Sharon Osbourne has revealed why she abandoned the assisted-suicide pact she once shared with late husband Ozzy Osbourne.
The TV personality, 74, told Piers Morgan on his podcast Piers Morgan Uncensored that her three children were the decisive factor in her change of heart. “I would have just gone with Ozzy,” she admitted, had it not been for Aimee, Kelly and Jack Osbourne.
Sharon described Ozzy’s final moments in detail during the conversation. “He had a heart attack,” she recalled. “I ran downstairs, and there he was, and they were trying to resuscitate him, and I’m like, ‘Don’t — just leave him. Leave him. You can’t. He’s gone’.”
“I knew instantly he’d gone,” she continued. “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’.”
The Black Sabbath frontman died at age 76 last year from a heart attack after years of battling Parkinson’s disease. Four months after his death, Sharon is marking her birthday without her husband of 43 years.
The assisted-dying agreement between the couple dated back years. In her 2007 memoir Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography, Sharon disclosed that she and Ozzy had planned to use a Swiss assisted-dying organization if either developed dementia. Ozzy later expanded the pact in a 2014 interview to include other life-threatening diseases and illnesses.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror in 2007, Sharon had been explicit about their intentions: “We believe 100 percent in euthanasia so [we] have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains. If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer’s, that’s it — we’d be off. We gathered the kids around the kitchen table, told them our wishes and they’ve all agreed to go with it.”
Yet Sharon’s perspective shifted dramatically after a formative experience during one of her mental health crises. “Years ago, when I had one of my mental breakdowns, I went into a little facility to help with my head,” she explained to Morgan.
“And there were two girls over there. They didn’t know each other, but they were in there, each mother had committed suicide,” she said. “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.”
Sharon praised her children’s support since Ozzy’s passing. “You know they’ve been unbelievable, just magnificent with me, all three of them,” she shared.
The apparent contradiction with her more recent statements adds complexity to the narrative. During a 2023 episode of The Osbournes podcast, Sharon had seemed to reaffirm the pact was still active. “Do you think that we’re gonna suffer?,” she asked when the topic arose.
Jack responded: “Aren’t we already all suffering?,” prompting Sharon to reply: “Yes, we all are, but I don’t want it to actually hurt as well. Mental suffering is enough pain without physical. So if you’ve got mental and physical, see ya.”
That exchange, recorded roughly two years before Ozzy’s death, suggested the agreement remained in place even as his health declined. The family has navigated both public mourning and reported tensions among the siblings since his passing.
Sharon’s birthday this year falls during a period of acute grief, with the interview marking one of her most candid discussions about the loss.