'60 Minutes': Ponzi Plan Perpetrator Bernie Madoff and Wife Attempted Suicide

Bernie and Ruth Madoff attempted suicide together around the Christmas Eve after Bernie Madoff's multi-big Ponzi plan is made public.our editor recommendsBernard Madoff will get 150 years in prisonBernie Madoff's Daughter-in-law Discloses She'd 'Spit in the Face' Throughout '20/20' Interview The thought is available in a CBS News interview with Ruth Madoff, the only real interview she's given about her husband's crimes. "I'm not sure whose idea it had been, but we made the decision to kill ourselves since it am terrible that which was happening," Ruth Madoff informs an hour correspondent Morley Safer. "We'd terrible telephone calls. Hate mail, just beyond anything and that i stated '...I simply can't continue any longer.'" PHOTOS: Probably The Most Spoken-About TV News Faces Servings of the job interview will air Wednesday around the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley as well as in its whole on an hour Sunday, March. 30. The Madoffs tried to overdose on pills: Ambien and perhaps Klonopin, Ruth Madoff informs Safer. "I required what we should had, he required more," she states. "That put into the entire depression. We required pills and awoke the following day. It had been very impulsive and i'm glad we awoke." The an hour piece includes a job interview with making it through boy Andrew Madoff. Mark Madoff hanged themself in the Manhattan apartment on 12 ,. 11, 2010, while his 2-year-old boy rested nearby. Bernie Madoff is serving a 150-year prison term in New York. Stephanie Mack, Mark Madoff's widow, has written a magazine about her very own ordeal - The Finish of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Existence. Within an interview with ABC News' Chris Cuomo that broadcast a week ago on 20/20, Mack stated that her late husband had formerly unsuccessfully attempted suicide by ingesting 60 anti-anxiety and sleeping pills. Related Subjects an hour