Kelly Osbourne blasts media for believing AI message that dad is dying
Kelly Osbourne hit back on her social media page at rumors that her father, metal legend Ozzy Ozbourne, is dying and that her parents have a suicide pact.
"Stop making articles or posts about how you think my parents are having a suicide pact," she said in an Instagram story posted last week. "That was bulls--t my mom said to get attention one time. And my dad’s not dying. Stop."
The suicide pact rumors stemmed from a 2017 interview in The Mirror, in which Sharon Osbourne said, "We believe 100 percent in euthanasia, so have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains. If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer's, that's it – we'd be off."
The comments were made when grief from her father's death due to Alzheimer's was fresh.
"Why?"
Kelly Osbourne said in her Instagram story, "There's this video going around on social media, and it's supposed to be my dad, but it's AI, It has a voice like my dad's David Attenborough or something. And it starts out saying, 'I don't need a doctor to tell me that I'm going to die. I know I'm going to die.'"
"What the f--- is wrong with you people?" she continued. "Why would you spend your time making a video like this?"
Ozzy Osbourne has had Parkinson's Disease since 2003, but he didn't make his illness public until 2020.
He admitted in January on his Sirius XM show "Ozzy Speaks" that he can no longer walk because of the advancement of the Parkinson's.
"I may be moaning about how I can’t walk, but I look down the road and there’s people that didn’t do half as much as me, and they didn’t make it," he said at the time.
"He's not dying"
Kelly addressed her dad's mobility issues in the Instagram story as well.
"He's not dying," she stressed. "Yes, he has Parkinson's, and yes, his mobility is completely different than it used to be, but he's not dying. What is wrong with you?"
To one of her followers who commented that they still thought her father was dying, Kelly said, "Stop watching AI generated content and stop perpetuating the bulls---. I don't really respond [to] messages such as this but you really pissed me off how dare you!"
She said that Ozzy was not in stage 5 of Parkinson's because "that's not the way his kind of Parkinson's works."
She also told the commenter that his comment was "incredibly rude."
It's symptomatic of a culture that has grown used to gaining intimate knowledge online of the celebrities they idolize, and for a few, it has led them to be overly familiar with those same people.