Kelly Osbourne is firing back at wrestler Becky Lynch for making “disrespectful” comments about Ozzy Osbourne just a month after his death.
In a Tuesday (Aug. 26) post on Instagram Stories, Kelly called the athlete a “disrespectful dirtbag” and quipped, “Birmingham would not piss on you if you were on fire.”
“Shame on the WWE for allowing such things to be said about my father and his home!!!” added the Fashion Police alum.
The post comes one day after Lynch insulted the late Black Sabbath frontman’s home city while appearing on Netflix’s WWE RAW, which aired live from Birmingham, England, on Monday (Aug. 25). During a round of on-camera trash talk between Lynch and her soon-to-be opponent Nikki Bella ahead of their upcoming Women’s Intercontinental Championship match in Paris this weekend, the former had a harsh response to the latter’s request that they fight right then and there.
“I’m not wrestling in Birmingham,” Lynch goaded. “The only good thing that came out of here died a month ago.”
“But in fairness to Ozzy Osbourne, he had the good sense to move to L.A., a proper city,” she added as the surrounding crowd booed. “Because if I lived in Birmingham, I’d die too.”
Billboard has reached out to the WWE and Netflix for comment.
Given the heavy metal pioneer’s love for the city in which he was raised, it makes sense why his family might be outraged over Lynch’s digs at Birmingham — let alone her flippant manner of speaking about his death. In July, Ozzy and his Black Sabbath bandmates held their last-ever concert in the city. Less than a month later, it would become the site of the rocker’s funeral procession.
Ozzy — who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021 — died at the age of 76 after battling Parkinson’s and other health issues. His passing prompted a flood of messages in tribute to the rocker from the music community in the days that followed.
It took Kelly some time to speak out about her father’s death, but in a statement on Aug. 4, she wrote, “I’ve sat down to write this a hundred times and still don’t know if the words will ever feel like enough … but from the bottom of my heart, thank you.”
“The love, support and beautiful messages I’ve received from so many of you have truly helped carry me through the hardest moment of my life,” she continued at the time. “Every kind word, every shared memory, every bit of compassion has meant more than I can ever explain … I will not be OK for a while — but knowing my family are not alone in our pain makes a difference.”
