Sharon Osbourne Responds To Lady Gaga's Open Letter To Daughter Kelly
Friday, 11 January 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
Sharon Osbourne has hit back at eccentric pop phenomenon Lady Gaga’s open letter to her daughter Kelly, describing it as ‘hypocritical’ and ‘full of contradictions’.
Kelly revealed last year that she’d been receiving death threats after calling Gaga ‘disrespectful’, because she refused to walk down the red carpet at an awards ceremony last year. Kelly was also called ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’, and was told to kill herself. As we know, Gaga’s fans can get rather wild when it comes to defending their queen, and when Osbourne claimed that Gaga ‘really has created little monsters’, it was almost no surprise that she got the response that she did.
Responding to the claims, Gaga - aka Mother Monster - wrote an open letter to Kelly via her Little Monsters website - accusing the star of ‘breeding negativity’, treating other celebrities like ‘zoo animals’, and bullying with her show Fashion Police. She also made a number of digs at Kelly, calling her show ‘comedic’, and claiming that she had taken a ‘less compassionate’ path than herself.
Now, Kelly’s mother and manager Sharon Osbourne has written her own open letter in response to Gaga’s, and has slammed the star’s inability to control her fans and stop them making ‘libelous’, ‘slanderous’, and ‘vile’ comments about her daughter. Check out the letter below:
Ms. Gaga,
I am responding to your open letter to my daughter Kelly, and I am perplexed as to why you would go public with an open letter.
Regarding this current situation; Kelly didn't contact you, I was the one that contacted your manager today and the email is attached below for your reference. I reached out to him as Kelly's manager and mother to ask him if you could address your "little monster" fans and stop them from writing libelous, slanderous and vile comments about my family, including death threats to Kelly.
Your open letter is hypocritical and full of contradictions. And as your mother Cynthia supports you, I support my daughter Kelly. I must say your opinions on what is politically correct and acceptable totally differ from mine, but that is what makes the world so interesting… we are all different.
How sweet that you have empathy for my daughter, as you feel that she has taken a less passionate path in life. You say her work on E! with the Fashion Police is "rooted in criticism, judgment, and rating people's beauty against one another". Welcome to the real world. Example, when I saw you wear a dress made out of raw meat, I was sickened. When I see you wearing fur, and using it as a fashion statement, the fact that defenseless animals have been killed so you can get your picture in the press is abhorrent to me. Shouldn't you be teaching your "little monster" fans to respect animals and life?
I don't feel I have to justify Kelly's choices in life to you. By your actions to Kelly right now, you have shown me that you are nothing more than a publicly (sic) seeking hypocrite and an attention seeker. You know it would have been much more dignified of you to do this privately. I am calling you a bully because you have 32 million followers hanging on your every word and you are criticising Kelly in your open letter. Are you so desperate that you needed to make this public?
You state, "Everyday, through my music and public voice I choose to be positive and work towards a kinder and braver world with our community of followers." Well this obviously is not translating well to your fans, as a large portion of them have not only been vile to Kelly, but also other celebrities such as Madonna, Adele and Rihanna. You say "a kinder, braver world". I don't know what world you live in, but supporting disgraceful fan comments doesn't fall under the words "kinder and braver". It comes under the heading of bulls**t.
In closing, stop wearing fur, stop looking for publicity, and stop using your fans to belittle not just Kelly but an endless stream of celebrities. A word from you would stop all the hideous, negative and vile threats from your "little monsters". Let me know if you want to continue this debate. I'm an open playing field for you my darling.
Sincerely,
Sharon Osbourne
This letter will probably result in some rather furious tweeting from Gaga lovers, and it’ll be interesting to see whether the two choose to keep things public, whether Gaga replies, or whether they’ll settle this in an adult and friendly manner (are we kidding ourselves?!).
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