It was clear watching the show that Marie was blindsighted by Larry's announcement that her son was in rehab. In a week already tough for her, that made it tougher. The relationship between Osmonds and Larry King is almost incestuous as it is, since Shawn Southwick King, Larry's wife, is a close friend of Marie's.
The transcript of last night's Larry King Live with the Osmonds is online at
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... kl.01.html
Personally watching it I had nothing but compassion for someone who's already buried a father this week, had a difficult and demanding schedule otherwise, and had the added burden of having to put a child in rehab, and then talk about it on national TV.
For me, the more interesting and telling part of the interview came at the end, when the Osmonds present (Jimmy, Jay, Wayne, Alan, Merrill, Donny and Marie) were all asked about Mitt Romney and his presidential aspirations as a Mormon. For apologists and wannabe apologists, an aha moment came when Donny said this in defending Mormonism as Christian:
Donny Osmond wrote: Back in the Nicene Creed, when churches and the religion were established, I think it was like in 900 A.D. or something like that, they determined what the Bible says.
For someone who regularly "defends the faith" on his personal website, that's an interesting "oops." I double-checked the transcript this morning to be certain I'd heard him correctly.
Sure enough.
