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  • Kelly Osbourne Celebrates Sober Milestone: I'm Overwhelmed With Gratitude

    Kelly Osbourne Celebrates Sober Milestone: I'm Overwhelmed With Gratitude

    The singer posted a tribute on Instagram to all the people who have supported her in her sober journey.

    Kelly Osbourne celebrated two years sober in a post on Instagram on Friday. The 34-year-old singer and TV personality broke down exactly how long two years is in smaller units: 24 months, 731 days, or 17,529 hours. In her caption, she thanked everyone who stuck with her for those 63 million seconds.

    “I woke up this morning feeling overwhelmed with gratitude. I can’t even put into words how much my life has changed over the last 2 years,” she wrote. “To the friends and family that have supported me on this Journey thank you I love you all so much. If you are new to sobriety stick to it life really does get good.”

    Sober Journey

    The road to sobriety hasn’t been without its hiccups for Osbourne. Her IG post celebrates two years since her relapse in 2017. Last year, she posted on Instagram to celebrate one year sober and captioned it describing the struggles she faced in sobriety.

    “This past year has been one of the hardest years of my life and I feel it’s time [I] share that with you guys,” she posted. “To cut a long story short things got really dark. I gave up on everything in my life but most of all I gave up on myself. Life on life’s terms became too much for me to handle. The only way I knew how to function was to self-medicate and go from project to project so I never had to focus on what was really going on with me. Something had to give… and it did.”

    She also addressed why she had to disappear from the public eye for a time.

    “I have [spent] the past year truly working on my mind body and soul! I had to take a step out of the public eye away from work and give myself a chance to heal and figure out who the f— I really am without a camera in my face,” the singer revealed.

    Osbourne has long struggled with substance use. Her first encounter with drugs came when she was just 13 years old when she was prescribed liquid Vicodin after a medical procedure.

    Chasing Confidence 

    “I had my tonsils taken out, and they gave me liquid Vicodin,” she told People in 2009. “I found, when I take this, people like me. I’m having fun, I’m not getting picked on. It became a confidence thing.”

    Osbourne began to chase that confidence boost any way she could.

    “I have crazy anxiety. I was walking around with a constant sweat moustache,” she says. “So what’s the first thing you do? Go to a doctor. They give you Xanax, Klonopin, Valium. I’d start off taking them as prescribed. Then I’d be like, ‘These are magic pills! Take 10!’”

    After four rehab stints, six detox stays, and one stint at a mental institution, she finally pulled it together and made the choice to get sober.

    “For me, it was either I was going to die, or I was going to get help,” Osbourne said. “I decided that I wanted to live, that life is worth living and that I have an incredible family and friends and why am I allowing myself to be so miserable?”

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  • Kelly Osbourne: Life Is Better Now That I’m Sober

    Kelly Osbourne: Life Is Better Now That I’m Sober

    “I let it get the better of me,” Osborne said about her addiction.

    Kelly Osbourne revealed that she’s nearly two years sober on the British TV show Lorraine Thursday, and according to the reality star and daughter of the legendary singer Ozzy Osbourne, it’s changed her life for the better.

    Before getting help, Kelly says she “didn’t think I could do anything if I wasn’t drunk or high, because I was scared of everything.”

    “I let it get the better of me,” she confessed.

    The young Osbourne is in London to host the 2019 British LGBT Awards on Friday. While she has been reluctant to take on a specific label, Kelly revealed that she is not only open to being with women, but is “open to loving anyone” during an interview with PrideSource. On Lorraine, she spoke on how important the LGBT+ community is to her after struggling to find acceptance as a sober individual.

    “It’s the only community where I feel like I am home,” she said. “They have accepted me for the good, the bad and the ugly and liked me at my best and loved me at my worst.”

    In an interview with People in 2018, Kelly spoke about being “ghosted” by a date after she admitted to being sober. People dedicated to sobriety often find it difficult to interact with a society in which so much of going out and having fun involves alcohol and/or drugs.

    According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the LGBT+ community has a higher rate of substance use disorders than the general population, so it makes sense that sobriety would be better understood and accepted within that community.

    Kelly Osbourne had her first experience with drugs at age 13 when she was prescribed liquid Vicodin, an opioid painkiller, after she had her tonsils out. She found that her issues with anxiety and fitting in, common problems for young teens, were alleviated by the drug. A couple years later, her persisting anxiety was treated with benzodiazepines like Xanax and Valium.

    “I have crazy anxiety. I was walking around with a constant sweat moustache,” she told People. “So what’s the first thing you do? Go to a doctor. They give you Xanax, Klonopin, Valium. I’d start off taking them as prescribed. Then I’d be like, ‘These are magic pills! Take 10!’”

    After a difficult relapse, Kelly will be two years sober this August. She doesn’t miss the drama or the desire to be perfect that used to hound her.

    “Now seeing that I don’t need that, and my life is better,” she says “I don’t have any drama in my life. I have accepted the fact that — and I know I have said this throughout my whole life, but I really understand it now — that I am not perfect, and I am never going to be, and I don’t want to be.”

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  • Kelly Osbourne Says Her First Year Of Sobriety Was Really Difficult

    Kelly Osbourne Says Her First Year Of Sobriety Was Really Difficult

    Building up a sober community has been instrumental for Kelly Osbourne’s success in her first year of sobriety.

    The Osbourne family is known for telling it like it is, with colorful language to boot, so it’s no surprise that Kelly Osbourne is being candid about the difficulties of staying sober as she speaks about her one-year sobriety anniversary. 

    “It feels amazing, but the first year is really hard for everyone,” Osbourne told In Touch. “People have this whole notion that you can be fixed and I am not fixed. I am now just beginning to start to know who I really am and I am not even close. Life is really scary but I get to do things for the first time all over again, which is great and just really figure out who I am and what I am but it’s tough. That first year is really f—ing tough.”

    Osbourne, 34, has been in and out of treatment since she was a teenager. This time, she says, the benefits of sobriety have clicked for her. 

    “I am not hungover and like a lot of my friends aren’t sober and when we do stuff, I am always the first one up, the first one out the door, you know,” she said. “I am excited about life in a whole new way.”

    She said that her family—including mom Sharon, dad Ozzy and brother Jack—all supported her in their own ways. 

    “They have just been amazing,” she said. “My brother has been the one, more than anything because he truly gets it. My mom is a normie… she is there for me as much as she can be. She will always manage to say that one thing that you’re like oh, why the f—k did you say that! But she is only trying to help because she cares so much. Without the support of my family this year, I don’t think I could have gotten through it. They have been there for me like crazy when I know that they should have given up on me by now, but they didn’t.”

    Osbourne said that she is learning to cope with her feelings—which she said she “f—ing hates”—because in the past she’s been “numb the whole time.”

    She said that building up a sober community has been instrumental for her success in sobriety. She’s learned to keep her focus on her sobriety. 

    “Listen to what people are telling you to do, talk to people, don’t keep stuff in and just take it each day as it comes,” she said. “And if you fall, just dust yourself off and try again.”

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  • Kelly Osbourne Discusses Relapse, Celebrating One Year Sober

    Kelly Osbourne Discusses Relapse, Celebrating One Year Sober

    “To cut a long story short things got really dark. I gave up on everything in my life but most of all I gave up on myself.”

    When Demi Lovato ended up hospitalized last month for an apparent overdose, one celebrity to speak out and support her was Kelly Osbourne. 

    Osbourne has been public in the past about her own battles with substance use, but she only recently spoke out about her own relapse and celebrating one year of sobriety in a post on Instagram.

    “To cut a long story short things got really dark,” she wrote. “I gave up on everything in my life but most of all I gave up on myself. Life on life’s terms became too much for me to handle. The only way I knew how to function was to self-medicate and go from project to project so I never had to focus on what was really going on with me.”

    Osbourne thanked her family for the role they have played in the past year of her sobriety. 

    “I want to take this time to thank my brother @jackosbourne who answered the phone to me one year ago today and picked me up from where I had fallen yet again without judgment,” she wrote. “He has held my hand throughout this whole process. Thank you to my Mum and Dad for never giving up on me.” 

    In 2009, Osbourne spoke to People about her battles, beginning at the age of 13. 

    “I had my tonsils taken out, and they gave me liquid Vicodin,” she told People. “I found, when I take this, people like me. I’m having fun, I’m not getting picked on. It became a confidence thing.” 

    In the next few years, Osbourne says she started seeking out pills from friends and doctors. In 2002, during filming of The Osbournes, she says she was self-medicating every day to manage her anxiety and “not be me.”

    In 2004, People reports, Osbourne’s parents sent her to Promises Treatment Center in Malibu. Then, in 2005, she went to treatment again. For the following three years she lived in London, with what she tells People were high and low points. 

    When she returned to Los Angeles in 2008, Osbourne says she hit an ultimate low and an intense relapse. When her friends and family stepped in and demanded she get help, she says she was relieved. 

    “I knew if I didn’t go, I would die,” she told People. “I thought, ‘Thank God someone’s going to make this pain go away.’”

    While it isn’t clear how long of a stretch of sobriety Osbourne had previous to this relapse, she says she is now content with where she is and where her sobriety stands.

    “I still don’t know who the fuck I am or what the fuck I want but I can wholeheartedly confess that I’m finally at peace with myself and truly starting to understand what true happiness is,” she concluded in her Instagram post. 

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  • Kelly Osbourne Gets Candid About Sobriety, Relapse & Mental Health

    Kelly Osbourne Gets Candid About Sobriety, Relapse & Mental Health

    “What I’ve learnt is that no amount of therapy or medication is going to work unless you want it to.”

    Fighting off stigma and advocating for self-care, Kelly Osbourne opened up to a British tabloid about her ongoing reliance on weekly therapy to help her battle with addiction. 

    “I believe everybody should have therapy,” the 33-year-old told The Sun. “Your mind, body and soul are the full package. I try and go once a week.”

    The former reality star also spoke of her seven trips to rehab and two mental hospital stays, and what was different the last time, the thing that finally got her sober. “What I’ve learnt is that no amount of therapy or medication is going to work unless you want it to,” she said. “Until you want to be a good person, you will never be one.”

    Osbourne—whose father, rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, has also had very public struggles with addiction—also touched on public perceptions around mental health care. “There’s still a huge stigma, especially in this country,” she said. “You work out to keep your body good so you go to therapy to keep your mind good.”

    This isn’t the first time the perpetually purple-haired celeb has dished on her history of treatment and institutionalization; last year, she laid it all out in a book.

    The TV star first got into drugs as a teen, when she started taking Vicodin after having her tonsils removed. “I found, when I take this, people like me,” she later told People. “I’m having fun, I’m not getting picked on. It became a confidence thing.”

    Over the years, her drug use ballooned into a broader problem. “The only way I could even face my life was by opening that pill bottle, shaking out a few pills—or a handful—into my palm, and throwing them down my throat,” she wrote in her 2017 memoir, There is No F*cking Secret: Letters from a Badass Bitch.

    After multiple trips to rehab, she sobered up once—then relapsed while living in Los Angeles. “Every day, I was taking more and more pills, hoping that I wouldn’t wake up,” she wrote.

    But she pulled through it and got off drugs again, eventually going on to pen her book about it all.

    “Now, I manage pain through creativity, friendship and self-care,” she wrote in a final chapter titled, “Dear Rehab.” “The crazier my life gets, the more focused I become on the things that make me feel good.”

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