Sharon Osbourne was both aware of and largely unbothered by the indiscretions of her late husband, Ozzy Osbourne — with one notable exception.
Sharon made the revelation during a recent appearance on the Piers Morgan Uncensored talk show, when she was talking about how her upbringing with her father made her “so used to extreme behavior,” which prompted Morgan to ask her: “Did that make it easier just generally when Ozzy would fall off the rails, be it with booze or whatever, or women, whatever?”
He continued, “Did it make it easier to know that you’d been around a lot of mercurial people, especially performers — they get hooked on adrenaline, life in the fast lane, the party stuff, the image, the brand, being a rock star. Is it easier to navigate when you know what you’ve got?”
“Oh, yeah,” Sharon responded. “Yeah. And you’ve got to realize that — I know it’s a whole thing with a lot of women, you know, if you go with somebody else, that’s it, it’s over, and we’re all so different — but it didn’t faze me.”
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne attend the 23rd Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Party.
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She continued, “Not until it was, you know, a couple of times, it was like, ‘I don’t like the fact you brought them to my house.’ And it is my f—ing house. I would go to him, ‘I furnished it!’ That I didn’t like.”
Overall, Sharon explained, “But, it never fazed me because I know what he’s like, and it means nothing. Means nothing.”
The Grammy winner died at 76 on July 22 after suffering a heart attack amid health issues including Parkinson’s disease. Elsewhere in Sharon’s appearance on Morgan’s show, which was her first interview since her husband’s death, she looked back on their final moments together, including their last conversation the night before he died.
“He was up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was, like, 4:30 a.m., and he said, ‘Wake up,'” Sharon recalled. “I said, ‘I’m already bloody awake, you’ve woken me up.'”
Tearing up, she then revealed Ozzy’s sweet final words to her: “Kiss me. Hug me tight.”
The former talk show host was married to the Black Sabbath rocker for more than four decades. Sharon also served as his manager, and is the mother of three of his adult children: Aimee, Kelly, and Jack. From his previous marriage to Thelma Riley, Ozzy had three other children — Jessica, Louis, and Elliot.