Dark Days
Following the birth of one of her children with Brian Blosil, Marie Osmond began to experience some worrisome symptoms. These included self-pity, despair, crippling weariness, and “uncontrollable shaking”. Her doctors diagnosed postpartum depression, which is today considered to afflict ten to twenty percent of women. In addition, her career appeared to be sinking again, this time permanently. Country music had evolved, and Osmond’s pop flair no longer worked. By the beginning of the 1990s, Osmond’s career in music appeared to be coming to an end.
Dark Days
Donny & Marie Again
Marie Osmond reunited with her brother to restart their Donny & Marie program in 1998, hoping to discover something that would work for her. In another setback for the lone Osmond daughter, things did not go as well the second time around. Marie realized that her brother approached the production like a tyrant, yelling the odds and pushing his sister’s suggestions to the sidelines. Marie, now older and more experienced, was less tolerant of this, and sibling squabbles escalated into disruptive arguments. Marie, for her part, had become something of a diva, continually requesting larger dressing rooms or lighting modifications to improve her appearance on TV. The Osmonds hired a director to help keep things on track, but they shouldn’t have bothered; the concert was a fiasco nevertheless.
Donny & Marie Again
