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Sheryl Underwoood had quite the contentious debate with The Talk co-host Sharon Osbourne this week about Piers Morgan’s words about Meghan Markle. It resulted in Osbourne saying she felt like she was sitting in an electric chair stating she didn’t want to be made to look racist because she was defending her friend Morgan. Well underwood appeared on Steve Harvey’s podcast Friday to explain what she felt the moment in explaining to Sharon Osbourne how the words spoken by Morgan being harmful was actually a blessing in disguise.
“I think that this is about discipline. It’s about restraint and being a better me. Because you wake up every day…and everybody—especially people of color—go through this all the time, there’s just no cameras pointing at you. Nobody gets to see it, nobody knows it. And today was my day and I accept the blessing of the lesson,” she shared. “I accept that.”
Speaking about the last time Morgan was on The Talk, she said, “I believe [Piers] said something, like, it’s not about race. And I said, yes it is, yes it is,” Underwood told Harvey. “It’s about her being Black and that’s why you’re treating her like that. I love you, but you’re wrong for that right there.”
As for how things blew up, Underwood said this wasn’t what she thought would occur. “The first thing I’m thinking…I’m about to have a conversation on a show that I’ve been on since season two. This is season 11,” Underwood recalled. “Been there 10 years. I never thought in my mind what was going to happen…that this was going to go left like this. I thought we were just going to have a conversation.”
“But I thank God,” she added, “I thank God for what the Lord let me see and the conversations that are being had and the power that is being coalesced. Because the world needs to see what people have to go through and that restraint…I can say right now is peace be still because I had to fix my face.”
And Underwood has said she’s received a lot of support following the interview saying, “I want people to know this, I believe that God was telling me, ‘I have a plan for you. I am about to pour down a blessing upon you. I just need to know, are you ready?'” she said, adding, “… And I just wanted to be a better example for people who are working a regular old job that [have] to compose themselves. We are the only race of people that carry the race with us wherever we go and we’re responsible for that, and I want to thank everybody all over the world on social media, everybody in radio, television, news, everybody that reached out.”
Osbourne on the other hand is blaming the network for what she calls blindsiding her with a segment she knew nothing about. CBS is currently investigating the production and whether or not she in fact was set up as she claims. She wrote in an apology that she allowed her “fear & horror of being accused of being racist take over.” She told Variety, “In my 11 years, this was the first time I was not involved with the planning of the segment…I was just so hurt, caught off-guard and stunned by what I was being asked and not prepared.”
She added, “I was honestly in shock. I felt like I was in front of a firing squad. I felt like a lamb held out for slaughter…They had me there for 20 minutes.”
The network told E! News Friday, March 12th, “We are committed to a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. All matters related to the Wednesday episode of The Talk are currently under internal review.”
