Sharon Osbourne is coming clean about a past decision she made for husband Ozzy Osbourne.
Sharon, 72, revealed on the Wednesday, February 19, episode of “The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan” podcast, “Do you want to know the biggest mistake I ever made with Ozzy? He got offered to go and read for Pirates of the Caribbean — and I’ve never said this to anyone.”
Host Billy Corgan replied, “And you said no?” Sharon confirmed, adding, “I said no. Now, wouldn’t he have been perfect?”
Sharon and Corgan shared a laugh as they discussed the idea of Ozzy being part of the film. Sharon mentioned, “Because when Johnny [Depp]… wanted Keith to be a pirate, you remember?” She was referring to Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who portrayed Depp’s father, Captain Teague.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was released in June 2003, depicting Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) and young blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) attempting to rescue Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) after she gets kidnapped by Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). The success of the film led to four more 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 is also the father 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. However, in July 2016, Sharon told The Talk viewers that she had forgiven Ozzy for his infidelity. (Sharon was a host on The Talk from 2010 to 2021.)
“I shouldn’t speak for him. I know he wants to come on this show anyway and talk for himself to you all,” she said at 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 one of 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 proud of that. I was pissed off with myself. But I broke her heart.”
The pair have been candid about weathering the storms of their marriage. “He always, always had groupies and I was 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 is a whole different thing as you are emotionally invested. I took, I don’t know how many pills.”
Sharon believed that her children were “older” and could “take care of themselves” without her. “So I took an overdose and locked myself in the bedroom,” she continued. “The maid tried to come in to clean [the] room and saw me.”
