Sharon Osbourne has given a lengthy interview following the sad death of her husband Ozzy Osbourne earlier this year, where she opened up about her loss
Sharon Osbourne has recalled the exact moment she found her husband Ozzy Osbourne dead. The reality icon sadly lost her husband earlier this year just a few weeks after he performed for the final time.
Ozzy led the celebrations sat on a throne in Birmingham alongside his Black Sabbath bandmates and music friends at Villa Park, but sadly he died just a few weeks later surrounded by his loved ones.
Sharon has now spoken out for the first time in a lengthy interview about her love and loss. Speaking about his passing, she said in a new interview with friend Piers Morgan: “The main doctor said to him that if he did the show, ‘that’s it, you’re not gonna get through it. … He didn’t want to die on stage, he didn’t.”
Piers clarified: “So he knew that if he went ahead with the show, it would probably kill him. I don’t know how you feel given how painful it has been to lose him.” Sharon then broke down and wiped her tears away.
She explained how important it was for them all to return to Birmingham for Ozzy’s funeral so his kids could see how much the rockstar meant to the world, as people lined the streets for his final homecoming.
The matriarch of the Osbourne family also recalled the moment she found him dead and how she screamed uncontrollably at realising he had passed. She said, according to The Sun: “He had a heart attack. I ran downstairs, and there he was, and they were trying to resuscitate him, and I’m like, ‘Don’t — just leave him. Leave him. You can’t. He’s gone’. I knew instantly he’d gone. And they tried and tried, and then they took him by helicopter to the hospital and they tried, and it’s like, ‘He’s gone. Just leave him.'”
Sharon also explained how Ozzy would use the crosstrainer for up to an hour and a half a day, even with his ill health. Sharing a moment from their final night together for the first time, Sharon said Ozzy had been up and down out of bed all night.
“He said, ‘Kiss me’. And then he said, ‘Hug me tight’. I can’t help wondering if I should have, could I have? If only I’d have told him I loved him more. If only I’d have held him tighter. And he went downstairs, worked out for 20 minutes and passed away,” she said.
Heartbreakingly, Sharon also revealed that she struggled with her own mental health and said it was purely her kids that kept her going. “I would have just gone with Ozzy, definitely. I’ve done everything I wanted to do,” she said. She recalled how she had, in the past, met women who had lost their mothers to suicide. It was then she vowed to never do the same to her kids.
Ozzy has been laid to rest in the grounds of the family home, under an apple tree, where Sharon visits him daily. Before his death, the rocker had joked that he wanted his kids to make wine from the fruit and get drunk.
Sharon had previously explained that her husband’s health had been getting worse for a while following a “domino effect” of ill health, which started the December before when he became poorly whilst the family were on holiday.
“It started in December of last year, the kind of getting worse. We were supposed to go to Finland, Daddy was going to stay here [in the UK], while we went to Finland and then we were going to stay for Christmas, New Year and stay until the show,” she said.
“It was the first week of December and he wasn’t feeling great and he took a little fall and he kept saying ‘My back hurts’ and we left on the 10th and said ‘You can come with everyone a little bit later’. He went to the hospital.”
Jack then added: “Backing up a bit, he wasn’t very good at handling pain… but being the gentleman he was, he didn’t tell anyone he took a fall and it turned out he had a fracture in his back, in his vertebrae … It started a domino effect.”
Sharon also confessed she struggled to sleep in the wake of her husband’s death. “I hate going to bed at night,” she said, as Kelly added: “I mean, I slept with you for the first two months so that you weren’t on your own. But then I felt like you needed some space.
“I wake up and for the first three seconds I feel normal. And then I remember everything. Mornings are the hardest for me. What is the morning? Because it happened in the morning. And I used to spend most of my time with Dad in the morning.”
The family reflected on how much Ozzy would have been grateful for everyone’s support.
“The outpouring of love has been so helpful to us. I never could have even imagined it to be as helpful as it has been to know that we’re not alone in our grief, in our sadness and that the rest of the world loved him as much as we did… I haven’t seen an outpouring like that since Princess Diana died. I didn’t expect it,” Kelly said.
Sharon added: “Ozzy, he wouldn’t believe it. He wouldn’t. He didn’t realise how much he was loved and that was his beauty because he never took it for granted from anyone. He never took it for granted I’m this, I’m that. He had no idea.”
*If you are struggling with mental health, you can speak to a trained advisor from Mind mental health charity on 0300 123 3393 or email info@mind.org.uk
