She didn’t really quit, she was made to quit. Sharon Osbourne had the gall, the utter audacity, to defend her close personal friend Piers Morgan. A bit of an odious character, if you ask me — but the reason he was fired for, in my opinion, was bollocks. Essentially, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry did their Oprah interview. Media-land responded with great sympathy of the “brave and daring couple”. They all-but kissed their royal asses, and did so passionately. Not Piers.
Piers Morgan said it was bullshit. Said he didn’t buy Meghan’s claims, he felt she was lying and he didn’t buy any of it. He was unrelenting. He didn’t hold back. At all. He responded to Meghan and Harry the way I would in a Quora answer. And whereas I would be, at worst, collapsed… it was his career, instead, that collapsed. Because he stood by what he said and refused to back down.
Instead of apologizing and groveling before the ‘outraged masses’, Morgan refused. Steadfast. And shared a beautiful quote from Sir Winston Churchill that I felt was very apt and described the situation and the manufactured outrage beautifully. For shame! How dare you make such sense, Piers Morgan? I am not always a fan of the man, but he handled this thing with grace and he was dead-right.
Piers Morgan was fired. Then Sharon Osbourne defended him publicly, and passionately. He was her friend. And he was right. So why wouldn’t she? And then she, too, was fired because she refused to back down. Two victims of speaking the unfiltered truth in a climate quite ill-equipped to handle that unfiltered truth.