Sharon Osbourne is coming clean a couple of past decision she made for husband Ozzy Osbourne.
“Do you desire to know the most important mistake I ever made with Ozzy?” Sharon, 72, said on the Wednesday, February 19, episode of “The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan” podcast. “He got offered to go and browse for Pirates of the Caribbean — and I’ve never said this to anyone.”
Host Billy Corgan replied, “And also you said no?” Sharon confirmed, adding, “I said no. Now, wouldn’t he have been perfect?”
Corgan and Sharon began laughing at the thought of Ozzy being within the film. “Because when Johnny [Depp] … wanted Keith to be a pirate, you remember?” she asked, referring to Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who played Depp’s dad, Captain Teague.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was released in June 2003, chronicling Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) and young blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) who try to rescue Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) after she is kidnapped by Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). The film sparked 4 additional sequels: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), At World’s End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
Sharon, for her part, has been married to Ozzy since 1982 and shares daughters Aimee, 41, Kelly, 40, and son Jack, 39. (Ozzy can be the daddy of daughter Jessica, 51, and son Louis, 49, with ex-wife Thelma Riley.)
Sharon and Ozzy briefly split in 2016 after he reportedly had an affair with hairdresser Michelle Pugh. Nonetheless, in July 2016, Sharon told The Talk viewers that she had forgiven Ozzy for his infidelity. (Sharon was a bunch on The Talk from 2010 to 2021.)
“I shouldn’t speak for him. I do know he wants to return on this show anyway and talk for himself to you all,” she said on the time. “He feels that he owes everyone here an apology because he’s put us all through it. He’s very embarrassed and ashamed about his conduct.”
Years later, Ozzy called cheating on Sharon probably the most “outrageous” things he had done. “I regret cheating on my wife,” he told GQ in November 2020. “I don’t do it anymore.”
“I got my reality check and I’m lucky she didn’t leave me,” he continued. “I’m not happy with that. I used to be pissed off with myself. But I broke her heart.”
The pair have been candid about weathering the storms of their marriage. “He all the time, all the time had groupies and I used to be so used to that,” Sharon said during her January 2024 Sharon Osbourne: Cut The Crap stage show in London per the U.K.’s The Mirror. “But when he knows the name of the person, where they live and where they work … it’s a complete different thing as you might be emotionally invested. I took, I don’t understand how many pills.”
Sharon believed that her children were “older” and will “handle themselves” without her. “So I took an overdose and locked myself within the bedroom,” she continued. “The maid tried to are available to wash [the] room and saw me.”