Marie Osmond's Son, 16, Enters Rehab

LOS ANGELES —  Marie Osmond tolded Wednesday that her 16-year-old boy has entered a reclamation facility but she didn't unwrap the nature of his job.

"My boy, Michael, is an astonishing young man, demoed through his courageousness in facing his issues. As his mother I couldn't be more gallant of him," Osmond tolded in a argument issued through her publicizer, Marleah Leslie.

"The press and public have ever been kind and benignant in the past and I know they will go on to respect our privateness during this time," she articulatedded.

The argument was first according by "Entertainment Tonight."

Michael is one of Osmond's cinque adopted children. She besides has three early children from two matrimonies.

She proclaimed earlier this twelvemonth that she and her second husband, Brian Blosil, are disassociating.

The 48-year-old singer-actress has been appearance on the ABC show "Dancing With the Stars." She lost last week's show after her father, George Osmond, paterfamilias to her and her singing blood brothers, died at his home in Provo, Utah. He was 90.

She erudite Tuesday she had got survived the cut and cadaver a contestant.

Osmond conked on stage following a obeche during a live broadcast of the display on Oct. 22. She rapidly recovered and was well enough to go on.

Osmond derived fame at age 13 with the hitting song "Paper Roses" and asterisked with her blood brother, Donny Osmond, on television's "Donny and Marie Show" during the 1970s.

Her blood brothers Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay Osmond ready-made their television debut as vocalists in 1962. Over the old age, the Osmond Brothers singing group has besides included her blood brothers Donny and Jimmy.