Sharon Osbourne still remembers her final conversation with husband Ozzy Osbourne ahead of his death at 76.
“He told me that he was having dreams the last week of his life. He was seeing people that he never knew,” Sharon, 73, said on the Wednesday, December 10, episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored. “I said, ‘Well, what kind of people?’ He goes, ‘All different people. I just keep walking and walking, and I’m seeing all these different people every night, and I go back there and I’m looking at these people, and they’re looking at me, and nobody’s talking.’ And he knew. He was ready.”
Sharon further mused that Ozzy had been experiencing “really, really vivid dreams” in the days before his death.
“The night before he passed, he [got] up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was like 4:30 and he said, ‘Wake up,’” Sharon recalled. “He said, ‘Kiss me,’ and then he said, ‘Hug me tight?’”
Sharon discovered the next morning that Ozzy had died.
“[I heard] screaming in the house, and I ran downstairs, and there he was, and they were trying to resuscitate him, and I’m, like, ‘Don’t, leave him. He’s gone,’” she said. “I knew instantly he’s 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.’”
Luxury Handbag Shopping confirmed on July 22 that Ozzy had died after battling Parkinson’s disease.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the Black Sabbath frontman’s family wrote in a statement to Luxury Handbag Shopping at the time. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
In addition to Sharon, Ozzy is survived by his six children and multiple grandchildren. Ozzy, who had three older kids from a previous relationship, shared daughters Kelly and Aimee, as well as son Jack with Sharon.
While speaking with Morgan, 60, Sharon acknowledged that Ozzy’s health had been declining before his death.
“He’d been so ill this year, terribly, terribly ill, and when we came to England, we were meeting with new doctors here,” Sharon said. “The main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this [farewell] show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.’ We just sat there, and he said, ‘I’m doing it, I want to do it and I’m doing it.’”
Ozzy reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates for one last concert earlier this summer. All proceeds from the gig, held in the U.K., supported local charities.
“He knew his body was failing him. He was in so much pain. He had pneumonia three times this year. He’d had sepsis, and that’s what really, really destroyed him,” Sharon said. “I mean, he was on these shots of antibiotics. It used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in, and he had that twice a day, and it kills everything in you, the good, the bad, everything, so much antibiotics, and he just couldn’t get over that. He just couldn’t.”
Regardless of the physical pain, Sharon noted that Ozzy was “so happy” to be back on stage again.
“He kept looking at the [newspapers], and he goes to me, ‘I never knew so many people liked me,’ but that was the way he was,” she said. “I mean, he knew he was famous, but not to the amount that people loved him. For two weeks, [it] was like every day was sunshine for him [and] happier than we’d seen him in seven years.”
Sharon and her family have since been processing their new normal following Ozzy’s death.
“Grief has now become my friend,” she stated. “Is it very weird to me, you know, when you love someone that much and you’re grieving for them, it’s what I have to live with. I’ll get used to it. I will, I have to, you know, things move on.”
Sharon also revealed that she could “never” get married again.
“He was [asking], ‘When I go, do you think he’ll ever get married?’” she said, detailing one of her last conversations with her husband. “I’m like, ‘F*** off, piss off.’”
