Sharon Osbourne Recalls Ozzy's Final Words to Her the Night Before He Died

Sharon Osbourne has described the last words her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, spoke to her before he died in July 2025. In a new interview with the BBC, she said he woke during the night, asked her to kiss him twice, and then asked her to hold him tightly. She said she did both.

The Black Sabbath singer was 76 when he died. Sharon, 74, also told the BBC she has learned to live with the loss rather than expect it to pass, and that she visits his grave every day.

What Sharon Osbourne told the BBC

According to Far Out Magazine and HELLO!, both citing the BBC interview, the couple spoke during the night before the morning he died. Sharon said Ozzy woke up and asked for two kisses. Then, she recalled, he said, “Hold me, hold me tight.”

Far Out reported that Sharon was asleep when the morning turned into an emergency. She said someone rushed into the room and told her to come downstairs, and that she ran down. In her words, that was the end.

How Ozzy Osbourne died

Far Out reported that Ozzy died at his home in Buckinghamshire, less than three weeks after he played the Back to the Beginning Black Sabbath farewell show in Birmingham. According to that outlet, he had gone downstairs for his morning workout and suffered a heart attack soon afterward. An air ambulance arrived and paramedics tried to resuscitate him, but they could not save him.

HELLO! reported that cardiac arrest and acute myocardial infarction were later listed as the official cause of death. Far Out described the death as a cardiac arrest in its opening and as a heart attack in its account of the morning.

Living with the loss

HELLO! said Sharon spoke candidly about grief more than a year after the death of her husband of 43 years. She told the BBC that losing the love of your life is not something you recover from in a single moment. She said you do not wake up one day and declare yourself cured. As she described it, a person can either shut themselves away or accept the loss and, in her word, befriend it. She said she is trying to do the second.

She told the BBC she can see Ozzy’s grave from her window and talks to him regularly, according to Far Out.

The family’s account of the public response

HELLO! reported that tens of thousands of people gathered in Birmingham for a funeral procession after his death. The couple’s daughter Kelly, 42, told the magazine the public’s affection had helped the family through. She said they received and read every note, flower and gift, and replied to as many people as they could.

Kelly also described the past year as “the hardest year” of her life. She said she will not be the person she was before her father died and that she feels a part of her died as well. She added that she is taking things one day at a time.

Why it matters for fans and for those grieving

For fans, the interview offers a first-hand account of Ozzy Osbourne’s last night from the person closest to him. It also shows how his family is handling the first year without him. Sharon’s comments are a personal account of grief, and she presents it as ongoing rather than resolved.

Far Out reported that earlier this year, on the anniversary of his death, Sharon asked fans to remember how funny, charismatic and real he was. She said he never tried to be anything other than himself and that he told the truth about everything. She also relayed how she said Ozzy would want to be remembered: by turning the music up as loud as possible and headbanging.

Around Prague, based on reporting by Far Out Magazine, HELLO! Magazine