Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalised two weeks before farewell show, family reveal
Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalised just two weeks before the Black Sabbath farewell show this July, his family has revealed in a new podcast.
Speaking for the first time since his death on The Osbournes Podcast, his wife Sharon, daughter Kelly, and son Jack reflected on the emotional lead up to his passing from a heart attack, not three weeks after the Back to the Beginning show.
It was clear that Osbourne was still battling many ailments, including complications from Parkinson’s, before the show. Now, it has been revealed had been in the hospital before the Birmingham event.
During the episode, the Osbourne family didn’t say exactly why the singer was in the hospital. However, they kept it firmly under wraps.
Sharon said the family was “terrified that people were going to find out”. As a result, they gave specific instructions, and even photographs of his visitors, to hospital staff and security to ensure the news did not leak.
Their operation was almost threatened when somebody showed up looking for John Osbourne, which is Ozzy’s real name, and claimed to be his brother.
However, Ozzy’s brother didn’t even know he had been hospitalised, so Sharon was adamant that it was a reporter. She sent security down to deal with the man.
It turned out, the family recalled, that the man was in fact a brother of John Osbourne, but a different John Osbourne staying in the same hospital. “Daddy was hysterical laughing,” Sharon said of Ozzy’s reaction.
Elsewhere on the podcast, the trio made their disdain for Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters known. In response to his heartless reaction to Ozzy’s death, Sharon called him, “Probably one of the most sick individuals I’ve come across in years.”
Sharon finished her rant about Waters by concluding that he was “A sad, irrelevant, old, miserable human being – a miserable ugly human being.”
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