Kelly Osbourne has responded to online trolls who criticized her BRIT Awards appearance after honoring her late father Ozzy alongside her mom Sharon.
The BRIT Awards, hosted in Manchester, England, on Saturday (February 28) saw big names like Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Olivia Dean hit the red carpet.
However, the night turned toward a lost legend, Ozzy Osbourne, who was given a posthumous lifetime achievement award at the event for his decades of Black Sabbath hits.
Sharon pointed out on the red carpet that the posthumous recognition was particularly poignant since across his five-decade career Ozzy never won a BRIT award, although he did host the ceremony in 2008.
The Black Sabbath frontman sadly passed away in July last year, at age 76.
He had just completed his Back To The Beginning farewell concert in his home city of Birmingham.
At the BRITs, the tribute to Ozzy saw Robbie Williams front the songs, while Kelly and Sharon watched on.
However, many instead focused on Kelly’s appearance, with many speculating that the 41-year-old had been using GLP-1 medication to lose weight.
The ‘Changes’ singer took to her Instagram Stories, where she hit out against people who commented on her looks.
She said: “There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something.
“Kicking me while I’m down, doubting my pain, spreading my struggles as gossip, and turning your back when I need support and love most.”
She added: “None of it proves strength; it only reveals a profound absence of compassion and character. I’m currently going through the hardest time in my life. I should not even have to defend myself. But I won’t sit here and allow myself to be dehumanized in such a way!”
But this isn’t the first time she has addressed comments on her weight, after noticeably looking slimmer after the death of her father, which Sharon had noted was due to Kelly’s inability to eat during her grief.
Last December, she posted a since-deleted Instagram video, in which she said to the critics: “All those people, f*** off”.
She went on to say: “To the people who keep thinking they’re being funny and mean by writing comments like ‘Are you ill,’ or ‘Get off Ozempic, you don’t look right,’ my dad just died, and I’m doing the best that I can, and the only thing I have to live for right now is my family.”
In an interview with People, she also explained: “I have been a drug addict, an alcoholic … I’ve been a complete mess, disrespectful to people, horrible.
“But I got more s*** for being fat than I did for anything else. It’s insane.”