Sharon Osbourne Unleashes On CBS Executives And Show Producers 6 Months After Exit From 'The Talk,' Claims She Underwent Months Of Ketamine Therapy
Sept. 13 2021, Published 3:14 p.m. ET
It's been six months since Sharon Osbourne's shocking exit from The Talk, and the 68-year-old media personality is finally ready to talk about it.
In her first in-depth interview since losing her job and being "canceled" for taking a controversial stance during an on-air conversation about race, Osbourne unleashed on her former co-hosts, show producers and network executives, accusing them all of setting her up and then hanging her out to dry.
She claims she received countless threats against her life in the months following the ordeal, a trauma that prompted the wife of rocker Ozzy Osbourne to undergo months of ketamine therapy.
During a March episode, Sharon and co-host Sheryl Underwood were at each other's throats over offensive comments the former's friend, Piers Morgan, had made about Meghan Markle, saying he did not believe she was telling the truth when she accused the royal family of racist behavior and said living under their thumb had made her suicidal.
"It was a freedom of speech matter. It was pure freedom of speech," Osbourne told DailyMailTV. "A journalist friend of mine who wrote something that people didn't like and then a few crazies out there, some thugs go - 'you must be racist, that's why you're saying it' - about my friend Piers. It's like, come on."
It did not help matters when Osbourne told Underwood to stop crying in the middle of their tense discussion.
"We had a disagreement and I told her she shouldn't be crying, it should be me that should be crying and that didn't go down well," Osbourne said. "Then in the commercial break, she wouldn't talk to me. I was begging her to talk to me and she wouldn't, and basically I said, go f--k yourself."
"I would say that to any one of my friends," she explained. "When you say it to a friend, it's different than saying it to somebody, a stranger. If you can't get real with somebody who you've worked alongside for 10 years, then then you don't have a friendship, and that's the way I look at it."