Ruth Madoff says in her first interview that she and her husband, Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, were so stricken about the crimes that they once attempted suicide together.
Madoff made the comments in an interview with "60 Minutes." An excerpt was released Wednesday.
Madoff tells Morley Safer that she and her husband were so distraught one Christmas Eve that they decided to take a bunch of pills -- Ambien and possibly Klonopin.
"I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening," Ruth Madoff says. "We had terrible phone calls. Hate mail, just beyond anything and I said '...I just can't go on anymore.'"
She says they had sent a package to their son, Andrew, with sentimental items, including jewelry, because they planned to kill themselves.
But the plan failed.
"We took pills and woke up the next day....It was very impulsive and I am glad we woke up," she says.
Their son, Mark, committed suicide by hanging himself last year.
Bernie Madoff is serving 150 years in prison.
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