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PALS NICKNAMED DRUG ADDICT KELLY OSBOURNE 'NODDY'
Former wild child Kelly Osbourne was so zonked out by drugs that her teenage friends nicknamed her “Noddy.”
The now 24-year-old has admitted that her drug addiction often caused her to be only half conscious.
Kelly confesses that she was a pill-popping teen drug addict who downed so many pain-killers she is surprised she did not overdose in her new book.
The daughter of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne and his TV talent show judge wife Sharon says she was prescribed Vicodin as a youngster.
Kelly soon began taking up to 50 a day to help her cope with her sky-rocketing stardom during the taping of the MTV reality series The Osbournes, according to her new book Fierce.
"By this point I was waking up and emptying six Vicodin into my hand. Soon I was taking 50 pills a day. Most people would overdose on 10. My friends called me 'Noddy' because I fell asleep all the time," she writes in the book.
The addiction, which began when she was 17, only got worse when her mother was diagnosed with cancer, she says.
Kelly writes: "My parents suspected. Mum would say, 'Darling, are you taking something? Please tell your mummy.' But I was good at lying. I was trying to be so strong so I took Vicodin to hide the terrible sadness."
She has been to rehab four times and admitted in the tome that the first time she had an opiate at age 13 when she had her tonsils removed she loved the feeling it gave her.
"When I swallowed that tiny dose, I felt relaxed and contented," she writes.
Her parents eventually found out about her addiction and sent her to Malibu's Promises Clinic in California, where she spent 30 days in treatment.
But Kelly says said she was not ready for the programme and landed in three different facilities.
The last treatment facility helped her to realise that she had a problem.
She writes: "After 30 days, I left rehab. For the first time, I felt hopeful. I knew I'd been given another chance at my life, at my career, at happiness. I wanted to grab it."