The Prince of Darkness may be gone, but his widow is finding a way to carry the heartbreak rather than hide from it. In a candid new conversation, she looked back on his triumphant final show, their last moments together, and the reason his resting place remains private.
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Sharon Osbourne is getting candid about life without her husband, Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne. The rock icon died at 76 in July 2025 at his home in Buckinghamshire, England.
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne attend the Billy Morrison - Aude Somnia Solo Exhibition at Elisabeth Weinstock on September 28, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. | Source: Getty Images
More than a year has passed since that heartbreaking day, but for Sharon, the grief still feels raw. In fact, the 74-year-old TV personality doesn't believe she'll ever fully move past losing Ozzy.
"You've lost the love of your life, so you don't just wake up and go, 'I'm fine now. I'm cured.' You never get over it," Sharon said in a new interview with the BBC, published on Monday, October 26.
"But you learn to live with it, and that's what I'm trying to do," she continued. "So you either sit in a room and don't come out, or you accept it, befriend it and that's it."
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Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne appear as themselves on "The Conners" (2020) | Source: Getty Images
In the years leading up to his death, Ozzy had battled a number of health issues, including Parkinson's disease, which he spoke about openly. Even so, news of his passing came as a shock to fans around the world.
Just weeks earlier, the musician had taken the stage one final time at a farewell concert in his hometown of Birmingham. The performance left him on a high. "He was just so, so happy," Sharon recalled.
"He was online, going through the reviews and saying, 'There's something terribly wrong', and I'm like, 'Why?' He goes, 'I didn't get slagged by anybody. Why are people being nice to me?' And I'm like, 'Because they like you,'" she said.
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On the morning of July 22, 2025, Ozzy woke up early and headed downstairs for his usual morning workout. Shortly afterward, he suffered a heart attack. An air ambulance was called, and paramedics fought to save him, but it was too late.
"I was asleep," Sharon said. "We'd spoken in the night. Ozzy had woken in the night and he asked me to kiss him twice, and I did. And then he said, 'Hold me, hold me tight,' and I did."
"And then the next thing I know, it's early in the morning, and someone comes rushing into the room saying, 'Come down now.' I ran down, and that was it," she shared.
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Days after the family announced his death, Ozzy was honored with a funeral cortege through the streets of Birmingham.
Thousands of fans gathered to bid the star farewell, laying floral tributes and singing Black Sabbath songs as his hearse made its way through his home city. A private burial, attended only by his family, was held later.
Jack, Sharon, and Kelly Osbourne view the messages and floral tributes left at the Black Sabbath Bridge bench on Broad Street in Birmingham, in memory of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, as his body is brought back to his home city for a procession following his death at age 76. Picture date: Wednesday July 30, 2025. | Source: Getty Images
"There was no way I could put Ozzy in a public graveyard," Sharon explained. "I've seen what happens to other people in the public eye. There's no peace because people want to come and they want to pay their respects. That's an ongoing thing, and I wanted Ozzy to rest and just be."
Keeping her husband close to home also means Sharon never has to go far to be near him. When asked if she visits him, she replied, "Of course, every day. I can see him from my window."
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