Sharon Osbourneis standing up for her friendPiers Morganin the wake of backlash following remarks he made aboutMeghan Markle.
On Wednesday,The Talkco-host said that she’s been accused of being racist for supporting Morgan, 55, after his controversial response toMeghan Markle’s recent interview withOprah Winfrey.
“Did I like everything he said? Did I agree with what he said? No,” Osbourne, 68, said. “Because it’s his opinion. It’s not my opinion…I support him for his freedom of speech, and he’s my friend.”
She continued, “I’m not racist…I don’t care what color or what religion anyone is. Are you a nice person? That’s what I judge you on.”
Sharon Osbourne onThe Talk.the talk
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Osbourne teared up as she said that it wasn’t fair that she be accused of racism for defending him.
“I very much feel like I’m about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend, who many people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist?” she continued. “What does it gotta do with me?”
Piers Morgan; Meghan Markle.Frazer Harrison/Getty; Samir Hussein/WireImage
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A very emotional Osbourne also demanded Underwood explain when Piers had said something racist.
“I will ask you again Sheryl, I’ve been asking you during the break and I’m asking you again, and don’t try and cry cause if anyone should be crying it should be me,” Osbourne said.
“Educate me!” Osbourne, with tears in her eyes, said. “Tell me when you have heard him say racist things.
Underwood responded that “it is not the exact words of racism, it’s the implication and the reaction to it.”
Sharon Osbourne (L) and Sheryl Underwood (R) onThe Talkon March 10.the talk
“To not want to address that because she is a Black woman, and to try to dismiss it or to make it seem less than what it is that’s what makes it racist,” Underwood said. “But right now, I’m talking to a woman I believe is my friend and I don’t want anybody here to watch this and think we are attacking you for being racist.”
“I don’t believe a word she says,Meghan Markle,” Morgan said during Monday’s broadcast of the U.K. morning show. “I wouldn’t believe it if she read me a weather report and that fact that she fired up this onslaught against our royal family, I think is contemptible.”
“I understand that you’ve got a personal relationship withMeghan Markleor had one and she cut you off. She’s entitled to cut you off if she wants to,” Beresford said. “Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? I don’t think she has, but yet you continue to trash her.”
Since the news of Morgan’s departure from the morning show, several stars have spoken out in support of the formerSuitsactress.
ActressChelsea Handlerposted a clip on Instagram on Wednesday from a 2014 CNN interview in which she and Morgan sparred about how he treated her off camera.
“Some a—holes get better, some just stay the same,” shecaptioned the post.
source: people.com
