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Sharon Osbourne blasted the UK for its “despicable” treatment of Irish people as she opened up about what it was like growing up in Brixton as a child.

During a chat with Bill Maher on his podcast, Club Random, the former X Factor judge said she was raised Jewish by her father.

The 70-year-old, who is married to Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne, said “the English treated the Irish despicably for years”.

“My mother was Irish through and through and she was Catholic,” Sharon began.

“When people go, ‘My heritage, my legacy, this, that, the other,’ it’s like, yeah, what about the Jews, mate?”

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She continued: “And you know what somebody of colour said to me, in England, a friend of mine, and I asked him because he’s a lot younger and I’m like, ‘Okay, what do your people think of Jews?’

“And he goes, ‘They don’t give a s**t’.

“I’m like when you say to people of colour? Well, ‘Yes, you’ve been persecuted, but how about being persecuted for 4000 years?’ And you go, ‘Well, what about the Irish?'”

Bill chipped in: “I don’t think people understand that my people, the Irish people, were subjugated by your people, the English. I think people think of Ireland because it’s right near England.

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“Maybe they know that the northern part of it, Northern Ireland, is actually part of the United Kingdom, but they think of them together for good reason.

“But the Gaelic people in Ireland did not speak English at all. So when the English conquered Ireland, they were conquering a country that was as different from England as many of the other countries they conquered in the world.”

Sharon nodded in agreement as she replied: “People forget what happened to the Irish. But they [the English] stole their land.

“They tortured its people. The English treated the Irish despicably and it went on for years and years and years.”

“You have got to move on,” Sharon added. “At some point, you have got to let it go. You have to.

“But that’s the thing about learning from history because you have to know the history in order to change things.

“That’s why it’s important that people understand history.”

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