Before long everyone knew Bernie Madoff’s son Mark killed himself last year by hangning himself by a dog leash.
But what few know is that Madoff himself and his wife tried committing suicide as well, according to an interview this Sunday on CBS’ 60 Minutes, the Associated Press reported.
“I don’t know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening,” said Ruth Madoff.
Ruth Madoff told 60 Minutes that she he and her husband had receiving hate mail and “terrible phone calls” after the scandal became public.
She told 60 Minutes the couple took “a bunch of pills” including the insomnia prescription medication Ambien.
However, it didn’t work. The next day they woke up.
AP also reported that Madoff has told Barbara Walters in an interview that he has terrible remorse and horrible nightmares, but feels happier in prison than he has been in 20 years.
He told Walters that he had thought about suicide before he went off to prison, but not anymore.
