In a deeply emotional new interview, Sharon Osbourne revealed that both her family and her late husband, legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, were fully aware that his time was severely limited leading up to his final performance.
Appearing on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast hosted by Bunnie XO (real name Alisa DeFord, wife of country singer Jelly Roll), Sharon discussed her life after the July 2025 passing of the metal icon. When asked how she is “picking [herself] back up” after the loss, she said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth):
”I’m getting there. I’m getting there. It’s hard. Jesus, it’s hard, but I’m getting there. I’m gonna keep working and I’m gonna keep doing what I do in my life. And that’s it.”
In July 2025, Ozzy took the stage for the “Back To The Beginning” farewell concert. According to Sharon, medical professionals had explicitly warned him about the severe risks of performing following a life-threatening battle with sepsis earlier in the year.
“It’s kind of bittersweet, because, again, we knew. Ozzy had sepsis earlier on last year. And very few people ever walk away from that without losing a limb or their life… And as soon as he got sepsis, the kids and I, we knew it was time. And then when we went to England, he went into hospital for a week. And when he came out, they said, ‘You know, Ozzy, this could kill you.’ And he said, ‘I’m doing my show.’ And it was — I mean, he went out like a king.”
Despite the grim prognosis, Ozzy refused to step down. Sharon explained his mindset going into that historic final gig:
“Yeah. Two weeks before the show, they said he could probably die, and he did. But he wanted to do it so bad. He needed it. And it’s, like, ‘Whether I die in two weeks or I die in six months, I’m still dying. And I wanna go my way.’ And he did. He went like a rock star.”
She compared his stubborn determination to perform to an elderly person refusing to quit their lifelong habits:
“The thing is when you’ve lived your life that way, and it was, like, ‘Okay, six months more to go out the way I wanna go out.’ It’s like saying, when you get really old and somebody’s still smoking and they’re, like, 78 years of age, and you’re, like, just let him smoke. Leave him alone. He’s 78. Leave him alone. And it’s, like, he went the way he wanted to go. He knew. He knew.”
Ozzy Osbourne ultimately passed away at the age of 76 due to a heart attack. Reflecting on the day he died, Sharon recalled the speed of his passing and her immediate realization that he was already gone:
“It was so quick,” she said. “And thank God. And I knew when they were trying to revive him, I knew. I’m, like, ‘Don’t. Don’t do it. Leave him.’ He was done. But again, he went out like a rock star. Ooh, did he ever? … He was a king. And he loved people. He loved his audience. He loved ’em so much. And even if you didn’t like his music, you couldn’t dislike him.”
These new details align with the heartbreaking timeline Sharon first shared back in December during an interview with Piers Morgan on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” In that conversation, she described her final evening with the singer at their home in Buckinghamshire, England, just weeks after the Black Sabbath farewell show:
“He was up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was like 4.30 and he said, ‘Wake up.’ I said, ‘I’m already bloody awake. You’ve woken me up.’ And he said, ‘Kiss me.’ And then he said, ‘Hug me tight.'”
Carrying the heavy weight of hindsight, she added:
“I can’t help wondering if I should have, could I have? If only I’d have told him I loved him more. If only I’d have held him tighter. And he went downstairs, worked out for 20 minutes and passed away.”
When medical personnel arrived following his heart attack, Sharon knew that her husband of over four decades had already moved on:
“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. 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.'”
