Sharon Osbourne's house in Beverly Hills caught on fire early Thursday morning after falling asleep before extinguishing a candle, making it the second case this week after actress Heather Graham was a victim of the same fate.
The 60-year-old former "America's Got Talent" judge is said to have fallen asleep on Wednesday night and a candle she had left burning through the night exploded in its glass vase and sparked a small blaze in their living room.
"Please please check your candles before you go to bed," Osbourne pleaded on "The Talk" this morning. "It can happen to you."
"At five o' clock [in the morning], I heard a noise like metal had fallen," Osbourne said of what alerted her to a problem in the Beverly Hills home she shares with husband Ozzy Osbourne.
"I thought it was my housekeeper coming in and she had dropped her keys on the tiles, that's what it sounded like, so I didn't pay any attention. A few minutes later, my eyes are stinging and my throat's closing up. [I thought], 'Something's weird smelling in here.' Then my dog started to bark. I go downstairs and the whole living room [was on fire]. The candle had burst and the cracking sound was the glass and the candle exploding."
"My husband had an operation on his hand yesterday so he's in a complete cast... He comes down and goes, 'Oh, the fire, the fire!' [and tries to put it out] with his hand in the cast," she continued. "Then he opens the French doors and I go into the kitchen and throw water on it and it erupted."
The candle that caused the fire was a gift from "America's Got Talent" co-judge, Howard Stern!
Earlier this week, Heather Graham's apartment in New York City caught fire Saturday night after she left candles burning in her bathroom before heading out for the night. The flames later ignited some clothes hanging nearby, according to the NY POST.
