Kelly Osbourne addresses infamous 2015 remarks about Latinos on 'The View'
Kelly Osbourne has addressed her infamous 2015 remarks on 'The View,' when she said: "If you kick every Latino out of this country then who is going to be cleaning your toilets, Donald Trump?"
Kelly Osbourne earned backlash in 2015 when a comment she made on “The View” was widely slammed as racist.
Osbourne was addressing Donald Trump’s policy on immigration at the time alongside hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie Perez when she said, “If you kick every Latino out of this country then who is going to be cleaning your toilets, Donald Trump?” She later acknowledged her “poor choice of words,” but stressed: “I will not apologize for being racist as I am NOT.”
The clip of Osbourne saying “If you kick every Latino out of this country” has now reemerged on TikTok and become its own meme, with users spouting their own ridiculous takes on stereotypes. It’s thrusted Osbourne and the accusations of racism against her back into the spotlight, so much so that she joined Rolling Stone for a new interview in which she called the quote “the most cringe moment of my entire life” and “it came out so wrong.”
“This whole country is built on immigrants, and if you stop people from coming into this country who do the jobs that make this country exist and thrive and flourish, who’s going to do all the jobs that you don’t want to do yourself?” Osbourne said, later adding: “Latin American culture is the backbone of America. I believe that Latin Americans are the hardest-working people you will ever meet.”
“It hurt a lot of people. That to me, by far, makes it the worst thing I’ve ever done,” she continued. “I realized that I’m not great on live TV and that words are so powerful. And to be labeled as something you’re not is really difficult. But it happened. There’s nothing I can do.”
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