Sharon Osbourne said her exit from The Talk last year made her feel like she was “dead,” as she revealed that nobody wanted to contact her following her departure from the show. The 69-year-old Osbournes matriarch, who is currently battling COVID-19 for the second time, hasn’t been shy when it’s come to her talking about her highly-publicized exit from The Talk on CBS, which came after she defended Piers Morgan following his controversial comments about not believing Meghan Markle’s comments about her mental health in her infamous Oprah interview.
Sharon’s defense of the 57-year-old former Good Morning Britain host caused an on-air confrontation with her The Talk co-host, Sheryl Underwood, who asked her live on air if she was racist, which then caused an official investigation by CBS and resulted in The Talk going on a temporary hiatus in April 2021.
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Osbourne issued an apology at the time, writing: “To anyone of color that I offended and/or to anyone that feels confused or let down by what I said, I am truly sorry. I panicked, felt blindsided, got defensive and allowed my fear and horror of being accused of being racist take over.” After leaving the show, the TV personality has since spoken out about her thoughts on how everything was handled. And her latest comments, which came in a heartfelt interview with The Times, are the most emotional yet!
“Everyone is scared of saying something wrong. It’s no way to live,” the former X Factor judge told The Times in reference to cancel culture, which she said she experienced following her exit from the show, telling the pub that it left her effectively blacklisted. “My phone as far as my TV career here [was concerned] was non-existent, not one call. Nothing,” she confessed. “In England and Australia it never changed. Here it was like I was dead. Everybody’s scared of saying something wrong that somebody would take and sell. It’s no way to [expletive] live. I don’t want it. I don’t need it. It’s just our time to go home.”
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Sharon also echoed these thoughts when she appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored (yes, the same show Donald Trump was recently on!) and also told the host about the death threats she, her family, and even her dogs received following her departure from the show. “I never thought in my wildest dreams that my career after 50 years would have ended that way,” Osbourne told Morgan.
“I must have cried for three months, never stopped crying. Some of the comments that were coming through on my social media were so horrific about cutting my throat, my husband’s, even the dogs, they wanted to kill my dogs. And then they started on Ozzy, and I just sort of [thought], ‘This is just insanity.’ Did I want my legacy for my family to be, ‘Oh, well, your nana was on television, but everybody said she was racist, so she never went on television again?’ That kind of ate me up.”
