Sharon Osbourne says she was injected with ketamine as part of her therapy to cope with the fallout from a royal racism row. Ozzy Osbourne's wife backed comments made by her pal Piers Morgan during the furore and as a result, she lost her job.
The 69-year-old was forced to quit The Talk and to deal with the trauma she spent eight months being injected with the mind-altering treatment. She had been a regular cast member on the US talk show since 2010 until her controversial exit in 2021, writes The Mirror.
Sharon defended Piers Morgan after he slammed Meghan Markle and Prince Harry following their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey. The former X Factor 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.
This led to 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.
"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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