Sharon Osbourne recently expressed her strong views against “woke culture” in an interview with the New York Post.
While promoting her new docuseries To Hell and Back on Fox Nation, she drew a parallel between woke individuals and religious zealots. “Woke people are like born-agains,” she stated.
Osbourne elaborated on her thoughts, saying: “It’s like a religion. The woke people, they are entitled to opinions, God bless them, even though they bore me to death — but the rest of us are not. They have a new word every day, and a new campaign every day, and if anyone goes against it … what? We’re the devil? They certainly act like we are.”
This isn’t Osbourne’s first time voicing her discontent with woke culture. Back in 2021, she defended Piers Morgan after he faced backlash for his comments on Meghan Markle. She tweeted in his support, “I stand by you. People forget that you’re paid for your opinion and that you’re just speaking your truth.”
Her defense of Morgan had significant repercussions. She famously had her contract terminated on The Talk following another instance of defending him.
Reflecting on that period, Osbourne once said: “I feel even like I’m about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist … What’s it got to do with me? How can I be racist about anybody?”
The incident at The Talk plays a central role in her new docuseries. Discussing the series, she told the New York Post: “Woke people want to be accepted by everybody, but why can’t non-woke people be accepted by them? I’m not talking about hate groups — they are the worst in the world — but we need to let people have opinions.”
She continued: “If our opinions get taken away, we might as well be living in China. [Woke people] tell you what to say and how to behave. If that is how you want to live your life, good for you. But it ain’t for me.”
In her new series, Osbourne delves deeper into these themes, examining the fallout from her public defense of Piers Morgan and her subsequent experiences. She continues to advocate for a society where all opinions are respected, not just those that align with the prevailing woke ideology.
