Sharon Osbourne revealed her late husband Ozzy’s final words to her before his death.
“He was up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was like 4:30 a.m., and he said, ‘Wake up.’ I said, ‘I’m already bloody awake, you’ve woken me up,’” Sharon recalled on Wednesday’s episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
“And he said, ‘Kiss me,” she remembered. “And then he said, ‘Hug me tight.’”
Sharon, 73, tearfully reflected on their last moments together, wondering if there was more she could have done.
“If only I’d have told him I loved him more. If only I’d have held him tighter,” she said.
The next morning, Sharon said that Ozzy went downstairs to work out for 20 minutes before he “passed away.”
“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,” she said.
Sharon said she “knew instantly” that her husband was “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,” she said.
Sharon knew that Ozzy was “ready” for death after he confided in her about the strange dreams he was having in the weeks leading up to his passing.
“He had told me that he was having dreams in the last week of his life. He was seeing people that he never knew,” Sharon shared.
“I said, ‘Well, what kind of people?’ He goes, ‘All different people. And I just keep walking and walking, and I’m seeing all these different people every night, and I go back there and I’m looking at these people, and they’re looking at me, and nobody’s talking,’” she said. “And he knew. He was ready.”
The Black Sabbath frontman died at the age of 76 on July 22 — nearly five years after he revealed his secret battle with Parkinson’s disease.
Nearly two weeks before his death, Ozzy performed a farewell concert in Birmingham, England, a 10-hour show honoring his legacy, which featured performances by Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and Jack Black.
Sharon said during the interview Wednesday that doctors warned Ozzy that there was a possibility he wouldn’t make it through his final show.
“He’d been so ill this year — terribly, terribly ill. And when we came to England and we were meeting with new doctors here, a new medical team for him, the main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it,’” she said, adding that Ozzy “very much so” knew that the end was near.
Ozzy decided to go ahead with the show, knowing that his body was “failing him.”
“He was in so much pain, so much pain. And I mean, you know, he had pneumonia three times this year. He’d had sepsis. That’s what really, really destroyed him,” she said.
“He was on these shots of antibiotics. It used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in, and he had that twice a day, and it kills everything in you, the good, the bad, everything,” she continued. “So much antibiotics, and he just couldn’t get over that. He just couldn’t.”
Ozzy was ultimately so grateful that he was able to participate in the event honoring his musical legacy.
“He was so happy afterwards. He kept looking at the papers, and he goes to me, ‘I never knew so many people liked me’, but that was the way he was,” Sharon said. “I mean, he knew he was famous, but not the amount that people loved him. It’s a whole different thing, and he was just so happy, so so happy.”
Sharon, who married Ozzy in 1982, said that during his last weeks, every day was “like sunshine.”
“[He was] Really, really happy, yeah, so happy — happier than we’d seen him in seven years,” she said.
The full interview is available to watch on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
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