Sharon Osbourne is sharing her final moments with beloved late husband and metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, revealing that their last night together was filled with love as well as the delightfully acerbic back-and-forth that made the couple unlikely reality TV superstars in the early 2000s on The Osbournes.
In an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Wednesday, Sharon detailed the last conversation she had with Ozzy, who died at 76 on July 22. She told Morgan that Ozzy was “up and down to the bathroom all night” and around 4:30 in the morning he asked her to “wake up!” Sharon said she responded, “I’m already bloody awake! You’ve woken me up!”
Then, in a heartbreakingly sweet moment, she said Ozzy asked her to “kiss me… Hug me tight,” which was the last thing he said to her before dying later that day. “If only I’d have told him I loved him more,” she said of the regret she felt after Ozzy’s passing. “If only I’d have held him tighter.”
Ozzy lived through the night and Sharon said he woke up the next day and went downstairs for his daily workout, dying a half hour later. She said she “knew instantly” that Ozzy was gone when she heard screaming in the house. “I ran downstairs, and there he was, and they were trying to resuscitate him, and I’m like, ‘Don’t — leave him. Leave him. You can’t. He’s gone,’” she recalled saying. “I knew instantly he’s gone. 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.’”
In the week before his death, Sharon said Ozzy described a recurring dream where he was “walking and walking” and seeing “people he never knew” who didn’t speak to him. “He knew, he was ready,” she said.
Sharon told Morgan that a doctor warned Ozzy that if he insisted on performing at what would be his final show — the all-star Back to the Beginning tribute gig in his native Birmingham on July 5 — “‘that’s it… you’re not gonna get through it,” she said the physician told them.
The chat also included Sharon describing how the couple’s children have kept her alive during this difficult time, her reaction to recent online comments about daughter Kelly’s appearance and her reaction to former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters’ unkind comments about Ozzy’s life and music following the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rocker’s death.
Watch Sharon Osbourne describe Ozzy’s final words (begins at 10:50 mark) below.
This story originally appeared on Billboard
