Sheryl Underwood revealed she reached out to former The Talk cohost Sharon Osbourne in the wake of her husband Ozzy Osbourne’s death.
During a Tuesday, March 10, appearance on The View that addressed the heated 2021 clash between Underwood, 62, and Sharon, 73, on The Talk, Underwood explained why she tried to make recent contact.
“I will say this. I still believe there’s some love between me and Sharon Osbourne. I tried to reach out when Ozzy passed,” Underwood said. “I love her. Sometimes you find out, your coworkers, your colleagues … you hope that it doesn’t get as big. I’m going to be honest with you, you don’t sit next to somebody for that amount of time and don’t have no love.”
Ozzy died from a cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease at age 76 in July 2025.
Underwood added later that she was “afraid to leave a voicemail” in the wake of Ozzy’s death “because in the business we’re in, your voicemail will show up somewhere or be misunderstood.”
Underwood and Sharon’s 2021 argument, sparked by a disagreement over Meghan Markle claiming she was subjected to racial behavior at the hands of the royal family at the time, was broken down by Underwood and The View’s hosts on Tuesday.
“What happened, when you start talking about Meghan Markle, I said to Piers [Morgan] when he came on the show, and to Sharon, ‘Ya’ll got to get off Meghan Markle.’ We will not let you drag her because her mama is from Windsor Hills. Meghan is in Windsor Palace,” Underwood recalled. (Morgan, 60, was vocally defensive of the royal family at the time and Sharon said publicly that she agreed with him.)
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne Ian Gavan/Getty Images for MTV
Underwood continued, “I sat next to her [Sharon] for years and I do believe that when she’s hurt, she’s really hurt and maybe there’s some things that both of us could’ve done differently. I believe that what really happened to me, I had gotten into a couple of problem discussions on The Talk … and God let me live to correct some of the things that I said.”
Underwood added that she would be open to airing out the pair’s grievances publicly one day. “I haven’t done everything right but if somebody could pull us together … Howard Stern, pull us together. Ya’ll, pull us together,” she said to The View’s hosts.
Sharon apologized to Underwood via text message in the days following their on-air fight, but said during a 2024 episode of “The Sage Steele Show” that she actually “didn’t want to.”
Sharon told the podcast’s host, former ESPN anchor Sage Steele, “I felt I didn’t do anything wrong. But my kid said to me, ‘Just apologize to her. Maybe you’re wrong and she read you wrong or something, just in case, apologize.’ And I did. I apologized to her. I called her. She wouldn’t pick up my calls and then she lied and said I never apologized. I have it all documented on my phone.”
