Sharon Osbourne revealed her late husband Ozzy Osbourne last words to her his deathwhen she first spoke about the rock icon's final moments.
The Black Sabbath singer died in July at the age of 76, almost five years after he was told he had Parkinson's disease and just two weeks later. after his last live performance with the band's original line-up at the Villa Park football stadium in their home city of Birmingham, central England.
IN interview on Piers Morgan uncensoredIn the film, released on December 10, Sharon, 73, said her husband's last words to her were: “Kiss me. Hold me tight.”
“The night before he died he had been in the bathroom all night and it was about 4:30 in the morning and he said, 'Wake up.' “I said, ‘I’m already awake, you woke me up,’” Sharon recalls. “And he said, 'Kiss me,'” she shared. “And then he said, 'Hold me tight.'
Sharon began to cry as she remembered their last moment together and wondered if there was anything more she could have done.
“If only I had told him I loved him more. If only I had hugged him tighter,” she said.
She said Ozzy went downstairs the next morning to exercise for 20 minutes before he “passed away” after she said he suffered a heart attack.
Sharon said there was screaming in the house and she ran to the gym to see what was happening.
“I ran downstairs and there he was and they were trying to resuscitate him and I was like, ‘Don’t, just leave him. Leave him alone. You can't. He left,” she recalls.
At that point, Sharon said she “knew immediately” that her husband of more than 43 years was “gone.”
“And they tried and tried, and then they took him in a helicopter to the hospital, and they tried, and it’s like, ‘He’s gone. Just leave him.”
Sharon also revealed that Ozzy said that in the last week of his life he had “really vivid dreams” in which he “saw people he never knew.”
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“I said, 'Well, what kind of people are they?' He says, “Everybody's a different person, and I just keep going and going, and I see all these different people every night, and I go back there, and I look at these people, and they look at me, and no one talks.” And he knew he was ready,” she told Morgan.
She said Ozzy asked her if she thought she would ever get married again after his death.
“I was like, 'Okay, are you kidding me?' “Fuck off,” she said, laughing.
Morgan asked Sharon if she could ever “imagine marrying someone else.”
“Never. Oh my God. No. Never. Never. Never. Never. No,” she replied.
Reflecting on Osbourne's latest performance, Sharon said that Crazy Train the singer “didn't want to die on stage” but “he knew it was so close.”
“He was so sick this year – terribly, terribly sick. And when we came to England and met with new doctors here, a new medical team for him, the chief doctor told him: 'If you do this show, that's it.' You can’t handle this.’ And we just sat there and he said, ‘I’m doing this.’ I want to do this and I’m doing it,” she recalls.
Sharon said her husband's body was “giving up” and he was in “a lot of pain.”
“He had pneumonia three times this year. He had sepsis, and that's what really killed him. I mean, he took these antibiotic shots. It used to be a 20-minute shot, and he did it twice a day. And it kills everything in you: the good, the bad, everything. So many antibiotics, and he just couldn't handle it,” she shared.
She said he went to the final show because he “really wanted to say thank you to everyone.”
“I think he really knew he was done. It was his time,” she said, confirming that Ozzy knew if he continued the show it might kill him.
Sharon said Ozzy was “so happy” after being able to take part in his latest event, paying tribute to his musical heritage and performing several songs solo before being joined on stage by his former Black Sabbath bandmates for the first time in 20 years. The band ended their short set with paranoidone of the most famous songs.
“He kept looking through the papers and said to me, ‘I never knew so many people liked me,’ but he was,” Sharon said. “I mean, he knew he was famous, but he didn't know that people loved him. It's a whole different thing, and he was so happy, so happy.”
On July 22, Ozzy's family announced. that he died saying: “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we must announce that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask that everyone respect our family's privacy at this time.”
On July 30, thousands of fans lined Broad Street in Birmingham, England, to bid farewell to the rock icon. funeral procession.
Sharon and the couple's two children, Jack And Kellyfollowed the late rocker's hearse through the streets of the English city where Ozzy grew up and where Black Sabbath was formed in 1968.
The family of Ozzy Osbourne (from left), Jack Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne view messages and flowers left on a Black Sabbath Bridge bench on Broad Street in Birmingham, England, in memory of Ozzy Osbourne as the rock icon's body is brought back to his hometown for a procession following his death at the age of 76. Photo date: July 30. 2025.
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The hearse was followed by six cars containing the Osborne family, who covered all expenses for the procession. They got out of their cars to review the farewell messages left for Osborne.
Private funeral services were held for the Osborne family and close friends later that day at an undisclosed location.
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