Marie Osmond, the only female among the eight brothers, joined the Osmond Brothers when she was four years old. She, on the other hand, was not a regular on the group’s television performances during the 1960s.
Marie began her solo career at the age of 12 and had her first recording session, which she subsequently recalled as horrifying. “There was an orchestra and a rhythm section.” “I was the only Osmond girl; what if I didn’t succeed?” she said. “So I puked!” Then I went in and started singing.”
Michael, her son, committed suicide in 2010. Her supporters were startled to see her return to the stage so soon after the awful occurrence.
“It was really difficult for me to return to the stage two weeks after he died, but I had to show my children that I decided to live. It was quite difficult, and we have discussed it. I know there are other families who refuse to discuss it. My children lost a sibling in the same way that I lost a son, and they are still processing it.”
Marie recounted the moment she found out about her son’s death. She had just ended a performance at the Flamingo Las Vegas when her security guard at home called. He informed her that the Coroner’s office had been to visit her.
“I knew it was Mike,” Marie said later in an interview with Oprah.
Michael was one of five children Marie and Brian adopted while still married.
Brian committed suicide by jumping from his eighth-floor apartment. He struggled with heroin addiction since a young age, but was able to overcome it with the help of his family. He mentioned in the note he left before his suicide that he had been suffering from depression for some time.
“[He] was perhaps the easiest of my children. He was a lot of fun. And adorable. I didn’t see a change in my son until he started using drugs.”
She remembered him calling her on the day he died and sounding angry.
“It was the first time I heard him cry and confess he felt lonely. That he didn’t have any friends. That he was depressed,” Marie stated. “I promised him, ‘Mike, I’ll be there Monday, and everything will be fine.’” However, despair does not wait till Monday.”
Marie went on to discuss her personal battles with depression, saying that she was able to overcome them due to her age, but “children don’t have that type of age behind them… Everything [looks] hopeless when they’re 18.”
“I believe there are always ‘what ifs.’” What if I had just thrown him on a plane and said, “Come be with me, or go there?” “I think if you live your life in ‘what ifs,’ you stop living,” Marie explained.
We are deeply saddened by Marie Osmond’s passing.
The pain of losing a child never goes away, no matter how much time passes.
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