True to form, Madonna is using sarcasm and self-awareness to reclaim the narrative around her heavily criticized appearance at the 2023 Grammy Awards.

On Monday, the Queen of Pop alluded to the media firestorm that ensued after she appeared at the Feb. 5 ceremony while sharing a new photo of herself on Twitter.

Look how cute i am now that swelling from surgery has gone down. Lol, she wrote alongside the photo, which appears to have been taken amid preparations for her forthcoming Celebration Tour . She then concluded the tweet with a laughing emoji.

Madonna, a seven-time Grammy winner, briefly took the stage at the 2023 awards to introduce Sam Smith and Kim Petras. She was a fitting choice given that Unholy , Smith and Petras smash single, melds sexual and religious imagery in the same vein as her own 1989 classic, Like a Prayer .

Im here to give thanks to all the rebels out there, forging a new path and taking the heat for all of it, she said of Smith, who is nonbinary, and Petras, a transgender woman.