I think she knew it was a scam, but in Hollywood it’s a ‘cost of doing business’.
Beat me to it. That's exactly what it was and not a single penny is coming back.
Precisely. Stevie Wonder could see it was a scam, but she gladly paid the protection money just the same way other corporations paid off the black mob bosses hoping their operation wouldn’t get targeted, burned down, and ransacked. And given that the national and state Democrats actually encouraged the BLM destruction, almost everyone understood what this was all about and cowardly paid up. Tragically, those who could have stood up to this mob chose to cower and pay up.
No, Osborne knew to either pay up or go waaay to the back of the Hollywood line. Sharon Osborne doesn’t get to rewrite her history and suggest she was dupped. She wasn’t. She knew.
That and being on CBS, kinda like protection money, but I guess it didn't work.
Right; she ponied up the “diversity tax” that is required of celebrities if they want to avoid the enemedia’s dustheap.