Kelly Osbourne has ruled out any reconciliation with an older sister she says never acknowledged her.
The former reality star, 41, sat down with Paul C. Brunson on the We Need To Talk podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about her famous family and the MTV series that made them household names. Both Kelly and her younger brother Jack Osbourne, 40, starred on The Osbournes from 2002 to 2005, while their older sister Aimee declined to participate. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s other children include Jessica Osbourne, Ozzy’s eldest biological child, plus Louis Osbourne and Elliot Kingsley from his first marriage to Thelma Riley.
Brunson asked Kelly about the relationship with one of her sisters, though neither explicitly named which sibling they discussed. “I can’t tell the whole truth because I don’t want to speak on behalf of her and I do, you know, we’re not close,” Osbourne responded. She added that she respected this sister enough to maintain her anonymity.
The interview took on a more pointed tone when Osbourne described feeling invisible to this sibling during their youth. “But it was always me and Jack. If I’m honest, my older sister didn’t really ever acknowledge me and my brother. She was just in her own world doing her thing,” she said. Osbourne continued: “And I do to a certain extent, if I’m honest, feel as though she was embarrassed of us.” She clarified that she believed this embarrassment extended to the entire family unit.
When Brunson pressed for reasons behind the distance, Kelly admitted she remained puzzled. “I’ll never really truly understand,” she said. “It just felt that why.”
The two women share little common ground beyond genetics, according to the former singer. “We’re like oil and water,” she remarked. She also spoke of carrying lasting disappointment about the relationship, noting she “never got a big sister” and harbors “resentment” over what she missed.
Any possibility of mending fences was firmly dismissed. “No. No,” Osbourne told Brunson. “I respect her, I accept her, but we’re different, and that’s okay.” She then laid out her conditions for who belongs in her life: “If you’re not going to accept me for who I am, and constantly be trying to change me and say horrible things about me, and truly seem to thrive when I’m not doing well, I don’t want you in my life.”
Both Aimee and Jessica Osbourne are older than Kelly, placing either in the position she described.
The raw emotions Kelly expressed follow years of public acknowledgment from Aimee about her deliberate absence from the family’s televised life. In a 2015 interview, Aimee explained her refusal to join The Osbournes while it aired between 2002 and 2005. “Back then, I still felt I was trying to figure out who I was in the chaos of family life,” she said. She saw no value in adding cameras to that equation: “So why on earth would I want that portrayed on television? I wanted to protect myself, my parents, my siblings, too. They were very young, very impressionable.” Regarding her bond with Kelly and Jack specifically, she offered a measured assessment at that time: “I wouldn’t say there is an ease between us, but there is an acceptance. Do we socialise? No.”
Ozzy Osbourne died in July 2025 at age 76, leaving behind a complex family landscape that his daughter now navigates with clear boundaries.
