The wife of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff says that she and Bernie were so upset after the collapse of his multi-billion-dollar fraud that they decided to commit suicide together on Christmas Eve according to ABC News Brian Ross and Mark Schone.
"I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening," Ruth Madoff told Morley Safer of CBS News. "We had terrible phone calls. Hate mail, just beyond anything and I said '...I just can't go on anymore.'"
Ruth Madoff says that she and her husband downed pills, Ambien and perhaps Klonopin, on Christmas Eve, 2008, just after their sons Mark and Andrew had turned Bernie into federal authorities. She says she didn't mix with the pills with alcohol because she was afraid they would vomit the pills back up.
"I took what we had, he took more," said Ruth. "We took pills and woke up the next day....It was very impulsive and I am glad we woke up."
If you are having suicidal thoughts and live in the Detroit area contact the Henry Ford Health System's Depression Care Program.
The Depression Care Program at Henry Ford Health System is a unique program for patients with depression. The Depression Care Program has resulted in two and a half years without a single suicide from Henry Ford's patient population.
Henry Ford's Perfect Depression Care Program has been nationally recognized and awarded the Joint Commission's Ernest Armory Codman Award, a health care award that recognizes excellence in performance measurement.
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