Marie Osmond will not be leaving any of her money for her youngsters when she dies.
The 60-year-old singer believes it could be a ”disservice” to her youngsters – Stephen Jr., 36, Jessica, 32, Rachael, 30, Brandon, 23, Brianna, 22, Matthew, 20, and Abigail, 17 – if she left a few of her fortune to them in her will, as a result of it is going to take away ”one of the crucial essential presents” she thinks mother and father may give their youngsters, which is the ”skill to work”.
Instead, Marie – who has Stephen Jr. together with her partner Stephen Craig, and her different youngsters, together with late son Michael, with ex-husband Brian Blosil – plans to depart her cash to charity.
Speaking throughout an episode of ‘The Talk’, she mentioned: ”I’m not leaving any cash to my youngsters. Congratulations, youngsters.
”I feel you do an awesome disservice to your youngsters to only hand them a fortune since you take away the one most essential present you may give your youngsters, and that is the flexibility to work. You see it so much in wealthy households the place the children, they do not know what to do and they also get in bother. Let them be pleased with what they make. I’m going to present mine to my charity.”
The ‘Paper Roses’ hitmaker has spoken out about her parenting selections previously, as she mentioned final yr she was sick of guardian shaming within the wake of the dying of her son Michael, who took his personal life in 2010.
Marie went again to work per week after Michael’s funeral, and admitted she was devastated when trolls on-line slammed her for her resolution.
She mentioned: ”I’ve been shamed earlier than. You know, in the event you take the subject of disgrace, you possibly can say what you need about me, however after they begin attacking your youngsters or your loved ones or these kind of issues, I feel this world is in to an excessive amount of of this shaming factor. For instance, when my son died, I selected to go to work per week after his funeral. And the folks had been so merciless, due to me selecting to point out my youngsters they needed to hold residing … It harm my youngsters greater than something that they’d undergo that.”
