Madonna Badger Tried To Kill Herself Amid Tragic Christmas Fire

Posted on Jan 26, 2012 @ 05:30PM

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By Amber Goodhand - Radar Reporter

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.

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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.

A funeral was held for those lost on January 5 in which Badger gave a moving speech saying, "When I used to hear about people losing a child I would say I could never ever, ever live through losing my babies."

“Gracie asked a thousand times if she was going to die before me. I said, ‘No. that’s never going to happen.’”

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Borcina's construction company was handling renovation work on Badger's recently purchased $1.7 million waterfront home.

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection has said that Borcina nor his company had the right paperwork to conduct construction work in the state but did not say if they were going to launch an investigation.

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it is her fault... she is irresponsible and selfish. she was a bad mother and a crappy wife. she should die

by pattycake
Posted Sun, 02/05/2012 - 2:44pm

I've said from day one something was fishy...you don't raze a house within 24 hours of something like this happening. Unfortunately as the homeowner this woman is responsible for the whole thing. She'll never be able to live thru this.

by annoyed12345
Posted Fri, 01/27/2012 - 3:58am

This is one of the worse tragedies I've heard about. I can see why she would attempt to kill herself. It's beyond me how she can live in this kind of horrible pain. I wish there was some way to lessen her pain even if only for a few minutes

by Reader31
Posted Fri, 01/27/2012 - 12:57am

first of all, it is NOT, borcinas fault. she got in a relationship with him, is still married, hired him to redo her house, KNOWING all she knows, and had her family stay there, with no smoke alarms, and did the ashes with borcina.she needs help.

by mous
Posted Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:13pm

Sue Michael Borcina personally and his insurance company--if he has any insurance. What an incompetent ass. Get HGTV's 'Holmes Inspection' Mike Holmes to testify to his stupidity and incompetence.

by Scott A.
Posted Thu, 01/26/2012 - 9:29pm

one thing we have to do is appreciate our loved ones instead of running around after things that are just things...life is short and cannot be wasted.

by earlybird
Posted Thu, 01/26/2012 - 6:52pm

I was wrong..Roy Orbison lost his first wife and then his two oldest sons in separate accidents so Wilkepedia says..but it would be hell any way his family died..

by earlybird
Posted Thu, 01/26/2012 - 6:50pm

a few years back my daughter, my son then my husband got seriously ill and I thought I was going to loose them all.. my family are okay now but what I went through was hell and this woman lives with the reality along with guilt and condemnation.

by earlybird
Posted Thu, 01/26/2012 - 5:45pm

Roy Orbison lsot his wife and two sons in a house fire too..he wrote a song and in it he had said "what in the world keeps us from falling apart" he came through it but used drugs heavy and yet how do you go on when its all been taken away

by earlybird
Posted Thu, 01/26/2012 - 5:41pm

i couldn't even imagine what it's like to lose your whole family all at once and all the sudden, even more so when it's your children. i can only fee for what she must be going through. it must be a living hell.

by Jill09
Posted Thu, 01/26/2012 - 5:00pm