14 DAY TRIAL // Kelly Osbourne was invited as co-host on The View some hours ago and got into a discussion criticizing Presidential hopeful Donald Trump for saying that Mexican immigrants were rapists, drug dealers and thieves. She actually came across worse than Trump in her attempt, as the video below will show.
As it usually happens in these situations, response was immediate and harsh, especially on social media, where viewers rushed to complain that Kelly should think before opening her mouth to speak. She has settled the record since, in a statement posted to her Facebook.
Osbourne criticized Trump, offends
You can see a segment of the show, in which Kelly makes the offensive comment in the video below. She’s actually trying to say that Trump is wrong in arguing that Mexican immigrants should be run out of the country, but she words it in a very strange fashion.
She ends up asking Trump who’d be cleaning his toilets if there were no more Latinos left in the country, and seems about to continue by saying that this is the only job illegals get, at least in Los Angeles.
Co-host Rosie Perez cuts her off to tell her that this isn’t the case, and Kelly gets defensive by saying that she would never be part of “this argument” because she “didn’t mean it like that.”
By that time though, the damage was already done and Kelly was being torn apart on Twitter for misspeaking.
Osbourne apologizes but not really
In a statement posted to Facebook, Kelly starts by saying she wants to apologize for misspeaking and offending. She should have known better than to use those words, especially since The View is a live show and there’s no editing that could have helped her out of a tricky situation.
In response to Rosie Perez’s tweet (below), in which she apologized to Kelly for interrupting her and taking her comment out of context, Kelly says she’s the one who needs to take responsibility for the faux-pas apologize.
“I want to start by saying I ALWAYS take responsibility for my actions. In this particular case I will take responsibility for my poor choice of words but I will not apologize for being a racist as I am NOT. I whole-hearted [messed] up today,” she writes.
And for good measure, she adds that she cleans her own toilets, by the way. So she couldn’t have possibly have said those things and meant them “that way.”
My apologies @KellyOsbourne, I took your point wrong-#Trump #Latinos. My bad. You're heart is so pure & righteous. I adore you. @TheView
— Rosie Perez (@rosieperezbklyn) August 4, 2015