Sharon Osbourne has broken her silence on the final exchange she shared with Ozzy Osbourne before his death last summer.
The 73-year-old television personality said in a Monday interview that the Black Sabbath frontman, 76, had woken during the night and made two intimate requests of her. “We’d spoken in the night. Ozzy had woken in the night and he asked me to kiss him twice, and I did,” she recalled.
“And then he said, ‘Hold me, hold me tight,’ and I did,” Sharon continued.
That morning, the scene shifted abruptly. Someone came running into Sharon’s room and told her to come downstairs immediately. “I ran down, and that was it,” she said.
The singer died at his home in Buckinghamshire, England, on July 22. His death certificate listed cardiac arrest as the cause, along with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction.
More than a year later, Sharon described grief as a permanent companion rather than a temporary condition. “You’ve lost the love of your life, so you don’t just wake up and go, ‘I’m fine now. I’m cured,'” she told the outlet.
“You never get over it. But you learn to live with it, and that’s what I’m trying to do. So you either sit in a room and don’t come out, or you accept it, befriend it, and that’s it,” she added.
Sharon now visits Ozzy’s grave daily, she said.
Her daughter Kelly Osbourne, 41, who joined her mother for the interview, spoke about the unexpected solace the family has found in public mourning. “I never could have imagined it to be as helpful as it has been to know that we’re not alone in our grief and our sadness, and that the rest of the world loved him as much as we did,” Kelly said.
The mother-daughter appearance marked a rare window into how the family has navigated the first year without the “Prince of Darkness.”
Sharon and Ozzy’s marriage spanned more than five decades after they met in 1970 and wed in 1982. The union produced three children: Aimee, 43, Kelly, and Jack, 40. Their relationship weathered public storms including Ozzy’s substance abuse struggles and infidelity.
On the first anniversary of his death this July, Sharon shared how the rocker wanted to be remembered. “As Ozzy would say, ‘When you want to remember me, just yank up the music really loud. As loud as you can get it, and just head bang,'” she said in a separate interview marking the date.
The couple’s enduring bond had become a touchstone for fans who followed their relationship from the early days of Black Sabbath through the reality television era and Ozzy’s later health battles.
Sharon’s account of their final night together offers the most detailed description yet of the hours preceding the death that prompted global tributes to one of heavy metal’s founding figures.
