Oprah Winfrey’s interview of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Morgan got slammed for saying he didn’t “believe a word that comes out of” Markle’s mouth after she said palace insiders had discussed the skin tone of her then unborn child — claims that went unchallenged by Winfrey.
Osbourne defended Morgan against the suggestion that he was a racist on a March 10 show. Things got ugly fast after co-hosts Sheryl Underwood and Elaine Welteroth suggested that Osborne’s defense of Morgan may itself be racist. “I wanted to look into the camera and say ‘F–k you, f–k you, f–k you, f–k you, and CBS take that,” Osborne said while flipping off the camera in the Fox Nation interview.
She continued: “But I couldn’t do that. Can you imagine if I’d have done that, what it would’ve done? It would’ve been suicidal for me to do that, but that’s what was inside me.
And I honestly wanted to say, ‘CBS go f*** yourselves.”Shortly after, Osbourne issued a public apology, but the network later said that Osbourne’s combative approach during the show “did not align with [its] values for a respectful workplace.” She resigned soon afterwards and, Page Six reported at the time, received a payout worth around $10 million.In the Fox series, Osbourne once again defended Morgan.“Piers isn’t a racist, has never written anything that’s racist, has never said anything that’s racist,” she said. “And because you don’t agree with somebody, they could be an alien.
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