The 41-year-old tells HELLO! she was too unwell to deal with the comments about her body while grieving her father, and that her recovery starts with her head.
Kelly Osbourne has answered the commentary about her weight loss by saying she was in no condition to answer it at the time.
Speaking to HELLO! magazine at Cliveden House in Berkshire, in her first exclusive interview and photoshoot since the death of her father Ozzy Osbourne in July 2025, she was asked how she coped with the scrutiny of her appearance.
“I didn’t navigate it – I wasn’t well. How can you navigate something so cruel when you’re so sick? I’m getting a lot better. I’ve got all the help I need and I’m grateful for the support I have in my life,” she revealed.
She said the past year had cost her friendships as well.
Kelly continued: “[I have] this incredible team of people I’ve built around me who are not just my friends, 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.”
She added: “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.”
The comments about her weight intensified after February 28, when she walked the red carpet at the BRIT Awards at Co-op Live in Manchester and joined her mother Sharon Osbourne on stage to accept a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award for Ozzy. The ceremony was broadcast live on ITV, and the reaction online focused on her appearance.
She hit back at the time on her Instagram Stories:
“There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something. kicking me while I’m down, doubting my pain, spreading my struggles as gossip, and turning your back when I need support and love most. None of it proves strength; it only reveals a profound absence of compassion and character. I’m currently going through the hardest time in my life. I should not even have to defend myself. But I won’t sit here and allow myself to be dehumanized in such a way!”
Kelly said her health is “not going to be fixed in a day” and that the mental side comes first.
“It’s one foot in front of the other,” she continued. “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.”
Therapy, she said, has changed how she understands her own behaviour.
Kelly added: “It’s great discovering things about yourself [in therapy], and the reasons why I do certain things that stem from my childhood. You go all the way back and you’re like: ‘Oh my god, that’s why I do that. That’s crazy.’ I’m getting to know myself in a whole new way, but it’s a lot more healthy, I can tell you that.”
This is not the first time Kelly has faced questions about her weight, and she has rarely dodged them. She has previously discussed using Ozempic, and underwent gastric sleeve surgery in 2018. She has also spoken openly about gaining weight after the birth of her son Sidney, whom she welcomed with Sid Wilson in 2022.
What separates this round from the earlier ones is the timing. The scrutiny landed in the middle of what she has repeatedly called the hardest year of her life.
Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22, 2025 at the age of 76, seventeen days after his final performance with Black Sabbath in Birmingham. His death certificate, filed by his daughter Aimee Osbourne, lists four joint causes: out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction. He had lived with Parkinson’s since 2003 and made the diagnosis public in 2020.
Kelly Osbourne has since moved back to the United Kingdom with three-year-old Sidney.
