Sharon Osbourne has opened up about the profound pain she has experienced following the passing of her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, revealing that she felt she ‘didn’t want to live anymore’. She shared that there was only one thing that kept her from taking her own life.
The legendary Black Sabbath frontman passed away at 76 in July after suffering from a heart attack, amidst his ongoing struggle with Parkinson’s disease.
During a heartfelt interview on Piers Morgan: Uncensored that aired on Wednesday, Sharon Osbourne discussed how, in the wake of her husband’s death, one crucial factor stopped her from ‘going with Ozzy’ and ending her life.
In the emotional conversation, Sharon disclosed that her children—Aimee, 42, Kelly, 41, and Jack, 40—were the reason she chose to continue living despite her overwhelming grief.
“I would have just gone with Ozzy… Oh, yeah, definitely, I’ve done everything I wanted to do…,” she began. “But they’ve been, they’ve been, excuse me, unbelievably, just magnificent with me, all three of them.”
Piers Morgan asked: “They’re the reason, and their kids are the reason why you’ve got to hang in there?”
The former X Factor judge replied: “Years ago, when I had one of my mental breakdowns, I went into a little facility to help with my head and there were two girls over there.”
“They didn’t know each other, but they were in there, each mother had committed suicide, and I saw the state that these two young women were in and what it had done to their lives, and I thought, I will never, ever, ever do that to my kids.”
Initially, Sharon struggled with grief in the first few weeks, but she revealed she has since accepted it, even describing it as her ‘friend’.
She explained: “Grief has now become my friend… 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, and I’ll get used to it. I will, I have to, you know, things move on.”
The couple had been married for 43 years before Ozzy’s untimely death. Throughout their years together, they supported one another through numerous personal challenges, including addiction and infidelity.
Despite the ups and downs, their love was strong, and Sharon still finds it difficult to adjust to life without Ozzy, often referred to as the ‘prince of darkness’.
She confessed: “You know, each day I go, “What am I going to do with myself? What the f**k am I going to do?”
One way Sharon copes with her loss is by visiting Ozzy’s grave at their family estate daily, where she talks to him and shares her thoughts.
“Everybody goes down there and has a chat with him,” she said. “I burn several candles in the house, that are always replaced. It’s never without candles, by his pictures and just in the house.”
“It’s an ache that you wake up with, and you can’t get rid of that ache. It’s like a big hole inside of you, and the kids feel exactly the same way, and it’s just, what do you do? It’s inevitable that it happens to all of us.”
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