'I VALUE PRIVACY'
Ozzy Osbourne’s rarely-seen daughter Aimee has ‘no regrets’ about refusing to appear on family’s MTV reality series
OZZY Osbourne's rarely-seen daughter Aimee has insisted she has "no regrets" about shunning the family's successful MTV reality series.
The 36-year-old explained that she "valued her privacy" too much to appear on The Osbournes, which ran from 2002 to 2005.
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Speaking on New York's Q1043 radio program , she explained: "For me, I had grown up around having a pretty well-known dad anyway, and...
"I always really valued my privacy within that family."
Adding: "And for me personally, and for who I am, you know, as far as morally and also just to give myself a chance to actually develop into a human being as opposed to just being remembered for being a teenager, it didn't really line up with what I saw my future as.
"It definitely worked great for the rest of my family, but for me, and who I am, I just knew it was never something that I would have been able to consider realistically.
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"Weirdly, I think I was more mature then than I am now".
The musician, who performs under the name ARO, shunned the limelight after bowing out of the family’s famous reality TV show back in 2002.
Their fly-on-the-wall MTV series, The Osbournes, lasted for four series and paved the way for other reality shows such as Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Yet, Aimee, who was 16 when the series began, shunned the cameras and moved out of the family home.
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She previously told in 2015: "Back then, I still felt I was trying to figure out who I was in the chaos of family life, so why on earth would I want that portrayed on television?
"I wanted to protect myself, my parents, my siblings, too. They were very young, very impressionable."
Her mother Sharon, 67, revealed on The Talk in 2018 how Aimee's decision to move out "broke her heart" to avoid filming.
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The 67-year-old said at the time: "She felt too that she didn’t want to grow up on camera. She hated the idea — it was appalling to her."
"And so she left at 16 and I regret every day that she did. She was happy, but it broke my heart when she moved."
In April, Aimee's brother for a new reboot of their reality show.
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"I would be lying to say the conversations haven’t been coming up recently,” he said, speaking on the Variety and iHeart podcast The Big Ticket.
"I think nostalgia is such a huge, hot-button word right now. You look at all these shows coming back from 20 years ago.
"The only thing is, what I struggle with, is [that] we don't all live together and I have kids and an ex-wife and a whole life outside of my family."
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