Ozzy Osbourne was told by doctor that farewell show would kill him, Sharon Osbourne reveals
Sharon Osbourne has revealed that a doctor warned Ozzy Osbourne that his final show may kill him.
Just weeks before his death, Osbourne said his farewell at Villa Park for Back to the Beginning. During the show, which raised millions for charity, he performed a solo set and reunited with the original Black Sabbath line-up for the first time in over 20 years.
Later that month, Osbourne, who would have turned 77 last week, tragically died on July 22nd at their family home in Buckinghamshire, England.
His cause of death was later ruled to be a heart attack, but the final chapter of his life was plagued with health struggles, including Parkinson’s.
Now, during a new interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sharon has reflected on Ozzy’s grand last hurrah in his hometown.
When Morgan asked Osbourne whether she felt that her late husband felt, subconsciously, he was hanging on for his farewell show, she replied, “Very much so, because he’d been so ill this year. Terribly, terribly ill.”
Sharon continued, “When we came to England, and we were meeting with new doctors here and a new medical team for him, the main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.'”
Despite the strong warning from the medical professional, the Black Sabbath singer was determined to go ahead and give his career a storybook ending.
Sharon recalled, “We just sat there, and he said, ‘I’m doing it. I want to do it, and I’m doing it.”
The music manager also shared of her late husband’s mindset going into Back to the Beginning, “He knew. His body was failing him, he was in so much pain… so much pain.”
Osbourne then revealed the full extent of Ozzy’s health struggles in 2025 during the months leading up to his final performance, sharing, “He had pneumonia three times this year, he had sepsis, and that’s what really destroyed him. I mean, he was on these shots of antibiotics, and it used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in, and he had that twice a day. It kills everything in you, the good, the bad, everything, (it was) so much antibiotics. He just couldn’t get over that.”
In his memoir, Last Rites, which was published posthumously in October, Osbourne wrote of the legendary concert, “Suddenly I was looking out over 42,000 faces, with another 5.8 million watching online. That was when the emotion really hit me. I’d never really taken it on board that so many people liked me — or even knew who I was. It was overwhelming, man, it really was.”
He also emotionally wrote of his perfect final show, “Forty or fifty thousand voices singing back your words. All along, that’s what I was chasing. It was the best drug I ever took.”
During the same new interview, Sharon also shared details of her heartbreaking final conversation with Ozzy on the day of his death.
She recalled, “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 bloody awake, you’ve woken me up’. And he said, ‘Kiss me’. And then he said, ‘Hug me tight’.”
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