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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne can’t keep their stories straight

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne don’t seem to be on the same page about his affairs.

The Talk” host opened up about why she tolerated Ozzy’s cheating, which came to a head last year when she kicked him out after finding out about his affair with hairstylist Michelle Pugh.

“It’s not [about] what women can learn from me, I think it’s what couples can learn from us,” Sharon, 64, told “Entertainment Tonight” on Wednesday. “My husband was brave enough to come out and say, ‘Hey, you caught me. I need help. I’m an addict with this and this is what I’m gonna do.’ He’s been in long term treatment for this and we speak about it — we’ve laughed about it!”

Sharon’s account differs notably from Ozzy’s, as the former Black Sabbath frontman, 68, previously denied suffering from sex addiction at all.

“I’m in a f–king rock band, aren’t I? There have always been groupies,” he snapped in January. “I just got caught, didn’t I? It was a bump in the road. … In any marriage you grow apart if you don’t spend enough time together, and that was part of the problem. I don’t think I’m a f–king sex addict.”

The Osbourne matriarch, who revealed earlier this week that her husband cheated on her with six different women (and who previously claimed that he had a habit of hooking up with the help, sometimes two at a time), said she simply can’t live without him.

“The bottom line is that I love him, he loves me,” she said. “We’re in our 36th year [of marriage] right now, but I’ve known him for 40 years. And [after] 40 years is he honestly going to turn around and say, ‘I’ve never been with another woman in 40 years?’ No. It’s life, it happens … and he’s brave enough to deal with it. [We’ve been able to make it] because I’ve lived without him, and I’m much happier with him than without him. We’ve worked for so much together, we’ve achieved so much together. Our family, our friends, and I just don’t want to give that up.”