Sharon Osbourne has said she received therapy which involved being injected with ketamine several times a week to help her cope in the aftermath of a royal racism row. The TV star lost her job after she defended her friend Piers Morgan during the row.
The wife of Ozzy Osbourne was a regular cast member on the US show The Talk from 2010 until she was forced to quit in 2021. The 69-year-old then spent eight months being injected with the mind-altering treatment to deal with the trauma.
During the row she backed Piers Morgan after he relentlessly slammed Meghan Markle and Prince Harry following their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Mirror reports. The former XFactor judge stood by Piers refusing to apologise and was then quizzed on The Talk by her co-hosts as to why she was backing the former Good Morning Britain host's point of view.
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This led to a heated exchange with her The Talk co-host Sheryl and during the tense on-air row Sharon was accused of racism and as a result, the chat show was taken off air to investigate the incident.
Lifting the lid on her intensive therapy after the trauma of the controversy, Sharon admitted that she was injected with ketamine three times a week in a bid to get her back on track.
She said: "Three days a week, I would go in for two-and-a-half hours and I would have this treatment called ketamine treatment. It's something that they inject into you and it's sort of like a truth drug."
Ketamine is a medication that doctors use as an anaesthetic for loss of consciousness, but is also used in some cases to treat depression and effects include sedation and reduced sense of pain.
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