14 DAY TRIAL // Kelly Osbourne took a lot of criticism from the media, even back in the day when she did not even know for certain what she was being criticized for, like at the beginning of the VH1 reality show centered on her family. In time, she has come to learn to live with this kind of negative attention, but not before going through personal hell on a couple of occasions, Kelly reveals now for Paper magazine.
Ever since she broke into the spotlight, Kelly has been labeled as a foul-mouthed brat that ruined her life because she was given too much too soon, but one side the world rarely saw was that she never personally asked for it, she says. Not that this perception on her will ever change, for that matter. Other things the world was oblivious to were the fact that she had to grow up with an alcoholic father, a mother suffering from colon cancer and with the harshest kind of attention directed towards her, which, in turn, pushed her to drugs and alcohol.
“When that show was on the air, I was constantly being judged by the whole world. The scrutiny continued even when it wasn’t on television anymore. Wherever I went, people called me names, cruel names, and I was miserable.” Osbourne says of how fame shaped her life from a very young age. It’s no wonder then that, misguided and confused, she sought help in substances instead of turning to her parents, the magazine further says.
And this is precisely what continues to keep her in the spotlight: despite her young age, Kelly Osbourne can literally say she has lived what others live in ten lives. People want to learn more and more about her, to read books about how her life has been so far, wherefrom a high demand for an autobiography. Kelly initially only toyed with the idea for the sake of having something to do, but she eventually set to work – the book comes out later this year.
“LA didn’t work for me. It just didn’t feel right. People had been asking me to do an autobiography for years, since I was sixteen. But then I’d watch Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton do them, and it just seemed very, ‘Look how rich I am, look at my designer clothes, I don’t have to wait in line to get into a club and here’s twenty pictures of famous people I know,’ which I hated the idea of. I knew I couldn’t give advice to other girls unless I talked honestly about what I’ve done. So in this book, I talk about all the important things that have happened in my life.” Kelly further reveals for Paper magazine.