The father of three children who died in a Christmas Eve fire along with their grandparents has spoken out for the first time since the tragedy.

Matthew Badger is the ex-husband of Madonna Badger, the woman who lost her whole family when her Stamford, Connecticut home went up in flames after after yule log embers were placed unsafely in a bag in the back mud room, taking the lives of her seven-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, Lily Badger, 10, and her parents Lomer and Pauline Johnson.

The woman who lost her three children and parents in a tragic Christmas fire that destroyed her house has tried to take her own life.

Madonna Badger was hospitalized last week after a family member told the NY Daily News the mother purposely injured herself in an effort to escape the pain of losing her family.

"She is okay... She is out [of the hospital] and somewhere safe. It’s just terrible, nobody could really hold up well under the circumstances," the relative said.

Badger's Connecticut home went up in flames on December 25 after yule log embers were placed unsafely in a bag in the back mud room, taking the lives of her seven-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, Lily Badger, 10, and her parents Lomer and Pauline Johnson.
Badger and her boyfriend Michael Borcina were the only survivors.

Hard-wired smoke alarms had not been hooked up inside the Stamford, Connecticut Victorian home where the three young daughters and parents of New York advertising exec Madonna Badger died in a horrific fire on Christmas morning.

Authorities said Tuesday while there were plans for the alarms, they were not yet working; officials did not know whether battery-operated alarms were being used.

We’re also learning new details about the family’s frantic attempts to escape the burning $1.7 million, five-bedroom, waterfront home – purchased by Badger last year.

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New York fashion executive Madonna Badger's three children and parents were killed in a Christmas day fire that tore through her Stamford, Conn. home and RadarOnline.com has the numerous 911 calls that were placed to authorities.

"There's a huge fire at the house next door to us. The whole house is on fire," the first caller says in the 911 tape first obtained by the New York Post on Tuesday afternoon.

"There's three kids and a woman…"