The Osbourne family was shocked by Ozzy Osbourne’s death at 76.
“It was a surprise, of course,” Ozzy’s son Jack Osbourne said on the Wednesday, March 4, episode of the “Hate to Break It to Ya” podcast. “Obviously, everyone knew he was sick … but we weren’t expecting it to be as quick because it was, ?”
Ozzy, who confirmed his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in 2020, died in July 2025 weeks after headlining a farewell concert in London together with his Black Sabbath bandmates.
“I just think he was done,” Jack, 40, speculated on Wednesday’s episode. “I’d just left England to return home after the show. I went to the ‘Back to the Starting’ gig with the family and all of us hung around England for just a few weeks. [Then,] I had to return back with [my] kids.”
Jack continued, “Right before I left, I used to be putting [my dad] to bed and he was brushing his teeth or whatever. He was himself within the mirror, and he goes, ‘I feel I’m going to chop my hair off.’ He’s, like, ‘I’ve retired. I’m not a rockstar anymore.’”
In line with Jack, Ozzy’s comments about chopping off his signature mane potentially insinuated that “he was done” and “OK together with his journey.” (Ozzy just once shaved off his hair within the Eighties, which Jack claimed was meant to “piss” his mom, Sharon Osbourne, off.)
“I do think we as people do have a alternative to a level,” Jack acknowledged of his dad’s death. “I feel if you happen to’re sick and your body’s primed and in a spot where it’s, like, ‘Hey, you bought a alternative here.’ On a deep, spiritual level, I do think either consciously or subconsciously you’re, like, ‘OK, I’m able to move on.’”
He added, “You see it on a regular basis with elderly couples where one will pass after which, two days later, the superbly healthy partner will pass just ‘cause they’re, like, ‘No, I don’t need to be here.’”
Sharon Osbourne still remembers her final conversation with husband Ozzy Osbourne ahead of his death at 76. “He told me that he was having dreams the last week of his life. He was seeing those who he never knew,” Sharon, 73, said on the Wednesday, December 10, episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored. “I said, ‘Well, […]
Ozzy died 17 days after the ultimate Black Sabbath gig.
“It’s with more sadness than mere words can convey that now we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” his family told Us Weekly in a July 2025 statement. “He was together with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy presently.”
Ozzy is survived by wife Sharon, 73, his six children and multiple grandchildren. (Ozzy and Sharon were parents of three, and the rocker also shared three older kids with Thelma Riley.)
“I woke up in Los Angeles to a knock at my house door, at around 3:45 within the morning,” Jack recalled in a September 2025 video uploaded via YouTube. “Someone who’s worked for my family for probably 30 years now was knocking on my door. Once I looked through my window and saw it was him, I just knew something bad had happened.”
He concluded, “I used to be informed that my father had passed. Immediately, I don’t know … just pain. Sadness and pain. So many thoughts. You undergo this sense [of] sadness and frustration and anger, but there was a level of like, OK, he’s not suffering anymore, he’s not struggling, and that’s something.”