Marie Osmond is not just an entertainer she’s a force of nature.
No, I was working.
I was recording."
“When I was 8 or 9, I actually thought I was gay,” she said.
I didn’t trust them, I didn’t like them" (viaPeople).
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She was pulled aside and brutally body-shamed by the powers that be at the studio.
But after her son Matthew was born in 1999, Osmond experienced a bout of serious postpartum depression.
I went into absolute muscle spasms where I couldn’t get out of bed.
I couldn’t move my arms" (viaNew York Post).
The stress became so intense that Osmond left her children with a babysitter and drove away.
When she returned home days later, she was diagnosed with depression.
Luckily no one was hurt, but the damage from the fire was significant.
“I ran through the house, got all my kids,” Blosil toldDeseret News.
According to Osmond, the fire was a wake-up call that pushed her to end her marriage.
I really believe it was God they say, ‘The burning within.’
So sometimes these things happen to wake us up."
But even the most seasoned performers can have an off night.
He added, “I was obviously very concerned.”
Osmond was unconscious for about 30 seconds, but she came to with her signature sense of humor.
According to her partner, Roberts, “She looked around … and she said, ‘Oh, crap.
I fainted on live TV.'”
Osmond blamed her collapse on a combination of allergies and poor air quality.
Osmond was not voted off that week and even ended up coming in third for the entire competition.
Michael Blosil was just 18 years old when he died by suicide in 2010.
“And I believed him,” she said.
“I knew,” Osmond said.
“It was Mike.”
Even though Osmond has been seemingly unstoppable in the ensuing years, the grief has remained.
the accident also occurred just four years after the death of Marie’s son Michael Blosil.
How sad it is to lose someone so sweet and so young" (via RadarOnline).
“I’ve had a lot of loss in my life and difficult things.
Everybody does, I’m not saying there’s any difference.
But I have great faith.”
