Kelly Osbourne has addressed concerns surrounding her weight loss, stating she had “no idea” how thin she’d gotten after the death of her father Ozzy.
Osbourne, 41, furiously hit out at speculation over her skinny appearance in an Instagram video shared in December 2025, but has now acknowledged she “wasn’t very well” and shouldn’t have attended the Grammys in January, where Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy was honoured.
At the time, she said: “To the people who keep thinking they’re being funny and mean by writing comments like ‘Are you ill,’ or ‘Get off Ozempic, you don’t look right,’ my dad just died, and I’m doing the best that I can, and the only thing I have to live for right now is my family,” she said.
open image in galleryHowever, grief-stricken Osbourne has now revealed she also didn’t listen to concerns raised by friends and family, but “couldn’t see what other people saw because I was in so much pain” over Ozzy’s death. “All I saw was a broken person,” she told The Mail on Sunday.
It was her gaunt appearance in a photograph taken at a dress fitting for the Grammy Awards, which took place in January, that made her realise there was a problem.
“I looked like the f****** Crypt Keeper,” Osbourne said, referring to the skeletal ghoul from TV series Tales from the Crypt. “I said, ‘This is scary – I didn’t know I looked like this.’ My spine – you could see every single bone.”
Former The View host Osbourne ended up wearing a wig that covered part of her face, so people “couldn’t see how skinny” her cheekbones really were, but she said she doesn’t think she should have gone as she “wasn’t very well”.
She said she had lived with “anticipatory grief” for 10 years due to her dad’s worsening health and that she plans to do a documentary series on grief and mental health as “there’s a lot that people don’t know”.
open image in galleryOver the years, Kelly has been candid about her struggles with weight.
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In 2024, she opened up about her decision to take the weight-loss drug Ozempic, telling E!: “I think it’s amazing. There are a million ways to lose weight, why not do it through something that isn’t as boring as working out?”
Addressing critics, she said: “People hate on it because they want to do it. And the people who hate on it the most are the people who are secretly doing it or pissed off that they can’t afford it.
Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy, whose funeral involved a procession through his hometown of Birmingham, died aged 76 on 22 July – shortly after playing his final concert at Villa Park.
He suffered a string of health issues over the years, mostly related to neck injuries sustained in a 2003 quad-biking accident, which were later exacerbated by a fall in 2019. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease that same year.
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