks where I feel like everyone is breathing my air and I cannot live up to everybody’s expectations and I might just die on stage. I normally try to turn my back to the audience, take a deep breath and remind myself that it’s all temporary. It’s hard to describe.”

Then she said, “I get this numbness and tingling down my arm and a sort of heavy sensation on my chest — you know, like someone’s sitting on it — accompanied by shortness of breath and light-headedness… now wait just a bloomin’ minute — who changed the channel? Everybody knows I watch ‘Wheel’ after ‘Perry Mason!’ Goddammit! And there’s corn in this! You know I can’t digest corn!” before the nurse came in to empty her bedpan and give her her calcium supplement and blood thinner again.

Madonna veining it up at the Waldorf-Astoria: