It’s been ten years since Marie Osmond remarried her first husband, Steve Craig, 26 years after they divorced. In a new interview, she opened up about their decision to remarry and about how they are doing these days.
“I think I’m crazy and he tolerates me,” Osmond, 61, said with a laugh to Fox News. “But seriously, it’s the greatest thing in the world. I think you learn what’s important. You learn to let go. We wanted to move forward, communicate better and fix the areas [in our relationship] that needed fixing.”
Osmond met Craig when she was a teenager, and they married in 1982 when she was 22 years-old. She gave birth to their son Steven less than a year later, but their marriage went downhill from there as Osmond struggled to transition from a child star to an adult performer. Craig and Osmond divorced in 1985, and she married Brian Blosil the next year in a marriage that would last until 2007.
With the help of their son, Osmond and Craig reunited and fell back in love again. They married in 2011, and she said their marriage has been a happy one in their second go-around.
“I think it is the greatest thing in the world,” she explained. “He’s my best friend. We love to just do nothing together. We have fun just being together. He loves me for me and I love him for him. And he makes me laugh. I think those 26 years apart, God brought a miracle into both of our lives. And it’s been incredible since then. I’m very, very blessed.”
Osmond went on to credit her faith both with her strong marriage and with getting her through the challenging moments of life.
“I went through postpartum depression – it was one of the darkest times in my life,” she revealed. “And no matter what it is, depression is depression. I thought I would never feel alive again… That depression actually helped me understand what my son Michael went through.”
Osmond was referring to her son Michael, who passed away in 2010.
“Every time I go through a dark moment, I say, ‘God, what are you trying to teach me?’” she continued. “I want to learn from it… I get nervous if I feel myself leaning back into any kind of depression because I never want to go back there. But in some ways, it helped me have more compassion, love and understanding for other people struggling like I was. And maybe that’s why I choose to stay positive each day.”
These days, Osmond is enjoying spending time with her family, and she has even picked up a new hobby with her husband.
“I have the Harley and he has the Honda,” she said with a laugh. “I’ve actually had a motorcycle license since I was 16. I couldn’t really enjoy it because I was always busy with work and you have to worry about insurance [as a performer]. And then when you have kids you’re like, ‘I can’t do that because I have children.’ But now, it’s gotten to the point where I said, ‘Gosh, I’m going to do it before I can’t!’ So, I got me a Harley.”
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