Pop Culture News and Views by Journalist Ian Halperin

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IUC has confirmed that an A-List actor has a secret child in France and that a paternity suit is in the process of being filed by the babymomma. The A-Lister is currently linked to a well known Hollywood actress. Developing…

Marie Osmond’s son, Michael Blosil, committed suicide last week because he was tormented by the conflict between his homosexuality and the deeply homophobic teaching of the Mormon church, IUC has learned from two sources close to Blasil. I have spent the last several days tracking down a report I first received the day after the 18-year-old Blosil jumped out the window of his L.A. apartment building on Friday night.

My first source, a lapsed Mormon, who knew Blosil and other members of the Osmond family, confirmed that Blosil had been struggling with his sexuality for years and had once voluntarily entered a Mormon “rehab” center, designed to persuade gay members of the Church to teach them to sublimate their feelings. In extreme cases, Mormons have been known to participate in electroshock aversion therapy designed to turn them straight, but Blasil never underwent this extreme technique, which was largely phased out in the late 70’s, my source tells me, after two students committed suicide after they underwent electric shock therapy experiments administered at Brigham Young University. Aversion therapy still occasionally takes place designed to turn Mormons straight, but it no longer involves electro shock and instead uses techniques pioneered by other fundamentalist religious organizations with a similar homophobic mission.

Blasil’s sister, Jessica, is also gay, though Mormons have, strangely, never been as troubled as lesbians as with gay men and many prominent Mormon women are known to have been lesbians, including Katherine Young Schweitzer, granddaughter of the prominent Mormon 19th century leader, Brigham Young. “His mother, Marie, is not exactly homophobic in the usual sense,” says my source. “She has many gay friends in show business and has always been very tolerant of gays and lesbians, but she is a very devout Mormon and she has been somewhat ambiguous over the years about the issue.” It is, apparently, the homosexuality of two of her children that has softened Marie’s stance in recent years and caused her to reject Mormon doctrine on homosexuality to the point where she now believes in gay and lesbian civil unions if not same-sex marriage. According to one Mormon pamphlet, “Homosexuality Is Sin: Next to the crime of murder comes the sin of sexual impurity.” In February 2001, a gay Mormon missionary named Stuart Matis, who had never acted on his feelings, killed himself with a shotgun, leaving behind a suicide note blaming the suicide on a conflict between his religion and his homosexuality. In his suicide note, Matis revealed that he knew he was gay since the age of 7. Matis wrote in his suicide note, which was read at the memorial, that he first realized he was gay at age 7. He spent most of his life praying and trying to change, but eventually gave up hope, “I am now free,” he wrote. “I am no longer in pain and I no longer hate myself. As it turns out, God never intended for me to be straight. Perhaps my death might become the catalyst for some good.”

The parallels between Matis’s death and that of Michael Blosil are striking, though Blosil’s suicide note talked only of his depression, making no mention of his sexuality, perhaps knowing what such a revelation would to the reputation of his famous family. However, despite their deep association with Mormonism, the Osmond family are known to be more tolerant than most of their Church brethren. “The Osmonds have always been conflicted about this aspect of their religion,” my source adds. “Some of them are openly critical, Marie included.” Another Mormon who knows the family well told me it was well known for years that Blosil was gay. “I think they hoped that he wouldn’t be too public about it but as far as I know, they didn’t shun him for it the way other LDS (Latter Day saints) families often do,” he says. “But Michael himself was raised as a Mormon and I think he may have bought into the teachings. He couldn’t figure out how to deal with his being gay and Mormon. That’s why he went for Church therapy. It wasn’t a secret. Everybody knew he was homosexual. He tried dating girls, he tried to be straight. It wasn’t for him.” In November, 2007, Marie Osmond admitted to Larry King that her son, then 16, had entered rehab. At the time, it was implied that he was depressed over Marie’s divorce to his father, Brian Blosil. Most people assumed that his stint in rehab involved drug or alcohol abuse. In fact, however, it appears that the facility Michael entered was a Mormon-sponsored clinic designed to convince gay Mormons to bury their feelings and do their Christian duty. Most of the participants are enrolled after coercion from their families under the threat of excommunication and shunning, but Blosil was alleged to have entered the clinic voluntarily after being urged to do so by a number of friends and family members.

My sources couldn’t tell me if Marie approved of or encouraged her son to enrol. According to suicide experts, gay teenagers are four times more likely to commit suicide than their straight counterparts. But in the Mormon church, this figure is said to be considerably higher. Blosil, who was studying at the Fashion Institute of Design and manufacturing in Los Angeles, had long been passionate about fashion and apparently believed that in L.A., he could escape from the deeply repressive moral climate of Utah where he grew up. The demons of Joseph Smith, however, have a long reach. Developing!

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This is another attempt at damage control by this out of control idiot. Would he have entered rehab had he not run afoul of the law? What other whacked out celebs need to check in with Sheen?????

A close friend of the actress told IUC that Angie wants to have “at least four more kids”. With such a jam packed schedule making movies, does Angie really have time to look after 10 kids? Let us know…