Sharon Osbourne Claims She Received Death Threats After Being Fired From ‘The Talk’ Amid Controversy: ‘This Is Insanity’
usmagazine.comOn the outs. Sharon Osbourne is opening up one year after her exit from The Talk, claiming her career took a major hit amid the backlash.“They said to me, ‘You are on permanent suspension.
We don’t think that you’re repentant enough. And we will decide whether you ever come back,'” the 69-year-old TV personality recalled during a recent interview with The Sunday Times, reflecting on being fired from the CBS daytime series. “And I said, ‘Well, who’s going to make that decision?’ And they said, ‘We can’t tell you.'”Osbourne joined The Talk in 2010, and her controversial departure from the show seemingly slowed other offers from coming in. “My phone as far as my TV career [in America was concerned] was nonexistent, not one call.
Nothing,” she said. “In England and Australia, it never changed. Here it was like I was dead.”The former X Factor judge went on to claim that she was forced to hire 24/7 security in the wake of the scandal, alleging, “[People] were saying they were going to come in the night, cut my throat, cut Ozzy’s throat, cut my dogs’ throats. … I just couldn’t stop crying because all I was thinking about was all the things that I’ve gone through in my life, and now they’re calling me a racist.
This is insanity.”In March 2021, the former Celebrity Apprentice contestant came under fire while she and her then-cohosts were discussing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s CBS sit-down, during which they accused the royal family of racist behavior.
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