Sharon Osbourne Opens Up About COVID-19 Symptoms Following Brief Hospitalization
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Sharon Osbourne, 68, revealed that she tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 14.
After a brief hospitalization, she recovered away from her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, who tested negative.
Osbourne confirmed less than a week after her The Talk co-host Carrie Ann Inaba tested positive.
On Dec. 14, Sharon Osbourne announced that she tested positive for COVID-19. The news came less than a week after her co-host on The Talk, Carrie Ann Inaba announced her positive COVID-19 diagnosis. Thankfully, both women have since recovered but are still dealing with a few lingering symptoms, which they shared on the Jan. 4 episode of The Talk.
“I’m feeling really fine now, except that I’m still very tired,” Osbourne, 68, told her co-hosts—including new additions Elaine Welteroth and Amanda Kloots—while filming virtually. “I nod off at, you know, ridiculous times of the day. I went through all the symptoms—headache, eye ache, body ache, dizziness, sickness—you know all of it. But there’s people who are much worse than I got it. They have it much worse, and I just think I came out very lucky.”
Inaba said she was “grateful” Osbourne is feeling better, and Osbourne added: “By the way, I still can’t smell very much or taste very much.” Inaba said she couldn’t either.
The Talk’s Sheryl Underwood told viewers about Inaba’s diagnosis on the show’s Dec. 10 broadcast. “And, out of an abundance of caution, Mrs. O will be doing the show from home today, even though she tested negative,” she said. Four days later, Osbourne shared her diagnosis on Instagram, where she told followers that she was briefly hospitalized and then quarantined away from her husband Ozzy, who had tested negative. “Everyone please stay safe and healthy,” she concluded the post.
In quarantine, she remained in good spirits, sharing lots of funny videos on Instagram and updates from Ozzy at home. She was happy to be able to reunite with him and their crew of pets on Dec. 23, just before the holidays. “Got the OK to go home after two negative test results and look at the joy waiting for me!” she captioned a photo of a masked Ozzy and the pups. “So grateful to be home for the holidays and thank you all so much for your love and support. Stay safe and wishing you the happiest of holidays.”
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the Osbournes’ first brush with the virus since the pandemic began. In September, their three-year-old granddaughter, Minnie tested positive. “It just goes to show you—she’s three years of age—that children can get COVID,” she said on The Talk at the time.
Hopefully her own experience with the virus is her last.
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