On 'Oprah Winfrey,' Marie Osmond Denies Her Son Was Gay
PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 11, 2010
Marie Osmond has denied her son committed suicide at 18 because he
was gay, then added that if he was she wouldn't care.
In an appearance Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Osmond opened
up for the first time about the loss of her son.
“My son was not gay,” Osmond said.
Osmond said Michael Blosil wanted to get married, travel and start a family.
“And it wouldn't matter if he was,” the 51-year-old Mormon mother added.
“I have a daughter who is gay, and it was my daughter who was offended
by it. 'What? All kids commit suicide?' She really wanted it cleared up.”
Rumors that Blosil was gay surfaced on the Internet after he jumped to
his death in Los Angeles last February.
The freshman student at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
in California first attempted to end his life in 2007 after his parents
divorced. He is one of five children adopted by the couple.
Blosil battled substance abuse and depression much of life.
His suicide note “said he knew that morning that was the last time he
would get up and brush his teeth, eat breakfast, make his bed – those
kinds of things,” Osmond told Oprah. “And that he loved his family, but
the pain was so intense.”
Osmond has dedicated her new album I Can Do This to the memory of
her son.
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