Sharon Osbourne has been open with fans about the late Ozzy Osbourne’s health journey over the past few years, after he confessed in 2020 that he had been living with Parkinson’s since 2003.
And she has been very candid and open about his death too, which was reportedly ruled to be a heart attack. The Black Sabbath legend passed away on July 22nd aged 76 at the family’s home in Buckinghamshire, England – less than three weeks after his emotional Back to the Beginning farewell concert with Black Sabbath at Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5th.
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Sharon Osbourne Says Ozzy Was Hanging On For His Final Show
The "Paranoid" hitmaker was upfront with fans early on that he wouldn't be performing throughout the entire concert, with other legendary bands such as Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, and more also taking to the stage. Ozzy performed a solo set before reuniting with the original Black Sabbath lineup for the first time in more than two decades for the historic show, which reportedly raised millions for charity.
The former X Factor judge didn't hold back when recalling her late husband's final moments on an episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored earlier this month. Morgan asked his friend whether she felt that her husband – who she shares kids Aimee, 42, Kelly, 41, and Jack 40, with – was hanging on for his farewell show, and she replied with a frank: "Very much so, because he'd been so ill this year. Terribly, terribly ill."
Ozzy Was Warned He Might Not Survive the Concert
Despite the "No More Tears" singer being monitored by a medical team throughout preparations for the show, Sharon said doctors were very blunt about the risks.
"When we came to England, and we were meeting with new doctors here and a new medical team for him, the main doctor said to him, 'If you do this show, that's it. You're not going to get through it,'" Sharon confessed. But Ozzy, never one to follow orders, refused to back down…
"We just sat there, and he said, 'I'm doing it. I want to do it, and I'm doing it," the former The Talk host recalled, adding that he fully understood the toll it would take on his body. "He knew. His body was failing him, he was in so much pain… so much pain.”
Ozzy's Fans Gave Him The Strength To Get Through The Show
Morgan described the farewell performance as "brilliant to watch," and asked where the "War Pigs" singer found the strength to make it through the night. And according to the Osbournes star, it was the fans who ultimately got him through it, and also what kept him hanging on for those several weeks afterwards.
"He just wanted it so bad to say thank you to everyone. And I think he honestly did know that he was done. It was his time," she confessed.
The former Good Morning Britain host asked: "So he knew that if you went ahead with the show, it would probably kill him?" Sharon replied: "Yeah. But he decided, 'I'm doing it.'"
Reflecting on the aftermath of the show, Morgan asked whether it felt like the perfect goodbye, saying: "When you look back at that show, do you feel it was the perfect way out?" Sharon replied: "He was so happy afterwards and he kept looking at the papers and he goes to me, 'I never knew so many people like me.'"
"But that was the way he was," she went on. "I mean, he knew he was famous, but not to the amount that people loved him. It's a whole different thing. And he was just so happy. So, so happy. And for two weeks he was, you know, really like every day was sunshine for him. He was really, really happy. So happy. Happier than we'd seen him in seven years."
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Sharon also detailed just how severe Ozzy's health issues had become in the months leading up to the concert and his passing, and detailed some of the things he was going through that fans may not have been aware of.
"He had pneumonia three times this year, he had sepsis, and that's what really destroyed him," she revealed. "I mean, he was on these shots of antibiotics, and it used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in, and he had that twice a day."
"It kills everything in you, the good, the bad, everything, (it was) so much antibiotics. He just couldn't get over that," she said, and then shared the couple's heartbreaking final exchange on the day Ozzy died.
Sharon recalled: "He was up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was like 4.30 and he said, 'Wake up'. I said, 'I'm already [expletive] awake, you've woken me up.' And he said, 'Kiss me.' And then he said, 'Hug me tight.'"
