Posted by Adam

Thursday November 11, 2010

MARIE Osmond has opened up about her teenage son’s suicide.

Michael Blosil, 18, leapt to his death in February after sending a text message to a female friend alerting her to a suicide note he had left in his downtown Los Angeles apartment.

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Marie recalled the very last conversation she had with Michael. He had told her he had no friends and was in despair.

“When I heard him say to me, I have no friends, it brought back when I went through depression, because you really feel so alone,” Osmond said.

“I’m not a depressed person, but I understand that place, that darkness,” she said, referring to her own post-partum depression.

“I told him, I said, ‘Mike, I’m gonna be there Monday and it’s gonna be OK.’

“But depression doesn’t wait ’til Monday,” she said sadly.

Overwhelmed by grief, Marie revealed that her sudden return to the Las Vegas stage within weeks of her son’s suicide was a “calculated decision” because the “stage is my safe place.”

Marie confessed that “I knew that if I didn’t get back on stage that I may never get back on stage.”

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