In a revealing and often heartbreaking interview scheduled to air this afternoon on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Marie Osmond talks publicly for the first time about the suicide death of her son Michael.
“I’ve been through some tough things in my life,” she tells Winfrey. “This is the hardest thing I’ve been through.”
Marie Osmond with Oprah - from YouTube.com
Michael Blosil, the adopted son of Osmond and her second husband, Brian, leaped to his death from an apartment building in Los Angeles on Feb. 26. He was 18.
Blosil had long suffered from depression and had been admitted into a substance abuse rehabilitation facility in November 2007.
Osmond has suffered from postpartum depression and told Winfrey that she was aware of her son’s own battle with depression. A note left behind by Blosil said he’d long battled the condition and that it made him feel as if he had no friends.
Osmond also said she’d planned to visit her son the Monday after he committed suicide, telling him, “Mike, I’m going to be there Monday, and it’s going to be OK.” Osmond has said she found those drives to Los Angeles to see her son one of her favorite ways to unwind, but Blosil died on the Friday before she was able to leave Las Vegas to visit him.
As Osmond told Winfrey, “Depression doesn’t wait until Monday.”
The interview airs at 2 p.m. today on KLAS Channel 8.
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