Kelly Osbourne has something to say to those who criticize her appearance.
After appearing at the Brit Awards on Saturday to honor her father Ozzy Osbourne, who was posthumously honored with a lifetime achievement, Osbourne’s apparent weight loss sparked concern and criticism online.
“There’s a special kind of cruelty in hurting someone who’s clearly going through something,” Osbourne wrote on her Instagram Story. “Kicking me when I’m down, doubting my pain, gossiping about my suffering, and turning your back when I need support and love more than anything else. None of this proves strength; it just reveals a deep absence of compassion and character.”
Osbourne then reiterated: “I’m currently having the hardest time of my life. I shouldn’t even be defending myself. But I’m not going to sit here and allow myself to be stripped of my humanity like that!”
Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, at the age of 76. During the awards ceremony on Saturday night, Kelly and her mother, Sharon, accepted the award on Ozzy’s behalf.
Sharon said: “If Ozzy were here with us tonight, he would show us that amazing smile he had, and I know he would be so proud to receive that smile from the country he loved. So he may not have been here, but he left us an amazing body of work that the country that made it will never forget.”
“Thank you for loving my dad as much as we do,” Kelly added.
After her father’s death last year, Kelly spoke about her grief, describing it as a “weird thing” that “creeps up on you in waves.”
“I won’t be well for a while — but knowing that my family isn’t alone in our pain makes a difference. I’m holding on to the love, light, and legacy I left behind,” she wrote on her Instagram at the time.
Kelly’s recent comments about her weight loss aren’t the first time she’s spoken out about those who comment on her appearance.
“To the people who keep thinking they are being funny and mean by writing comments like ‘Are you sick’ or ‘Get off Ozempic, you don’t look well.’ “My father just passed away, and I’m doing the best I can, and the only thing I have to live for now is my family,” Kelly said in a since-deleted social media video last year. “So to all these people, stay away.”
In an interview with Piers Morgan, Sharon defended her daughter, saying: “She lost her father, and she can’t eat now.”
