Sharon Osbourne says Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson lied when he claimed the Osbournes invested in his company

“We’re not ever, ever a friend, and we don’t have any interest in his company,” Osbourne said in response to Watson’s claims in the CNBC interview. When asked whether she and her husband have ever invested in Watson’s company, Osbourne said: “You must be joking. No way did we invest in anything.”

Osbourne said her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, has never spoken or met with Carlos Watson, while she and Watson have only spoken over the phone.

“He’s insane,” Osbourne said about Watson. She noted that during the legal battle he did offer her shares of the company but she declined.

“To be honest, he did say, ‘Well we’ll give you shares in the company, but I said ‘your company is worth nothing.’ He said, ‘We have all this backing. All these billionaire people. And you know we can keep on suing you and I can give you some shares.’ But I’m like, ‘Shares in what? What do you do?'”

Watson, according to Osbourne, repeatedly tried these tactics during the conversations.

“Then he tells me he’s got billions behind him because his main shareholder of the company is the wife of a guy that died [and ran] Apple,” Osbourne said, referring to Emerson Collective’s Laurene Powell Jobs. He also used Powell Jobs’ wealth as an intimidation factor, according to Osbourne. “We’ve got her money behind us. I’ll fight you all the way,” Osbourne said Watson told her.

“I’m like, ‘But it’s not right you’ve stolen this name,'” Osbourne said.

Watson has appeared on CNBC numerous times, including in January of this year — when he was on a panel with Ben Smith, The New York Times editor who broke the story over the weekend about the Goldman Sachs call.

— CNBC’s Dan Mangan contributed to this article.

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