Sharon Osbourne has a specific reason why she supports Britney Spears and disagrees with Bill Maher that the star is “crazy.”

How well does Sharon know Britney Spears, and what did she have to say after working with Spears on The X Factor? It turns out she might know the pop music star better than anyone expected.

Sharon Osbourne might have been the last person Bill Maher expected to defend Britney, but the rock matriarch did just that. Rather than piling on criticisms of Spears, Osbourne laid out the facts as she understood them, even getting Bill to agree with her in the end.

Sharon Osbourne Is Known For Being Up-Front With Her Opinions

Sharon Osbourne definitely embraced the role of being the wife of a sometimes out-there rock star. While Ozzy Osbourne has made plenty of headlines for his own behavior, his wife Sharon has made just as many for her controversial confessions, blunt opinions, and the fact that her mere existence riles people up.

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Sharon is known for having made an X-Factor contestant so uncomfortable she was asked to leave the room, a scenario that left Simon Cowell none too pleased with her.

There’s also the fact that Sharon confessed she and Ozzy used to physically harm one another, not a good look, even for a famous family that’s more rock and roll and less marriage therapy.

Beyond that, Sharon’s been up-front about her personal challenges, from getting Ozzy to stop drinking to her weight loss and plastic surgery. So it shouldn’t have been shocking that she sat down with Bill Maher and shared her opinions about pop princess Britney Spears.

Bill Maher Called Britney Spears “A Little Crazy”

Sharon Osbourne sat down with Bill Maher (for Club Random with Bill Maher) for a chat once, and somehow, the two started chatting about Britney Spears. Sharon started off by describing Britney “happy doing her dances every day, flipping her head around” with her “tits out.”

Bill had seemingly already formed his thoughts on Britney, asking Sharon, “isn’t she a little crazy?” Immediately, Sharon went to Britney’s defense, saying, “She’s a victim.”

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Bill’s immediate response was, “Oh my god.” Sharon elaborated, “She is a victim. Pushy parents that pushed her out there as a kid.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, as others have similarly come to Britney’s defense, Sharon agrees that the problems all started with Britney’s parents’ treatment of her career, while most agree that the industry as a whole exacerbated the issue.

To hear Sharon defend Britney was less surprising given the drama her family has been through in the spotlight, but Bill seemed to think twice about calling Spears “crazy” after Sharon went off about how Britney wasn’t the one to blame for whatever issues she might be facing as an adult.

And it seemed that Sharon had some insider information that other people hadn’t necessarily known about Britney Spears.

Sharon Osbourne Shared Some Insider Info About Britney’s Childhood

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Sharon Osbourne didn’t cite sources while telling her stories, so it’s not clear where she got the information from. However, she seemed to have intimate knowledge of Britney’s childhood, relating a story about one Christmas when Britney was working on a Christmas play as a child. She was apparently living with her mom in a “sh**hole apartment” while her dad, brother, and sister were back home having a joyous holiday.

Osbourne stated that Spears’ apartment had no heat and that Britney “was there, the working one.” That seems to echo Britney’s later tales of supporting her whole family, at first somewhat willingly and later through the controls of her father’s conservatorship parameters.

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Sharon also had another story about how Britney was manipulated and used, not just by her family, but by her boyfriend. Sharon claimed that Britney was on a talent show once, and her boyfriend, who was an agent, was feeding her lines through an earpiece.

Even at that point in her career, Britney was apparently being ‘manufactured’ into what the people around her wanted, rather than enjoying her time in the spotlight in her own way.

Is Sharon Osbourne Friends With Britney Spears?

It’s not clear how Sharon Osbourne got her story about Britney’s Christmas play, but it could be that she actually heard the story straight from Spears. Fans will recall that Sharon Osbourne and Britney Spears both worked on X-Factor at various times; Sharon served from 2004-2007 and 2016-2017 (with another stint in 2013) as a judge, whereas Britney appeared on the show in 2012.

It’s possible the two briefly overlapped during filming—and that explains Sharon knowing about Britney’s former boyfriend being her ‘earpiece’; at the time, Britney was reportedly dating Jason Trawick.

It’s not clear whether the two developed a close relationship, but it’s obvious that Sharon Osbourne is in Britney Spears’ corner, even if she’s acting “crazy” and having fun on social media. It’s possible that the two have kept in touch, especially as Britney has never seemed to have too many close friends to support her during tough times.