Kelly Osbourne says her first rehab stint was like 'university on how to be a better drug addict'

The reality TV personality says in a new documentary, "I learned so many tricks, so many things I never even thought of from my fellow addicts that were in there."

Kelly Osbourne wasn't impressed with the first of her seven stints in rehab.

In the new documentary special TMZ Investigates Matthew Perry and the Secret Celebrity Drug Ring, the reality star reflects on the failings of the rehabilitation process when it comes to drug addiction. "First rehab I went to was, like, university on how to be a better drug addict," Osbourne says. "I learned so many tricks, so many things I never even thought of from my fellow addicts that were in there."

Osbourne, 39, recalls that part of addicts' strategy for obtaining substances during rehab came from leveraging their tenure at the facility — essentially dangling their payment of the treatment centers' fees as a bargaining chip. "People threatened to leave until they got given what they wanted, whether it be Ambien for sleep, Valium for nerves. They would somehow end up getting it," she says. "They end up giving them whatever it is they've asked for."

The Osbournes star also makes troubling allegations about "body brokers," people who intentionally try to make addicts relapse so treatment facilities can make more money from patients undergoing rehab. "They'll sit outside AA meetings looking for weak and vulnerable people that they encourage to go and relapse so they can then pick you up again," she says.

Hearing that claim, TMZ founder and host Harvey Levin incredulously replies, "Rehab centers will send people to AA meetings so that they can entice them to do drugs again so they can go back into rehab? That's hard to believe."

Osbourne insists, "I swear on everything that that is true. And it's heartbreaking."

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When introducing herself in the doc, Osbourne notes that she's in recovery. "I don't say I am recovered because I don't believe that I ever will be," she says, "and it's something that I have to work at every single day."

She also expresses extreme disapproval of ketamine treatment for addiction, which the late Matthew Perry received during the last chapter of his life. "It's insane what has happened with this ketamine treatment," Osbourne says. "I am so, so, so against it. If you are an addict, that sort of treatment does not work for you. It is not a quick fix. It's not going to take you to the gates of hell and make you see yourself and come back to Earth as a newborn person."

Osbourne explains that her own experience with addiction began when she had her tonsils removed when she was 13. "They gave me a medicine that, for the first time in my life, made me feel like I was okay, like I belong, like it was something that gave me this great big warm hug," she says. "It was the answer to what I was looking for. And I didn't know at the time, but what I was looking for was to be numb. It started out with the medicine for my tonsils being removed, and then I figured out how I could get that medicine all the time. And that was through doctors. I didn't have illegal street-drug drug dealers. All of my drug dealers were doctors. Every single time."

The reality personality says she never had any issues obtaining drugs from medical professionals. "I was a very good actress as well — I would feign a lot of pain, and I mean I learned at a very young age how to get what I wanted from them," she recalls. "I would say that I was in pain and they just wrote me a prescription."

Osbourne quickly figured out which doctors were the best for getting quick prescriptions. "If you wanted an Adderall doctor, then I knew who to talk to; if it was opiates, then I also knew which people in Hollywood to go to to find out who their new 'rock doc' was," she says. "At one point I was going to like six different doctors. And I had them in New York, and L.A., and London, so that when I ran out, I could call different ones to refill them for me."

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Osbourne also says Perry played a key role in her rehab experience. "I was 19 years old, and I was in rehab for the first time, and I just wanted to run," she remembers. "He could see that I was struggling, and he walked up to me, and he gave me a chip, and it said, 'Just three minutes.' And he told me, 'If you can get through three minutes, you can get through anything.' That chip got me through that day, which then got me through the next day, which then got me through the next day. And I'll never forget that moment."

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