SHARON Osbourne admitted she “may not be wanted” back on The Talk after “racism” accusations in a scathing feud with Sheryl Underwood.
The TV personality responded to the ongoing outrage following a tense on-air fight with her co-host and insisted she is “NOT racist” as the show remains on hiatus due to an internal investigation.
On Tuesday, Sharon sat down for a lengthy interview with ET and got candid about the severe backlash she is facing after last week’s fight with Sheryl.
“I wish we could go on and have a adult conversation calmly and work it out but I don’t know whether we can.
“I don’t know whether it’s gone past that. I would love to but I don’t know whether I even want to go back. … I don’t know whether I’m wanted there,” she confessed of her uncertain future.
In response to the fury she caused regarding her comments about race, she said: “Do I have my finger on the pulse of what’s going on, with the Black situation in this country? No.
:The ins and the outs of the way the younger generation feel right now, I don’t have my finger on the pulse.”
However, the outspoken redhead did claim she “owned up” to how she handled the interview.
“I can’t not own up. I said what I said. I got too personal with Sheryl. I should’ve never said stop her tears. She was hurting as I was hurting,” she explained.
Sharon acknowledged that when it comes to her tense exchange with Sheryl, she handled the situation badly. “I love Sheryl, I’ve apologized to Sheryl, she’s not gotten back and I can understand. Sheryl needs her time.”
“I am not a racist and if you can’t have a go at your friend who happens to be Black, does that make me racist because I said certain things to my friend, but I said them on camera?” she asks. “I will keep on apologizing to Sheryl, even if I decide not to go back, I will still keep apologizing to Sheryl. I have nothing but respect and so much affection for Sheryl. I don’t want to hurt her.”
Osbourne specifically addressed one of the most criticized moments of the heated exchange when she told Underwood, “don’t try and cry because if anyone should be crying, it should be me.”
“She had just as much pain and probably fear as I did,” she said of that moment. “So, I should never have dismissed her feelings on national TV, ever. But I said it. I have to own it. I can’t say, you know, ‘Oh, I didn’t know why I said it.’ I know why I said it.”
“I let myself down,” she adds. “I let her down by losing my cool, by not centering myself to say, ‘OK, for some reason they’re doing this to me … you’re on national TV, stay calm, stay calm.’ and I didn’t. So. I blew it. But that does not make me a racist.”
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