Kelly Osbourne says her viral ‘If you kick every Latino out’ clip is ‘the worst thing’ she’s ‘ever done’
Kelly Osbourne is finally breaking her silence about her “worst” and “most painful” moment.
In 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his campaign for president with his infamous “When Mexico sends people, they’re not sending their best” speech, “The View” hosts discussed it.
Osbourne, now 39, was a guest host at the time, chatting about his speech with Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie Perez.
“If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilets, Donald Trump?” she said.
Her co-hosts gasped, and the clip went viral.
“It’s the most cringe moment of my entire life,” Osbourne told Rolling Stone in a new interview published on Thursday, speaking about the moment for the first time since 2015.
“Oh my God, I died,” she said.
“It hurt a lot of people, and that to me, is by far makes it the worst thing I’ve ever done. I realized that I’m not great on live TV and that words are so powerful. And to be labeled as something you’re not is really difficult,” she said, referring to how she was slammed as “racist” after the viral clip.
“It was something that was so painful. And so life-changing, chaotic and crazy in every way. I mean, I received death threats. I used to have this freedom where people liked my crazy opinions and they liked the shock factor of it. And I fed into it a lot because I didn’t understand it. I’ve learned when to shut up and to stop talking. I’m definitely not the person I was before that incident.”
Whenever the clip resurfaces on social media, the reality star and former “Fashion Police” co-host said, “It goes to show that people never forget … I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hate myself a little more each time I see it.”
In 2015, when the incident happened, she was going through “a really, really hard time in my life,” she said.
“I had just been in rehab and what I needed was something else. It wasn’t for drugs, it was more my anxiety disorder, my depression disorder, childhood trauma, all of that kind of stuff.”
She also mentioned that her father, Ozzy, 75, had just cheated on her mother, Sharon, 71.
“I was drinking to numb the pain of everything. I was a trash can when it came to drugs, whatever I could get my hands on,” she explained. “And I was a really broken, scared person.”
Weathering the public backlash after “The View” clip went viral “kind of kick-started me taking a long, hard look at myself and the things that I don’t like and the things that I’d like to change and the things that I’d like to keep,” she said.
She described the version of herself from the clip as a “self-righteous little c – – t.”
When she looks at herself in the clip, she thinks, “Nobody wants to hear [your] opinion on this,’” she said.
Osbourne is a new mom to baby boy Sidney, whom she had with her partner, “Slipknot” DJ Sid Wilson, 46.
In May, she told The Post, “[Being a mom] is the best thing that ever happened to me, it’s given me so much purpose and meaning in life. I love my son more than I love anything in the world. He’s my everything.”
She further told Rolling Stone she’ll show her son “The View” clip when he’s older.
“I’m going to have to play that video for my son at one point and explain it to him. That is probably the cherry on the cake of how painful all of this is. I want him to understand what I was trying to say and how powerful words are.”
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