From wild child to wise woman.
Kelly Osbourne is no stranger to controversy, as we’ve chronicled the rock star princess from her days as an f-bombing teen on the reality show The Osbournes, to her stints in rehab, to now watching in awe as she’s blossomed into the poised co-host of E!’s Fashion Police.
For Cosmopolitan UK’s September issue, the lilac-haired Brit beauty spews the ultimate realness as she dishes on her past – including her drug use and the tough love and support of her family that all lent a hand in her overcoming her dark lifestyle.
Read on for more of Kelly’s candid sit-down with Cosmo UK:
On rehab and her mother Sharon Osbourne’s failed attempt to help:
“I’ve been to rehab seven times and to two mental institutions. My mum even had me put in a padded cell once to scare me, but like a brat I just sat it out until she said, ‘Well, that’s not going to work.”
On sacrificing her career for her family:
“When I was 18, I was set to play Lindsay Lohan’s best friend in Freaky Friday. Then my mum got diagnosed with cancer. I was faced with the choice of a career or spending what could have been the last days of my mother’s life with her.
“I said, ‘fuck you, career, hello, Mother.’ I became my mum’s nurse 24/7. I thought I was going to lose her – it was awful.”
On taking care of her father, Ozzy, after his near fatal 2003 quad-crash:
“He couldn’t move from the neck down and was basically a paraplegic, so I slept on the floor by the side of his bed for four months. I brushed his teeth and washed his clothes, and every day we’d put on our swimsuits and I’d shower him,” she says.
“Not many people can say they’ve wiped their mother and father’s ‘arses’ more than they’ve wiped their own,” she adds.
On hiding her drug use and what ultimately led her to change:
“I would never even tell anyone I had drugs because I wanted them all to myself. I was quite selfish.”
“What changed for me was looking around and seeing that nobody liked me or wanted to work with me.”
For more on Kelly Osbourne, pick up the issue which hits newsstands on August 8th.
STORY CREDIT: PEOPLE.COM | PHOTOS: NY NEWS DAILY
