Kelly Osbourne has opened up about her mum Sharon’s pain over Ozzy’s final years. The Black Sabbath frontman will appear in a new TV documentary on Paramount+, which details Ozzy’s life and career before his death. In the film, Kelly speaks about her mother's heartache as she nursed Ozzy through painful operations and tried to help him in his final weeks. Ozzy died in June, just weeks after he took to the stage for a final performance with his band in Villa Park, Birmingham. Speaking about her mother Sharon, Kelly said: “I think what's happening to my mum is the most heartbreaking part of this whole thing. And I think that watching the man that she loves most in this world wither is really, really hard.”
Ozzy revealed earlier this year that he could no longer walk amid his years-long battle with Parkinson’s disease. However, he still managed to reunite with his bandmates Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward for their final gig earlier this year.
During the film, when Ozzy was suffering with pain, Sharon cries as she says: “It is hard on everyone, and you feel like you put a clown’s face on and say everything is gonna be great. And it’s not.”
Ozzy also considered taking his own life due to botched neck surgery. Speaking in the new Paramount+ documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now, he can be seen saying: “The thought of not doing any gigs anymore — I went really into depression. I’m on antidepressants now, actually. Because I was getting ready to off myself at some point.”
However, he never went through with it because he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to do it.
He explained: “I’ll go there in my head and I go, ‘What are you f****** talking about?’ Because knowing me, I’d half-do it and I’d be half-dead. I mean, I wouldn’t die, you know? That’s my luck.”
In 2019, Ozzy suffered a serious fall that left his neck broken, and he knew immediately that the hit was serious.
He said: “You instinctively know you’ve done f****** damage.” But his children admitted the fall was only the beginning of a nightmare for their father.
Son Jack Osbourne said: “He comes out of this surgery and he’s far worse than when he went in.”
And, daughter Kelly added: “I watched my dad go from being able to sit up to — I’m sorry to say this but I can’t think of anything else — having posture like f****** Gollum [from The Lord of the Rings].”