Sharon Osbourne reveals Ozzy Osbourne's last words to her before he died – National

Sharon Osbourne has revealed the last words her late husband Ozzy Osbourne had to her before he passed away, opening up for the first time about the rock icon's final days.

Black Sabbath's lead singer died in July at the age of 76, nearly five years after revealing his Parkinson's disease diagnosis and just two weeks after his last live performance with the band's original line-up at the Villa Park football stadium in Birmingham, central England.

In an interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored published on December 10, Sharon, 73, said her husband's last words to her were: “Kiss me. Hold me tight.”

“The night before he died, he was going back and forth to the bathroom all night, and at about 4:30 a.m., he said, 'Wake up.' I said, 'I'm awake, you woke me up,'” Sharon recalled. “And he said, 'Kiss me,'” she said. “Then he said, 'Hold me tight.'”

Sharon begins to cry as she remembers their last moments together and wonders if she could have done more.

“If only I had told him I loved him more. If I had held him tighter,” she said.

The next morning, she said, Ozzy went downstairs to exercise for 20 minutes, then had a heart attack and “died.”

Sharon said she heard screams inside the house and ran into the gym to see what was going on.

“I ran downstairs and there he was and they were trying to resuscitate him and I was like, 'No, leave him alone. Leave him alone. No, he's gone,'” she recalled.

At that moment, Sharon said she “instantly knew” that her husband of more than 43 years had “passed away.”

“And they tried and tried, they took him to the hospital in a helicopter, they tried, and they were like, 'He's gone. Leave him alone.'

Sharon also said Ozzy had “really vivid dreams” in the last week of his life in which he was “meeting complete strangers.”

“I said, 'So, what are these people like?' He goes, 'All these different people and I just keep walking and I meet different people every night and I get back there and I see these people and they're looking at me and no one's talking.' And he knew he was ready,” she told Morgan.

Ozzy asked her if she thought she would ever get married again after he died, she said.

“I’m like, ‘Fuck you, are you kidding me?’ It makes me angry,” she said with a laugh.

Morgan asked Sharon, “Can you imagine marrying someone else?”

“Never. Never. No, never. Never. Never. Never. No,” she answered.

Reflecting on Osbourne's final performance, Sharon said the Crazy Train singer “didn't want to die on stage” but “knew it was coming.”

“This year he was very unwell. Very, very ill. And when we came to England and were meeting with the new doctors here, his new medical team, his doctor said to him, 'If you do this show, that's it. You're never going to get over this.' And we just sat there and he said, 'I'm doing it.' I want to do it and I do,” she recalled.

Sharon said her husband's body was “weakened” and he was “in a lot of pain.”

“He's had pneumonia three times this year. He's had sepsis and that's what really, really broke him down. I mean, he was getting antibiotic shots, which used to take 20 minutes to go through, and he was getting them twice a day. And it kills everything in you, the good, the bad. So many antibiotics, he just couldn't get through it,” she shared.

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She said he performed his final show “to say thank you to everyone.”

“I think he honestly knew it was over. His time had come,” she said, acknowledging that Ozzy knew he could risk his life if he continued on the show.

Sharon said she was “so happy” that Ozzy was able to attend the final event, paying homage to his musical legacy and performing a few solo songs before being joined on stage by his former Black Sabbath bandmates for the first time in 20 years. The band ended their short set with one of their most famous songs, Paranoid.

“He kept looking at the newspaper and he came up to me and said, 'I didn't know so many people liked me,' and that's what he was like,” Sharon said. “I mean, he knew he was famous, but not as much as people loved him. That was a whole other thing, and he was just very happy, very happy.”

On July 22nd, Ozzy's family announced his death, saying, “It is with sadness that words cannot express that we must announce that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect the family's privacy at this time.”

On July 30th, thousands of fans lined Broad Street in Birmingham, England to bid farewell to the rock icon during his funeral.

Sharon and the couple's two children, Jack and Kelly, drove after the late rocker's hearse through the streets of the British city where Ozzy grew up and where Black Sabbath formed in 1968.

Six cars carrying the Osborne family (all costs of the procession paid for) followed the hearse. They got out of the car and saw a farewell message left for Osborn.

A private funeral service was held later that day at an undisclosed location for the Osborne family and close friends.

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