Sharon Osbourne Leaks Texts After Sheryl Underwood Says They Have not Spoken Since ‘Discuss’ Struggle

After staying silent within the press as controversy ripped via “The Discuss,” Sheryl Underwood lastly spoke out about Sharon Osbourne’s exit from the morning present — and it did not take lengthy for Osbourne to hit again at one among her claims.

ICYMI: Underwood questioned Osbourne over her protection of Piers Morgan on “The Discuss” final month, after he attacked Meghan Markle following her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey. The alternate between Osbourne and Underwood blew up, as Underwood mentioned some seen Morgan’s assaults on Markle as racist, whereas Osbourne demanded proof and expressed concern about herself coming off as racist for defending him. The present went on hiatus, an inner investigation was performed and Osbourne “determined to depart.”

“I felt, as a result of there was an investigation, be quiet,” Underwood mentioned, explaining her preliminary silence on her podcast — in three episodes titled “Sharon Walks Away.” She added, “I need to be clear, I haven’t got energy to rent, I haven’t got energy to fireside.”

Whereas Osbourne has mentioned she felt “blindsided” by the dialogue, Underwood mentioned that, as moderator that day, none of her questions got here from execs or producers. She mentioned the one enter she received from producers was assist in how you can form the questions in a approach that will information the dialog and never come throughout as combative.

“In speaking about what I needed to ask in a approach that was not perceived as attacking — I used to be already pondering, I believed this was gonna go left. In my intestine, I believed this was going to go left,” she defined. “And so I needed to place it in its correct order, be very calm, however there have been a number of those that criticized me on that — ‘Why do you give any f—s about anyone’s emotions? They offer no f—s about yours.’ It isn’t concerning the response of the individual, it is about me and who I am making an attempt to evolve and mature to be.”

Underwood mentioned she has not spoken with Osbourne since their final day on set collectively. “I have been trying via my telephone,” she added, as her cohosts mentioned Sharon claimed she reached out. She then scrolled again via her name go online air and did not right her cohosts after they known as Sharon a “liar.” Later within the podcast, Underwood vaguely mentioned she did obtain textual content messages from somebody — with out saying who — that learn, “I perceive what you are going via and I do know you want your area.”

In an effort to show she did in truth attain out to Underwood, Osbourne leaked her textual content messages to her former cohost to the DailyMail on Tuesday. “I not solely despatched these messages to Sheryl however I apologized to her in individual in her dressing room,” she advised the publication. “Why are you saying I by no means apologized Sheryl? What are you making an attempt to do to me? Why are you making an attempt to destroy my status? Simply be trustworthy. Inform me.”

Within the texts posted on DailyMail, Osbourne wrote that her “coronary heart is heavy” and she or he was “deeply saddened” by their altercation. “I am sorry for telling you to f— off throughout the break, I am sorry for accusing you of faux crying whereas we have been reside on air and I am sorry for dropping my mood with you,” she continued. Osbourne allegedly adopted up a pair days later and mentioned that, whereas she understood Sheryl wanted area, she hoped they might speak or she might assist Underwood “heal.”

She allegedly adopted that up with two extra texts, however all of them went unanswered. TooFab has reached out to Underwood’s rep for added remark.

Throughout her podcast, Underwood added she hadn’t heard “personally” from some other former cohosts within the aftermath, though Leah Remini and Holly Robinson Peete had each spoken out with their very own claims about Osbourne within the days following the incident.

Sheryl mentioned she and Sharon have been “quick pals” as soon as Underwood joined the present — and claimed she had been warned about her cohost earlier than taking the job. “I heard issues and I used to be like, ‘They received nothing to do with me,'” she mentioned. “My factor is I’ll get to know you first. I had heard issues, and I received telephone calls of this and that and all the pieces, so what I mentioned to these folks, I mentioned, ‘Thanks for the data.’ As a result of pay attention, on this enterprise you have received all kinds of personalities, proper?”

Underwood added that she felt an “odd feeling” about how Sharon initially apologized, as her first submit had no direct point out of Sheryl in it in any respect. Osbourne did go on to handle Underwood particularly in followup interviews.

“Lots of people mentioned ‘Sharon Osbourne was not your buddy.’ I can see the best way folks really feel like that. I can see that,” Underwood continued. “Lots of people felt, who would try this? What buddy would try this?”

“I nonetheless love the Osbournes, from what I’ve recognized of them. I do not know something apart from what I’ve skilled with them, and this factor that has occurred is disappointing to me,” she added. “And perhaps folks do not need to hear me say, ‘I nonetheless love the Osbournes.’ I am not saying I appreciated being handled the best way I used to be handled. I am very upset. And I am simply making an attempt to navigate my emotions about that as a result of it was a trauma.”

After saying she could not “struggle” on-air as a result of she knew she’d be painted as “the offended Black lady,” Underwood mentioned the incident did permit her to show how she’s grown and matured.

“Lots of people say why could be grateful about being racially attacked verbally? I’d say one perhaps, two folks caught after I mentioned that I would matured. I would by no means had an opportunity to indicate that,” she defined. “I had by no means had an opportunity to demonstratively present that I had matured as a result of all people else’s expectation of me was wrath, or immaturity or response to any assault with profane language. Now you hear me say whenever you need to get defensive and assault, put your weapon down as a result of then you possibly can suppose clearly. Un-ball your fists. Do not be so fast to defend.”

“The frustration was not simply what occurred that day, however each interview, each utterance, all of the leaking after the truth that I needed to present, did the maturity stick?” she added. “I might have reacted to all the pieces within the media, could not I? Each lie, each leak, each misrepresentation.”

Of Morgan himself, Underwood mentioned she believes he has mentioned and performed issues “folks might understand as racist” and, whether or not or not he truly is, he fed into it in a approach that comes with penalties. “You trafficked in it, folks appreciated it, the polarization backed you right into a nook and now you need to painting your self because the sufferer,” she added. “Why is it that now you are the sufferer, versus those that are actually victimized?”

She additionally mentioned she hopes folks proceed to observe “The Discuss,” saying she desires viewers to “pray for our evolution.”