Black Sabbath legend Ozzy Osbourne had some sturdy feedback for The Speak after his spouse Sharon departed from the present amid a scandal in 2021.
Ozzy, who handed away on July twenty second at age 76, wrote at size of Sharon’s damaging expertise on the CBS discuss present in his posthumous memoir Final Rites and stated that whereas the “very last thing” he needed to do was “stir all that s— up once more,” he felt as if his spouse had been the sufferer of a “full carve-up.”
Sharon was an authentic co-host of the present since its debut in 2010. Nevertheless, she left greater than a decade later after backlash over her on-air protection of her pal Piers Morgan. At the moment, Morgan had not too long ago departed from Good Morning Britain after making racially insensitive feedback about Meghan Markle and questioning the validity of her psychological well being dialogue with Oprah Winfrey.
Throughout a heated alternate with co-host Sheryl Underwood, Sharon argued that though she didn’t agree with all the pieces Morgan said, she supported him for his “freedom of speech.”
Because the episode aired, the present went on hiatus because the community performed an inside overview. Finally, Sharon left the present, with CBS stating in a press launch that her conduct “didn’t align with our values for a respectful office.”
Ozzy Osbourne opens up on Sharon Osbourne
In Final Rites, which was completed simply days earlier than his demise, Ozzy stated his spouse was “f—ed the second the topic [of Morgan] even got here up,” and is satisfied that somebody who “knew what they had been doing” “set her up.”
“It was actually horrible to see her undergo that. She was devastated for a protracted whereas,” he wrote. “You suppose you’ve acquired buddies in TV. They ain’t your pals. It was laborious, man. Actually laborious.”
The rocker said that on the time, Sharon was already coping with a number of issues in her private life, together with Ozzy’s declining well being and canceled tour on high of the pandemic. Although he described his spouse as a “rock,” and stated she’d by no means complain, he wrote that she’d “poured her coronary heart and soul” into The Speak, and beloved being part of the present.
Ozzy doubled down on the truth that Sharon “will not be a racist,” and stated such considering is “towards all the pieces she’s ever stood for.”
“To be caught with that label, it was simply f—ing fallacious,” he wrote. “As a result of you possibly can by no means get a gig anyplace on TV as soon as that’s what individuals consider you. It’s sport over. They knew that after they took her down.”
Though Sharon felt devastated for the primary few weeks, she in the end moved on and let it go. Ozzy talked about that she maintained pleasant relationships with the ladies who had beforehand labored on the present. In 2024, “The Speak” was canceled, which Ozzy described as “poetic justice.”
Sharon later issued an apology after defending Morgan, stating that she “panicked, felt blindsided, and have become defensive” when accused of being racist.
