Ozzy Osbourne Described ‘The Talk’ Being Canceled Following Wife Sharon’s Exit as ‘Poetic Justice’

Ozzy Osbourne stood by his wife, Sharon, following her 2021 exit from The Talk.

The famed rocker, who died in July at the age of 76, detailed her contentious exit from the chat show at the time in his new posthumous memoir Last Rites.

Sharon, 72, departed from The Talk after she was criticized for agreeing with pal Piers Morgan following his comments about Meghan Markle. She had defended the British journalist during an on-air debate with cohost Sheryl Underwood.

“Sharon basically said her friend was entitled to his opinion, even if she didn’t agree with him,” the Black Sabbath singer penned, per Us Weekly. “She also said not believing Markle doesn’t automatically make you a racist. That was it, as far as I know. That’s all she said.”

He then explicitly claimed that someone at the show’s network probably “set her up.”

“Honestly, Sharon was fed the second the subject even came up. It was a complete carve-up, what happened,” he noted. “The person she is convinced set her up — and I ain’t gonna name names, ’cos the last thing I want to do is stir all that s up again — knew what they were doing, I think. And Sharon, when she feels like she’s being cornered, she’s gonna come out fighting.”

Following the heated discussion, CBS stopped airing The Talk and launched an investigation, also looking at previous allegations of Sharon reportedly making other racist statements to others.

Of Sharon’s exit and alleged racist remarks, Ozzy wrote in his book: “It’s against everything she’s ever stood for. Anyone who’s spent more than five seconds with her knows that. The people she worked with on that show knew that. To be stuck with that label, it was just fing wrong. Because you can never get a gig anywhere on TV once that’s what people think of you. It’s game over. They knew that when they took her down.”

The singer, who explained that Sharon is still friends with some of the women who worked on The Talk’s set, added that after she “cried all her tears,” she “lets it go and never talks about it again.”

“She’s an incredible woman, my wife,” he wrote. “As for The Talk, poetic justice was served in the end. It got fing canceled.”

The talk show was eventually canned in April 2024 after 15 seasons. Sharon had been a cohost since its inception in October 2010.