Kelly Osbourne: It kills me that when Googling my name ‘racist’ comes up

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Kelly Osbourne wrote a book. Apparently it’s a compilation of letters that she has written to everything from her family to her vagina. I cannot quite find the words strong enough to tell you how much I don’t want to read what Kelly has to say to her genitalia. The book is called There Is No F*cking Secret: Letters from a Bad-ss B-tch. The ‘secret’ reference is to the book The Secret, btw, because apparently everything pisses Kelly off. The book won’t be out until April 2017 but she’s already doing press because it provides another perfect opportunity for her to play the victim. To remind everyone, when Donald Trump began spewing his immigrant hate speak, Kelly appeared on The View and in condemning Trump’s comments, did so by asking, “If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump? In the sense that…you know what I mean? But I’m saying that in L.A., they always…” The View co-host Rosie Perez stopped her by interjecting, “Latinos are not only the only people doing that.” Rosie even apologized to Kelly later in the show for being “sensitive.” What followed was Kelly’s inane attempts at trying to prove she wasn’t a racist and that we, the viewing public, were just horrible people who wouldn’t give her a chance. Well, guess what, folks – it still bugs Kelly that we think she’s racist. Here are some highlights from her interview with Entertainment Weekly. The rest is here.

On why she choose to write in letters: I was inspired by Dawn French’s book [Dear Fatty], where she wrote letters. The format helped me keep it concise without rambling, and I could change from topic to topic to topic, and it allowed the book to have a fluidity. But it’s also because at times in my life, writing letters was the only way I could communicate with my family and my loved ones. And that was either because maybe I was in a wonderful institution for my restoration, or if I just was on tour because I thought it was more fun to send a letter than an email, because I am still a child of the analog world. When I can’t say what I want to say, I write a letter. That way you say it, but you don’t send it.

On what she learned writing the book: One of the biggest realizations I had was no matter what I put in black and white, no matter what I say to you, people are going to have their own opinion no matter what. And I let other people dictate my emotions so much growing up that I didn’t realize until after I wrote this book that I don’t do that anymore—and that was a really great feeling.

But the again, the other chapter that was really hard to write, but for a completely different reason, was the letter to my vagina, because I knew my parents would be reading it at some point.

On how she isn’t racist: It says “Dear Racists.” It’s about the topic. I’m a little bit scared about what people are going to say. And I do address the whole View issue, and how that has affected my life forever. I still hate myself for it, because if it was me, watching someone else say it on television, I’d hate them. But the fact is, I got cut off. No matter what I was going to say, people are not going to believe it anyway. I know my true intentions behind it, but like I say in my book, the mistake I made was to fall back on witty sarcasm, and you can’t do that when you’re talking about race, especially in this country. In my way of trying to defend a community of people that I do truly love, I managed to insult an entire race of people in this country. The fact that if you type in “Kelly Osbourne” [into Google], the first thing that comes up is “racist” just kills me.

[From Entertainment Weekly]

Kelly is still throwing Rosie under the bus for cutting her off. Let’s try to walk with Kelly’s argument here. She said, “No matter what I was going to say, people are not going to believe it anyway.” What could she have possibly said following, “who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump,” that would have made that joke okay? Nothing. Kelly doesn’t get to rail on Giuliana Rancic and then argue she should be forgiven. If she doesn’t like seeing racist after her name in Google she has some choices. She can: 1) not Google herself and 2) Make some effort to own what she said and evolve her mindset.

Kelly ends the interview by saying, “So I know I’m gonna manage to offend someone along the way in this. And some people I intentionally want to offend because they offended me!” An eye for an eye only will make the whole world blind.

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24 Responses to “Kelly Osbourne: It kills me that when Googling my name ‘racist’ comes up”

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  1. BobaFelty says:

    then she should stop saying racist things, pretty simple LOL

  2. HK9 says:

    There is nothing “badass” about Kelly. She’s a loud mouth bully who needs to grow up.

    • Neo says:

      Oh, but this is her personal journey. It’s so important. I mean, yes, she appears to have completely missed the opportunity to actually do some self reflection. But that’s not the point. The point is that she’s very special and we need to pay attention to her because she’s so special and unique. Obviously. As a long time fan, I and several others will be reading occasional, free articles about her and then thinking about her. You clearly don’t get it. And like other people who don’t get it, you’re mean. But I’m a bigger person so I feel sorry for you.

    • AngelaH says:

      Yeah. She grew up a rich brat and got away with being an asshole because of her money and connections. That is not badass in any way.

  3. Sixer says:

    Why can’t she just say that the upsetting thing was to find out that she harboured some latent racist views and opinions? But in the end, it was a positive thing because she got herself schooled and now knows better?

    Could it be that she still doesn’t think what she said was wrong or racist?!

  4. original kay says:

    gross

  5. LAK says:

    The only thing i like Kelly is her hair. It’s awesome and really suits her.

    Now, is that Kelly or Khloe K on the cover?

  6. Sigh... says:

    “…the mistake I made was to fall back on witty sarcasm,”

    No, the mistake made was thinking you were witty to begin with.

  7. LinaLamont says:

    The Osbournes are the most vile, classless, useless bunch.

  8. Dolkite says:

    This worthless bitch should be glad that when Googling her name, the word “relevant” comes up.

  9. Hollz says:

    It makes me sad that Kelly hasn’t grown up. I’m a few years younger than her, and I’ll admit I idolized her loud mouth style back when The Osbourne’s show came out. Now she just comes off as immature, instead of the clever witty adult loudmouth I was expecting her to be. :/

  10. laulau says:

    I strongly dislike Kelly.
    I do however wonder what happened to having the grace to forgive people small mistakes? In what universe do you all live in that you’ve never said something you didn’t mean, or have something come across in a way you didn’t intend.
    While I wish she would go away, I don’t get the calls of racism over a statement that clearly was not worded well.

    Of course Latin Americans do many, many things. Also, new Americans, particularly from South America often are doing the hardest jobs that others pass on/can’t afford to take. To me that is all she seemed to be trying to say… It is unnecessary to vilify everyone for their dumbest mistakes.

    • AngelaH says:

      The problem is that she basically said that the value of latinos is that they clean toilets. That is a problem. Now, I am more than willing to admit that maybe she worded things inappropriately. However, instead of her just saying, “I’m sorry. I was trying to say something else and what came out of my mouth sounded awful. I apologize for my offensive statement,” instead it is all about her and how people didn’t understand her and now she’s being picked on and why are people holding my own words against me.

      It’s not that she made a mistake, it’s that in her mind she didn’t. She was misunderstood and is being unfairly picked on.

  11. AnotherJen says:

    She’s starting to resemble Divine.

  12. Laura says:

    I thought when you said pom you meant the pom of her hair but in that picture where it up in a bun, then I realized you meant her dog. The dog is precious. She is not.

  13. Dani says:

    She looks like an idiot with that hair cut.

  14. Lee says:

    Her arm looks photoshopped on the book cover.

  15. leidub311 says:

    This is the least badass bitch I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve never seen the appeal in this family, especially this waste of space. Someone please tell me how the hell she became a “fashion expert”?

  16. Luci Lu says:

    She’s was born into wealth, where Latina servants cleaned her home, toilets, laundry, and cooked her meals. She knows nothing else. Like the mostly-useless and talentless Kardashians, she desperately wants to “be somebody”. But, she remains the same little girl born into wealth, with Latina servants who did everything, except wipe her strangely-shaped ass. Girl, bye!

  17. tekla says:

    good god, what is up with her hair?