Donny Osmond “lost everything” in the 1980s and nearly went bankrupt.
The 65-year-old star – who has sons Don, Jeremy, Brandon, Christopher and Joshua with wife Debbie – shot to fame with his four brothers as part of family music group The Osmonds in the 1960s before breaking into a successful career as a solo artist in his own right and even though he ultimately fell on hard times financially, insisted that ‘happiness’ doesn’t come from money.
He told this week’s edition of CloserUS: “It hasn’t been easy raising five boys. The more you show them unconditional love, the easier it can be, but that never eliminates all the big ones. problems. We went through a period where we had no money, although there was certainly a lot of love at home. I lost everything in the 80s and almost went bankrupt. L Money doesn’t buy happiness. It’s more important to have unconditional love that doesn’t “It doesn’t cost anything. We have tried to create this kind of environment in our home, and I hope this attitude has spread to the homes of our children. It has a lot to do with loving yourself, loving your neighbour, loving God and being kind.” . We definitely need a little more of that in this world.”
Donny – who now has a reported net worth of $18million – enjoyed further success with his sister Marie when they teamed up as a pop duo in the late 1970s before the couple presented a talk show. daytime show in the 1990s and continues to perform in an 11-year residency in Las Vegas, but explained that if he had to say anything to his younger self, it would be “to have patience” afterwards. having suffered from anxiety about the “pressure” of a career in show business.
He added @ “I was telling myself to have patience. I went through a lot of terrible anxiety in my thirties. It started when I was about 11. The show business pressure came to a head when I was in my thirties while playing Joseph [in ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’] I didn’t have enough patience to realize, “Donny, you’re only human. You will make mistakes. So many people struggle when they try to be perfect. We cannot be perfect. We can only try.”
