The rocker died in July at age 76
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NEED TO KNOW
- Jack Osbourne opened up about dad Ozzy Osbourne’s final day
- Jack said the morning Ozzy died “wasn’t anything dramatic at all” on Jamie Kennedy’s podcast
- Ozzy died on July 22 at age 76
Ozzy Osbourne lived the wild, rollicking life of a rock star, but his final days were some of peaceful routine.
The musician’s son Jack Osbourne appeared on Jamie Kennedy’s podcast Hate to Break It to Ya on Wednesday, March 4, and revealed that July 22, the day his father died at age 76, was just like any other.
“It was a few days after I got back that he passed, and we were… Even the morning that he passed, it was like, it wasn’t anything dramatic at all,” Jack, 40, said. “He was up, he was doing his thing, had some breakfast, and that was it.”
Though Osbourne’s official cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest, contributing factors included Parkinson’s disease, with which he’d been diagnosed in 2003. Still, Jack said that the “Crazy Train” singer’s death was “a surprise for sure.”
“Obviously everyone knew he was sick, but it wasn’t… He was really gearing up for the [Black Sabbath final] show, so he was exercising a lot and moving around. He was fired up,” Jack said. “But yeah, we weren’t expecting it to be as quick as it was. I just think he was done… I do think we have a choice, to a degree.”
Osbourne’s family — including Jack, daughter Kelly, 41, and wife Sharon, 73 — have spoken at length about the star since his death, and Kelly and Sharon appeared at the 2026 BRIT Awards to accept a lifetime achievement award on his behalf.
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“I know that Ozzy is looking down on us all right now, and I know what he is thinking. He hated to make speeches. He hated listening to speeches. He’d be saying, ‘Hey, missus, shut the f— up!' ” Sharon joked. “But I’m not going to… He always wanted to do better, both personally and professionally. He never felt that words were enough to thank everybody for the life that he was given and for the life that he led. He may not be here, but he left us one amazing body of work that will never be forgotten by the country that made him.”
In February, Sharon appeared on Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast, and said her husband “knew” he was nearing the end of his life before his final performance with Black Sabbath on July 5.
“He needed [to perform]. And [he was] like, ‘Whether I die in two weeks or I die in six months, I’m still dying. And I want to go my way,’” she recalled. “[And] he did. He went like a rock star.”
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