Sharon Osbourne has revealed the final words Ozzy Osbourne said to her before he died.
During a tearful interview on her friend Piers Morgan’s YouTube show Uncensored, the TV personality revealed what the Black Sabbath rocker said to her when he woke up on 22 July, the day he died.
“He was up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was like 4.30 and he said, ‘Wake up.’ I said, ‘I’m already b**ody awake, you’ve woken me up.’ And he said, ‘Kiss me.’ And then he said, ‘Hug me tight,'” she recalled the 76-year-old saying.
“I can’t help wondering if I should have, could I have? If only I’d have told him I loved him more. If only I’d have held him tighter.”
Ozzy then went downstairs to the gym inside their Buckinghamshire mansion and worked out for 20 minutes before suffering a heart attack.
The 73-year-old raced downstairs when she heard yelling and screamed when she saw the rock legend slumped on the floor.
“I knew instantly he’d gone. And they (medics) 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 emotionally shared.
Elsewhere in the interview, Sharon confirmed that Ozzy knew he was nearing the end because he had been “terribly ill” and his “body was failing him” after having pneumonia three times and sepsis this year, in addition to Parkinson’s disease and neck issues.
Doctors even warned him that he might not make it through his final show at Birmingham’s Villa Park on 5 July, but he did so anyway.
“The main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.’ But we just sat there, and he said, ‘I’m doing it. I want to do it, and I’m doing it,'” the former X Factor judge said. “He didn’t want to die on stage, he didn’t. But he did it his way.”
When asked how he mustered up the strength to perform, Sharon replied, “He just wanted it so bad to say thank you to everyone. And I think he honestly did know that, he, he was done. That was his time.”
She added that Ozzy, who performed from a custom-made throne, was “happier than we’d seen him in seven years” for two weeks after the homecoming show. He died 17 days after the gig.
