The Osbournes had their own eponymous reality show from 2002-2005, and in a new interview with Metal Hammer Sharon Osbourne gave her honest feelings about the genre and her family's personal experience.
“It was a great experience," she began. "It was something that we could all do as a family. Apart from my eldest daughter [Aimee], who didn’t want to be a part of it. It was a great experience, but it had to end. It was something that you couldn’t keep going on and on and on because it wasn’t the real world, you know?"
“It’s the bulls**t world where people you don’t even know will invite you to Russia for a party and fly you there, and they want to show you off that you came to their party in Russia," she continued. "I mean, we got invited to the White House. It’s like, ‘Why the f**k do you want to talk to us? It’s nice for you to invite us, but what the f**k do you want to talk to us about?’ It’s not the real world. It was time to get back to reality.”
Sharon was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer is 2002 but decided to continue filming, and even documented her recovery in season two. “I didn’t want my kids and my husband to know how sick I was. When you say ‘cancer’, everybody always thinks ‘death,’" she admitted when asked about her decision to continue the show. "And you’ve got to remember it was 23 years ago. At that point, cancer wasn’t the same as it is now. So everybody always thought it was a death sentence and I didn’t want my kids to have fear constantly surrounding them. I didn’t want it. And I thought, ‘F**k it.’”
Ozzy Osbourne has suffered from several health issues in recent years and is gearing up to play his final show with Black Sabbath this summer, recently divulging that he's been "heavy training" to prepare his body for the performance.