Kelly Osbourne opens up about family, feud with Giuliana Rancic
Censor-free host releases ‘There Is No F - - - - - - Secret’
The filterless Kelly Osbourne, who has been known to leave editing to the censors, has penned a memoir compiled of 25 honest letters, There Is No F - - - - - -
Secret, (out Tuesday). The writings are addressed to people, things and events ranging from serious — her own battle with Lyme disease, rehab, racists and her mother’s cancer — to evanescent topics like “seat sprinklers.”
There are three notes penned to each of her immediate family members, sans her older sister, Aimee, who shied away from MTV’s cameras during filming of
The Osbournes. Osbourne says the letters, even the one that calls her dad Ozzy “one of the best liars in the world,” were given to her family prior to finding their way to her editor.
“I don’t ever want to say anything or speak on their behalf,” she says via phone. “… I gave it to my family and said look, if there’s anything in here that you don’t want in here I’ll take it out, no questions asked.”
Osbourne says the family, with its documented ups and downs, cites “a sickening amount of loyalty” among the reasons they’ve remained united.
“We were taught by my mum that with love you can get through anything and that no one’s perfect and you never ever disrespect your family. So we’ve always lived by those rules and she’s right,” Osbourne shares. “The right amount of love has gotten us out of every awful situation.”
Osbourne’s battles include stints in rehab, but presently, she doesn’t claim to be sober. She enjoys “the occasional glass of champagne” and joint, but refuses harder substances.
In her book, she attributes her struggles with drugs and her weight to not embracing herself.
“So many years of my life I would go to bed and be like, ‘Please wake up with Kate Moss’ body,’ ” she shares. “’Please wake up with all these different things that would make me accepted and fit in. And it takes so much energy, and it takes so much willpower to stay in that, and it’s so miserable.”
Through “tons of therapy” Osbourne has learned “it’s OK not to be perfect.”
Osbourne is one to acknowledge her faults. In the chapter dedicated to racists, she writes in depth about appearing as a guest co-host on in 2015 and attempting to denounce Donald Trump’s comments about Hispanics with sarcasm. “If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?” she asked on the talk show. Osbourne apologized for the incident in a Facebook post and was still reeling during our chat from the comment that “ruined” her life.
“I want to feel the pain of that for the rest of my life so that I never do anything like that again,” she admits, “and it’s something that I say in my book very sincerely, my biggest mistake was, when it comes to religion or politics or ethnicity in this country you cannot fall back on sarcastic humor – ever. It’s not appropriate, and I learned that the hard way.”
She’s less verbose about Giuliana Rancic, and the time her former Fashion Police co-host surmised a dreadlock-donning Zendaya smelled like “patchouli oil or weed.” Osbourne reportedly told The
Wrap in 2015 after her exit from the E! series, that she believed Rancic was “a liar.”
But she’s quick to shut down questions about the incident now. “I don’t understand why that has anything to do with my life,” she says. “That has been given more than enough publicity. I do not need to add any fuel to that fire. And it’s not my life anymore.”
Point taken.