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Sharon Osborne

Sharon Osbourne has been released from the hospital, her son confirmed.

The talk-show personality was hospitalized Friday in California after experiencing an undisclosed medical emergency while shooting a TV series, according to TMZ.

“She has been given the all clear from her medical team and is now home,” Jack Osbourne said in an Instagram update Saturday night. “Thank you to everyone who has reached out with love and support.”

Jack Osbourne, 37, said he’ll let his mother, 70, publicly share why she was hospitalized once she’s ready.

He also specified Osbourne’s health issue occurred while they were shooting an episode of “Night of Terror.”

The Ventura County Fire Department confirmed officials responded Friday night to the Glen Tavern Inn in Santa Paula, where TMZ said an episode of another show, “Ghost Adventures,” was featured.

Osbourne, the wife of Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne, left the daytime CBS panel show “The Talk” last year amid controversy and began a new show for the United Kingdom’s TalkTV in April.

Ozzy Osbourne, who revealed his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in 2020, tested positive for COVID-19 shortly after his wife started the new talk show.

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne have been married since 1982 and have three kids together.

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Angelina Jolie

For more than 20 years, actor Angelina Jolie has aided the United Nation in its efforts to support refugees. But that partnership came to an official end on Friday.

In a joint statement, the “Eternals” actor and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that Jolie will move on from her special envoy role to separately advocate for more human rights.

“I will continue to do everything in my power in the years to come to support refugees and other displaced people,” Jolie said in Friday’s statement. “After 20 years working within the UN system I feel it is time for me to work differently, engaging directly with refugees and local organisations, and supporting their advocacy for solutions."

Jolie’s work with the UNHCR began in 2001 as a goodwill ambassador. She was then appointed a special envoy in 2012.

During her tenure, the actor carried out “more than 60 field missions to bear witness to stories of suffering as well as hope and resilience,” the statement said. As a special envoy, she recently traveled to Yemen and Burkina Faso with UNHCR to meet refugees.

In 2013, the Oscar-winning “Girl, Interrupted” star also testified to the United Nations Security Council about war-zone rape.

“Hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of women, children and men have been raped in conflicts in our lifetimes,” she said, according to the Associated Press.

“You set the bar,” she told the organization. “If the … council sets rape and sexual violence in conflict as a priority it will become one and progress will be made. If you do not, this horror will continue.”

In addition to her UNHCR work, Jolie has leveraged her Hollywood platform and mass following to bring attention to other humanitarian issues.

On Instagram, she has shared posts in support of the women’s liberation movement in Iran, Ukrainian children who have been displaced by the country’s war with Russia and more.

“After a long and successful time with UNHCR, I appreciate her desire to shift her engagement and support her decision,” wrote Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. “I know the refugee cause will remain close to her heart, and I am certain she will bring the same passion and attention to a wider humanitarian portfolio.”

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Tyler Perry

The death of Stephen “tWitch” Boss has inspired Tyler Perry to share about his past suicide attempts. The director hopes his story might dissuade others struggling with depression and suicidal ideation.

The multi-hyphenate, 53, posted a video to Instagram Thursday, which he addressed to “any of you who are going through hard times, struggling.”

Perry was “shocked” by the death of 40-year-old Boss, the dancer, DJ and producer perhaps best known for his work on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” The ‘House of Payne’ creator noted Boss was “always full of life.”

“With that said, I just want to take it back to a time in my life when I tried to commit suicide, a couple of times, because it was so dark I didn’t think it would get any better,” continued Perry. “I had endured so much pain, so much abuse, sexual abuse, it was all so hard to just move through that I thought the only way to make this better was to end my life.”

Perry said he now looks at the all-encompassing pain as “a buy-in.”

“What I mean by that is, all that pain, all that hell, all that struggle, if I had given up, if I had stopped, I wouldn’t have seen the better part of my life,” he said. “I was buying into something, I was paying for something.”

Though he acknowledged some might feel “there’s no hope,” Perry implored people struggling to reach out for help if they ever feel they’re in “a place where you think you want to end your life.”

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