Sharon Osbourne Opens Up on Secret Hospitalization for 'Complete and Utter Breakdown'
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The 'Talk' co-host reveals that she suffered from 'extreme exhaustion' last year and had to check into a facility for therapy.

AceShowbiz - Sharon Osbourne revealed her secret breakdown during the season premiere of "The Talk". The 63-year-old momager who split from husband Ozzy Osbourne earlier this year following infidelity rumors told her co-hosts that she was hospitalized last year. She went into therapy for mental health issues.

"I had a complete and utter breakdown," she said. "I woke up in Cedars-Sinai Hospital and for probably three days, I knew nothing. I couldn't think, I couldn't talk, I could do nothing. My brain just shut down on me. My brain just totally fused, and I couldn't cope with anything."

Sharon was diagnosed with "extreme exhaustion." She explained, "Taking on too much of life, thinking that you can take on the world - I was negotiating a tour for my husband, which was a complete nightmare. I was doing ['The Talk'], I was doing sponsorship work and I was traveling around the world too much - just doing too much, thinking, 'I'll do that, I'll do that,' And then your body just goes, 'No.' It can't take it, it can't do it."

"My family put me into a facility, and in this facility, they diagnose you, there's therapists, there's psychiatrists and you do a lot of group therapy," she opened up. "It took me days before I could even speak. I didn't want to speak, I didn't want to eat, I didn't want to talk to anyone. I couldn't keep thoughts in my head. My head was like a whirlpool, going round and round and round, and not one thought would stay in it. I was just like, a thing."

Besides overwork, she struggled with finding the right medication for depression which she had suffered since she was teen. "The medication is a nightmare, because there are so many different medications to take, and it's what fits your chemical makeup," she explained. "It took me probably a good six, seven months to find the right combination of medications [and] the right therapist."

"I feel now that I have got a grip on the problem that I have and I'm in control. It doesn't control me," she said. "And if I can help somebody else along the way, I would feel great to give whatever advice to help somebody else ... If you have a bad leg, you tell everybody you have a bad leg. I just have a bad head."

She's now in a better place, but she doubted herself at first. "The thought of going out of the treatment that I was in terrified me," she told Entertainment Tonight on Monday. "I didn't want to leave. I didn't want to go out because I knew that I couldn't cope with everyday life ... Just coming back and doing the show and going home was really tough on me."

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