Marie Osmond’s son, Michael committed suicide on Friday night after battling severe depression. Marie Osmond’s son, Michael Blosil, 18, jumped from his apartment building to his death Friday night in Los Angeles, after leaving a suicide note.
Saturday, Donny Osmond told Entertainment Tonight: "Please pray for my sister and her family."
Michael had been suffering from severe depression, and entered a rehab center in 2007. The reason for rehab was never disclosed.
Michael was one of five adopted children of Marie Osmond and her ex-husband, Brian Blosil.
Blosil left a suicide note in his apartment before he jumped from the building. The note said that he was terribly unhappy, had few friends and felt like he did not fit in, according to an Entertainment Tonight interview with Mary Hart.
A female friend of Michael’s found the note in his apartment after she received a text message from Blosil.
The Osmond family lives in Utah, but Donny and Marie have been in Las Vegas for a show that they have been perfoming for about a year. Michael lived in Las Vegas with them part of the time.
ABC News reported this statement from Marie Osmond who said that the family is “devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time.”
“You can bet she has loving arms around her,” Hart said of Marie Osmond. “The Osmonds are a very close-knit family and, in times of loss or tragedy, they support each other and really band together as a family, and in love.”
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Nice article Marci but such a dreadfully inappropriate picture in light of the devastating news the article relates. Just a friendly note.
It seems that Marie is smiling in every photo. Other websites have the same problem with this story.
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