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Kelly Osbourne is attributing a near-death experience, or at least a highly traumatic one, to her brother Jack Osbourne.
"You shot me...and I almost died," the 39-year-old television personality candidly informed her 38-year-old brother during the April 23 episode of The Osbournes Podcast, which they recorded alongside their parents, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne.
Sharon, aged 71, swiftly interjected to clarify that the weapon Jack had wielded was a pellet gun. However, the incident still left a painful mark on Kelly's memory as she recounted being struck in the leg. The "Shut Up" singer elaborated, "Mum, it went straight through my leg and out the other side."
Jack acknowledged the potential danger of pellets, cautioning his family, "You can still kill someone with a pellet gun." Inquisitive about the pain inflicted, Ozzy, aged 75, inquired if it hurt, prompting Kelly to respond, "Dad, it felt like someone putting a hot poker through my leg really fast because it kind of burnt a bit."
Yet, Kelly disclosed that the most excruciating part of the ordeal was not the impact of the pellet itself, but rather the subsequent medical procedure performed at a rural English hospital.
"It was this tiny hospital in the middle of nowhere England in the '90s. Their X-ray machine wasn't working. So, they got this long Q-tip and wrapped it in gauze and dipped it in iodine and poked it through the hole to make sure that there was no bits [of pellet] still [inside my leg]," she recounted, as her brother winced in sympathy.
