Sharon Osbourne has revealed her late husband Ozzy Osbourne’s last phrases to her earlier than his loss of life, as she opened up for the primary time concerning the rock icon’s final moments.
The Black Sabbath lead singer died in July on the age of 76, practically 5 years after he revealed his analysis of Parkinson’s illness and simply two weeks after his final stay efficiency with the unique lineup of the band at Villa Park soccer stadium of their dwelling metropolis of Birmingham, central England.
In an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, launched on Dec. 10, Sharon, 73, stated her husband’s last phrases to her had been: “Kiss me. Hug me tight.”
“The evening earlier than he handed, he was up and all the way down to the toilet all evening, and it was like 4:30 a.m., and he stated, ‘Get up.’ I stated, ‘I’m already bloody awake, you’ve woken me up,’” Sharon recalled. “And he stated, ‘Kiss me,’” she shared. “After which he stated, ‘Hug me tight.’”
Sharon started to tear up as she remembered their final second collectively and questioned if there was extra she might have finished.
“If solely I’d have instructed him I beloved him extra. If solely I’d have held him tighter,” she stated.
She stated the following morning Ozzy went downstairs to train for 20 minutes earlier than he “handed away” after she stated he suffered a coronary heart assault.
Sharon stated there was screaming in the home and she or he ran all the way down to the fitness center to see what was occurring.
“I ran downstairs, and there he was, they usually had been making an attempt to resuscitate him, and I’m like, ‘Don’t — simply depart him. Go away him. You may’t. He’s gone,” she recalled.
In that second, Sharon stated she “knew immediately” that her husband of greater than 43 years was “gone.”
“They usually tried and tried, after which they took him by helicopter to the hospital they usually tried, and it’s like, ‘He’s gone. Simply depart him.’”
Sharon additionally shared that Ozzy stated he was having “actually vivid desires” over the last week of his life, the place he was “seeing those that he by no means knew.”
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“I stated, ‘Effectively, what sort of folks?’ He goes, ‘All completely different folks and I simply preserve strolling and strolling, and I’m seeing all these completely different folks each evening, and I am going again there and I’m taking a look at these folks they usually’re taking a look at me and no one’s speaking.’ And he knew he was prepared,” she instructed Morgan.
She stated that Ozzy requested her if she thought she’d ever get married once more after he handed.
“I’m like, ‘F— off, are you joking?’ Piss off,” she stated, whereas laughing.
Morgan requested Sharon if she might ever “think about marrying anyone else.”
“By no means. Oh my god. No. By no means. Ever. Ever. Ever. No,” she responded.
Reflecting on Osbourne’s last efficiency, Sharon stated that the Loopy Practice singer “didn’t need to die on stage” however “he knew that it was that shut.”
“He’d been so ailing this yr — terribly, terribly ailing. And once we got here to England and we had been assembly with new medical doctors right here, a brand new medical workforce for him, the principle physician stated to him, ‘In the event you do that present, that’s it. You’re not going to get by means of it.’ And we simply sat there and he stated, ‘I’m doing it. I need to do it and I’m doing it,’” she recalled.
Sharon stated her husband’s physique was “failing” and he was in “a lot ache.”
“He had pneumonia 3 times this yr. He’d had sepsis and that’s what actually, actually destroyed him. I imply, he was on these pictures of antibiotics. It used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in and he had that twice a day. And it kills every thing in you, the great, the dangerous, every thing. A lot antibiotics and he simply couldn’t recover from that,” she shared.
She stated that he went by means of with the ultimate present as a result of he needed “so dangerous to say thanks to everybody.”
“I feel he truthfully did know that he was finished. It was his time,” she stated, confirming that Ozzy knew if he went forward with the present that it might kill him.
Sharon stated Ozzy was “so glad” after having the ability to take part in his last occasion, honouring his musical legacy and performing a number of songs solo earlier than being joined onstage for the primary time in 20 years by his former Black Sabbath bandmates. The band ended a brief set with Paranoid, one among its most well-known songs.
“He saved trying on the papers, and he goes to me, ‘I by no means knew so many individuals favored me,’ however that was the best way he was,” Sharon stated. “I imply, he knew he was well-known, however not the quantity that folks beloved him. It’s a complete completely different factor, and he was simply so glad, so so glad.”
On July 22, Ozzy’s household introduced that he had died, saying, “It’s with extra disappointment than mere phrases can convey that we have now to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning. He was together with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness at the moment.”
1000’s of followers lined Broad Avenue in Birmingham, England, on July 30 to say goodbye to the rock icon throughout a funeral procession.
Sharon and two of the couple’s youngsters, Jack and Kelly, adopted the late rocker’s hearse in a automotive because it made its approach by means of the streets of the English metropolis the place Ozzy grew up and the place Black Sabbath was shaped in 1968.
The household of Ozzy Osbourne (left to proper), Jack Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne view the messages and floral tributes left on the Black Sabbath Bridge bench on Broad Avenue in Birmingham, England, in reminiscence of Ozzy Osbourne, because the rock icon’s physique is introduced again to his dwelling metropolis for a procession following his loss of life at age 76. Image date July 30, 2025.
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Six automobiles carrying the Osbourne household — who coated all prices for the procession — adopted the hearse. They received out of their automobiles to have a look at the goodbye messages left for Osbourne.
A personal funeral service was held for the Osbourne household and shut buddies later within the day at an undisclosed location.
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