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Mom Who Lost Girls in Fire Attempts Suicide

'Nobody could hold up well,' says relative

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 27, 2012 3:01 AM CST | Updated Jan 27, 2012 4:34 AM CST

(Newser) – The Connecticut executive who lost her parents and three daughters in a devastating Christmas Day fire has tried to commit suicide, according to a relative. Madonna Badger was hospitalized last week, reports the New York Daily News. “She is OK. She is out and somewhere safe,” said the relative, who did not elaborate on how Badger tried to take her own life. "It’s just terrible—nobody could really hold up well under the circumstances."

Badger lost her 9-year-old daughter, Lily, and 7-year-old twins, Grace and Sarah, as well as her parents when embers from a Christmas Eve Yule log apparently sparked the inferno at her Stamford mansion. She "seemed to be coping better at the funeral," said the relative. "But once all of that is gone and you’re left to face what’s happened, it’s terrible."

Grief is etched in the faces of Matthew and Madonna Badger after their three daughters perished in a fire in Madonna Badger's Stamford home.
Grief is etched in the faces of Matthew and Madonna Badger after their three daughters perished in a fire in Madonna Badger's Stamford home.   (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Madonna Badger at the funeral of her three daughters.
Madonna Badger at the funeral of her three daughters.   (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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wyle
Jan 27, 2012 10:24 AM CST
This makes me think of a line from the song St. James Infirmary............... Let her go, let her go, God bless her
chutzpah217
Jan 27, 2012 10:16 AM CST
So, so horribly sad ~ I will be praying for her, her husband et al . . . I can't imagine having the strength to move on after losing your children so tragically but to lose Mom and Dad as well ~ well, then, there is no one there to hold you up. I will be praying a lot :`\
saridout
Jan 27, 2012 9:29 AM CST
totally understandable. i'd do the same thing.
 

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