Kelly Osbourne has consistently been open about her challenges and successes. In the latest episode, Kelly made a surprising revelation about her previous drug use.
“I’m hoping that I’ve embalmed myself so I don’t ever get cancer,” Kelly quipped. With her signature humor, she added, “I’m pickled from all the drugs and alcohol, for sure.”
Her younger brother, Jack, 38, quickly interjected with a note of caution, “I don’t think it works that way. But I’m no doctor.”
The conversation shifted to a more serious tone when the siblings delved into their family’s history with colorectal cancer. Kelly has always been willing to talk about her past struggles with substance abuse.
In a revealing episode of the Facebook series Red Table Talk in 2021, she shared how her addiction started with an opioid prescription at the age of just 13.
“I kept getting sick and I had a really bad case of tonsillitis. They ended up having to give me some crazy surgery, and then after that, they gave me Vicodin,” she recalled. “And that was all I needed.”
She further explained, “I went from having every voice in my head being like, ‘You’re fat, you’re ugly, you’re not good enough, no one likes you, you don’t deserve this, people only like you because of who your parents are.’ And then all of a sudden, every single voice was silenced and it felt like life gave me a hug.”
This newfound sense of confidence quickly spiraled out of control. Kelly admitted, “I was like, ‘Why am I so confident in all of this?’ And then very quickly I went from Vicodin to Percocet, from Percocet to heroin eventually, because it was cheaper.”
In a 2021 interview with Extra, Kelly discussed a brief relapse she experienced. “I am an addict and had thought that I had enough time under my belt and I could drink like a normal person, and it turns out I cannot and I will never be normal,” she confessed. “I don’t know why I even tried it. It’s not for me and it took me a matter of days and I was like done, not doing this.”
