Kelly Osbourne is speaking out after many people have been commenting on her appearance and weight loss online after Saturday’s Brit Awards.
“There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something,” she posted on her Instagram story after the British awards show. “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.”
Kelly’s father, the late heavy metal rockstar Ozzy Osbourne, was posthumously honored with a lifetime achievement at the Brit Awards. He died on July 22, 2025, at 76 years old, and Kelly and her mother Sharon accepted the award on Ozzy’s behalf Saturday.
In the months following Ozzy’s death, Kelly has repeatedly responded to body-shaming critics of her weight loss.
“To the people who keep thinking they’re being funny and mean by writing comments like ‘Are you ill,’ or ‘Get off Ozempic, you don’t look right.’ My dad just died, and I’m doing the best that I can, and the only thing I have to live for right now is my family,” Kelly said in a since-deleted social media video late last year.” “So to all those people, fuck off.” Sharon also defended her daughter in an interview with Piers Morgan, saying, “She’s lost her daddy, she can’t eat right now.”
The online critics returned after the mother and daughter walked the Brit Awards red carpet and gave a speech honoring Ozzy.
“None of it proves strength; it only reveals a profound absence of compassion and character,” Kelly wrote on Instagram. “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!”
On the Brit Awards stage, Sharon paid tribute to her late husband by saying, “If Ozzy was here tonight with us, he would be showing us that gorgeous smile that he had and I know he would be so proud to receive this from the country that he loved. So he may not be here, but he left us one amazing body of work that will never be forgotten by the country that made him.”