Kelly Osbourne says she has accepted that her fractured relationship with older sister Aimee Osbourne may never be repaired.
The 41-year-old opened up about the long-running family rift during a Sept. 15 appearance on Paul C. Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast, saying she and Aimee, 43, are simply too different to maintain a close relationship.
“I respect her, I accept her, but we’re different, and that’s OK,” Kelly said during the interview.
But when asked whether there was any hope of reconciliation, Kelly’s answer was blunt: “No, no.”
You can watch the full interview here: Kelly Osbourne on We Need To Talk
Kelly described herself and Aimee as “polar opposites” and said the distance between them has existed for much of their lives.
She also admitted that she has long carried resentment over not having the kind of big-sister relationship she wanted growing up.
According to Kelly, she and younger brother Jack Osbourne were always much closer to one another, while Aimee largely kept to herself.
Kelly said she sometimes felt Aimee was embarrassed by the family and claimed her older sister never fully embraced her or Jack.
Those comments provide only Kelly’s perspective, however.
Aimee has previously explained that her decision to distance herself from the family’s reality-TV fame was largely about privacy and maintaining control over her own identity.
When MTV launched The Osbournes in 2002, Aimee refused to participate and moved out of the family home at 16 rather than appear on the show.
In a 2015 interview with The Independent, Aimee said she was still trying to figure out who she was at the time and did not want that process broadcast on television. She also said she wanted to protect herself and her younger siblings from the intense public exposure that came with the series.
She reiterated that position years later, explaining that she had always valued privacy and felt reality television did not fit with the future she envisioned for herself.
That difference in how the sisters approached fame appears to have become one of the defining divides between them.
Kelly and Jack became central figures on The Osbournes, which turned the family into reality-TV royalty and ran from 2002 to 2005.
Aimee largely stayed out of the spotlight, later pursuing music under the name ARO.
The sisters’ strained relationship is not entirely new.
Aimee acknowledged in that 2015 interview that although there was “acceptance” between her and her siblings, they were not socially close.
Kelly’s latest comments suggest that little has changed.
The family endured another major emotional upheaval in July 2025 when Ozzy Osbourne died at 76.
Aimee joined relatives for public tributes to her father, including a rare appearance at the 2026 Grammy Awards, but Kelly said their shared grief did not erase the longstanding issues between them.
Kelly has also been candid about how deeply her father’s death affected her personally.
In the same podcast conversation, she discussed struggling after Ozzy’s death and said she temporarily relapsed after years of sobriety before later getting sober again.
As for Aimee, Kelly said she no longer believes being related means they must remain close.
Her comments mark one of the clearest public acknowledgments yet that the sisters’ estrangement is not simply a temporary family disagreement.
Instead, it appears to be the result of decades of very different personalities, different approaches to fame and unresolved feelings dating back to their teenage years.