Marie Osmond opens up about son's suicide

By Staff Writer

In the wake of many teen suicides across the country, Marie Osmond, television personality and pop icon, is opening up about the loss of her son. This week, the star was on the Oprah show to discuss the pain she experienced at the death of depressed Michael Bryan, Monsters and Critics reports.

Osmond broke down in tears as she told Oprah Winfrey about the suicide of her son.

"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 told Winfrey. "I am not a depressed person, but I absolutely understand that place, the darkness."

Michael Bryan committed suicide in February by jumping to his death from his apartment in Los Angeles.

"I told him 'Mike, I will be there on Monday and everything is going to be okay'. But depression does not wait until Monday," she continued, quoted by the news source. "I have been through some tough things in my life. This is probably the hardest thing I've been through."

According to PBS, approximately 4 percent of adolescents develop serious depression each year.