Kelly Osbourne opens up about drug and alcohol addictions

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This image released by Red Table Talk shows TV personality Kelly Osbourne, who will appear in an episode of the talk show series to discuss her battle with drug and alcohol addiction. The episode will be available on Wednesday, June 2 on Facebook Watch. (Jordan Fischer/Red Table Talk via AP)

NEW YORK ā€“ Kelly Osbourne is opening up about her battles with drug and alcohol addiction, stopping by ā€œRed Table Talkā€ to discuss getting hooked as a teen and relapsing after the pandemic.

The TV personality said she ended almost four years of sobriety in in April 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic was waning, triggered into drinking alcohol again after seeing a couple sipping champagne.

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ā€œI 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, ā€˜I can do that, too,ā€™ā€ she said on the Facebook Watch show. ā€œAnd the next day, I had two glasses. And the day after that, it was bottles.ā€

Osbourne's episode of ā€œRed Table Talkā€ airs on Facebook Watch on Wednesday at 9 a.m. PDT/noon EDT.

Osbourne also told the hosts ā€” Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter, Willow Smith; and her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris ā€” about the origins of her addictions.

Her first opiate-based drug addiction was with Vicodin which was prescribed to her after an operation to remove her tonsils when she was 13, sending her on a lifelong battle. ā€œThat was all I needed,ā€ she said sadly.

Osbourne said the drug silenced her insecurities. ā€œIt felt like life gave me a hug.ā€ Pinkett Smith responded wryly: ā€œVicodin will do that.ā€ Osbourne added that Vicodin led to her misusing Percocet to eventually heroin ā€œbecause it was cheaper.ā€

Osbourne has discussed her drug and alcohol battles before in several interviews, her 2017 memoir and on podcasts like Dax Shepard's ā€œArmchair Expert."

She has said her drug use became the heaviest during her motherā€™s cancer battle and after her father, ā€œCrazy Trainā€ singer Ozzy Osbourne, almost died after an ATV accident in 2003.

ā€œRed Table Talkā€ has recently made headlines with its interview with Olivia Jade Gianulli and when Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will Smith, discussed their marriage.


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