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You can level many charges at Sharon Osbourne, but she is brutally honest, and it is her vulnerability that makes her likeable. "Everybody has something in the closet, and I reckon the best policy is always to be honest, then it can't come back to haunt you," she says. And she holds her hands up to her own "big mistakes". The biggest brings her to tears. "I had an abortion at 17 and it was the worst thing I ever did. It was the first time I'd had sex, and that was rotten. I'd always thought it was going...

Story Number: NNS040311-11 Release Date: 3/12/2004 2:58:00 AM By Journalist 1st Class Daniel J. Calderon, Commander, Navy Region Hawaii Public Affairs PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon brought the their MTV reality show, "The Osbournes," to the Navy March 9, when they visited and toured the USS Missouri (BB 63) Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. “The concierge desk called this morning and asked if we could give a special tour,” said Same Lowe, director of visitor operations at Missouri. “At first, they couldn’t tell us who or even if the people were coming.” By...

Sep 10, 4:23 PM EDT Sharon Says She Left Ozzy for Short Time NEW YORK (AP) -- Sharon Osbourne said she briefly left her husband, Ozzy, around the time their teenage son, Jack, entered rehab this spring. Sharon Osbourne, shown at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, in this May 31, 2003, file photo, said she briefly left her husband, Ozzy, around the time their teenage son, Jack, entered rehab. The Osbourne matriarch told Barbara Walters in an interview for ABC's ``20/20.'' that while the family was waiting for a bed to become available for Jack at a treatment...

<p>SHARON Osbourne, wife and manager of heavy metal rocker and sometime Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne, is interviewing women in prison for her new talk show. Each woman was jailed for killing her abusive mate, which Osbourne claims "can happen to anyone." She's been lobbying for their release on the grounds that they're "not criminals," just people who had "a second of bad judgment." "It could have happened to me," says Osbourne, referring to years of abuse at the hands of previous boyfriends, as well as problems she had with Ozzy during what she called a "bad phase." The show premieres on the WB Network Sept. 15.</p>