Singer Marie Osmond said that her son, Michael Blosil, who committed suicide in 2010, was bullied before his death. She revealed that she “never took action” in a recent interview.
“I haven’t spoken about this before but … my son, who died, he was bullied,” she said to her co-hosts. “He was bullied very heavily right up until the time that he committed suicide.”
She claimed that three kids targeted Blosil, who was 18, due to him being sober.
“I’ve got the texts, they’re horrendous and I never took action against it,“ she said, ”but I can tell you honestly that I believe that was a high component in him just feeling overwhelmed and that he didn’t fit in. I never took action against the three kids, I know who they are. Maybe it’s not a bad idea to have some consequence, because it’s getting out of hand.”
He was one of five children that she adopted. She also has three biological children.
Regarding the bullies, Osmond said, “In my heart, I feel they know what they did and they have to live with that consequence. That’s kind of where I stayed on it. But maybe it’ll help other kids that don’t think much about it take it seriously.”
The singer recently opened up about her son’s death, and she revealed she is still dealing with grief.
“The ripple effect is so huge, what you leave behind,” she added.
“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,” she explained at the time. “I’m not a depressed person, but I understand that place, that darkness … I told him, I said, ‘Mike, I’m gonna be there Monday and it’s gonna be OK.’”
