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Kelly Osbourne has endured the “hardest” year of her life.
On July 22, 2025, her world changed forever with the death of her father, legendary rock star Ozzy Osbourne.
Having always been so close to her dad, grief itself was going to be absolutely crushing. What made it even harder, though, was the onslaught of body shaming comments that came during such a vulnerable point in her life.
Fans started noticing a change, and they openly spoke about it on social media. Some even went so far as to literally @ her about it in her own comments. As if that would do any good.
“How can you navigate something so cruel when you’re so sick?”
That’s the question she asks when reflecting on those dark days in a new interview with HELLO! magazine.
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Thankfully, Kelly didn’t have to suffer the shame alone. She has a solid support system:
“I’ve got all the help I need and I’m grateful for the support I have in my life. … Because what you’ll find when you’re grieving is that people don’t know how to handle it, and you do lose a lot of friends. But the ones who stick around are the real ones.”
Of course, even with friends by one’s side, it’s still hard. Eventually, Kelly realized the best way to handle it was to just not pay any more attention to it:
“To go through what I had to go through on top of all of that just made it even harder. So I just had to ignore it.”
Don’t feed the trolls, as they say.
As for how she’s doing now, thirteen months since his passing, she says she’s healing but still takes it day by day:
“It’s a slow process. It’s one foot in front of the other. You’ve got to fix the head before you can fix the body. It’s a slow process. It’s going to take me a minute. I’m not going to be fixed in a day. I’m not going to be fixed on one therapy session. This is a lifetime of work I’ve got to do and continue to do for the rest of my life.”
It takes a lot of strength to do what she does, and we are so proud of her for showing up every day. Even when it’s a challenge. That’s the kind of strength her father’s legacy left behind, and now she carries that torch.
Sending Kelly lots of love.
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