Kelly Osbourne talked about her addiction issues this week.
The former The Osbournes star, 36, sat down on the Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk with Jada and Willow Smith to share the worst of what she went through in her teen years.
And during her discussion the purple-haired youngest daughter of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne revealed at one point she was using heroin to save money as the drug was so much less expensive than prescription pills like Vicodin and Percocet.
Hard to take: Kelly Osbourne said on Red Table Talk that she did heroin at age 13; seen in 1997 at age of 13 with her dad Ozzy, mother Sharon and brother Jack
The start: The star, who relapsed during lockdown, said her issues began as a teen when she had been given Vicodin. ‘I then kept getting sick, and I had a really bad case of tonsillitis. They ended up having to give me some crazy surgery, and then after that, they gave me Vicodin, and that was all I needed,’ she said
The star, who also shared she had relapsed during lockdown, said her issues began as a teen when she had been given Vicodin for a medical issue.
‘I then kept getting sick, and I had a really bad case of tonsillitis. They ended up having to give me some crazy surgery, and then after that, they gave me Vicodin, and that was all I needed,’ she said.
And the pressure from being a teen star was too much, making her seek the comfort she felt from Vicodin when she was only 13-years-old.
She has always been in the spotlight: The star seen on the left in 2002 and on the right in 2013
An adult: The star as a blonde at age 18 when at the MTV Movie Awards in LA
The gang: from left, Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne on The Osbournes in 2002; she was 17 in this image
‘I went from having every voice in my head being like, “You’re fat, you’re ugly, you’re not good enough, no one likes you, you don’t deserve this, people only like you ’cause who your parents are,” and then all of a sudden, every single voice was silenced, and it felt like life gave me a hug,’ she said of the feeling she got from being high.
Kelly is looking thinner than ever as she lost 90lbs in 2020.
Jade and her mother marveled at how a 13-year-old was given the heavy drug Vicodin as Kelly remarked: ‘I was like, “Why am I so confident and all of this.”‘ Jada said Vicodin makes people feel confident.
‘And then, very quickly, it went from Vicodin to Percocet, from Percocet to – to heroin, eventually, because it was cheaper. I got caught buying it, and then the very next day, my mom put me in rehab,’ said Kelly.
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Tough time: Kelly revealed her sobriety slip happened amid the lockdown as things were just starting to open up again around the country
Kelly revealed her sobriety slip happened amid the lockdown as things were just starting to open up again around the country.
‘I was alone, sitting by a pool and waiting for somebody to come have a meeting with me. And I saw this woman and her husband had a glass of champagne. It looked really nice and I was like, “I can do that, too,”‘ she said.
‘And the next day, I had two glasses. And the day after that, it was bottles.’
She told The Sun: ‘But it went from having one drink here, one drink there to literally three bottles of champagne and 24 White Claws a day.’
On her podcast, The Kelly Osbourne and Jeff Beacher Show, Osbourne said that she would sip out of a large ‘coffee mug that said, “Thank God I’m not dead” which is so ironic.’
‘I was alone, sitting by a pool and waiting for somebody to come have a meeting with me. And I saw this woman and her husband had a glass of champagne. It looked really nice and I was like, “I can do that, too,”‘ she said. ‘And the next day, I had two glasses. And the day after that, it was bottles’
The Osbournes star spoke with Extra late last month about the relapse, which came amid the lockdown as things were opening back up again.
‘I’m that girl that when everything is going great I need to f*** it up a little and make everything a little bit worse in my life,’ said Kelly, whose parents are Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. ‘I am an addict and had thought that I had enough time under my belt and I could drink like a normal person, and it turns out I cannot and I will never be normal.’
Kelly said that in hindsight, she doesn’t know why she experimented in the first place.
‘It took me a matter of days and I was like done, not doing this,’ said Osbourne, who has had multiple rehab stints in an effort to shake her addiction. ‘This is something I am going to battle for the rest of my life. It’s never going to be easy.’
Osbourne opened up in an Instagram clip April 20 about the sobriety slip, as she had been sober since 2017.
‘I relapsed. Not proud of it. But I am back on track,’ she said. This is a little hard for me to talk about, but I’ve always promised you that I will always be honest with you about where I’m at and what’s going on in my road to recovery.’
‘It took me a matter of days and I was like done, not doing this,’ said Osbourne, who has had multiple rehab stints in an effort to shake her addiction. ‘This is something I am going to battle for the rest of my life. It’s never going to be easy’
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