Last week Kelly Osbourne revealed that while she was currently back in recovery, she had shortly suffered a relapse in her sobriety. And this week she is explaining what caused it.
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The daughter of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osborne and former Fashion Police co-host, claims that a “nervous breakdown” prompted the slip.
As Kelly told Extra, “I don’t know why my nervous breakdown happened at the end of the lockdown, I made it all the way through, everything was great and my life was perfect. I’m that girl that when everything is going great I need to F it up a little and make everything a little bit worse in my life.”
Osbourne, who will reportedly detail her sobriety journey in the first episode of her upcoming Kelly Osbourne and Jeff Beacher Show podcast, said she miscalculated her ability to handle sobriety. Additionally noting, “I am an addict and had thought that I had a 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 said, questioning why she even tried, “It’s not for me, and it took me a matter of days and I was like done, not doing this.”
As far as Kelly is concerned, she knows that she’ll always have to address her sobriety. “This is something I am going to battle for the rest of my life, it’s never going to be easy,” she admitted. “Through being accountable and owning your own journey and sharing what you can go though you can help other people. That’s why I came clean, I could have sat here and nobody would know.”
Osbourne, who revealed last summer she had lost 85 pounds after having gastric sleeve surgery, also said slimming down was part of her attempt to work on her entire being. Osbourne’s life appeared great on the surface. She’s dating Erik Bragg and things just seemed too good, she said.
Prior to her recent revelation, the temptation to drink casually crept up on Kelly. “I got all of my career goals happening… and then I got happy cause I got this incredible boyfriend and everything in my life is so great and I’m like I’m not an addict anymore… On top of that pandemic fever… It all just got too much,” she said.
“I spent so much time working on my mind and then I spent a year working on my body,” now knowing her limits, Kelly says, “now it's about the soul… did the mind, the body, now the soul.”
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