Jason Momoa is looking back at a number of the last memories he shared with Ozzy Osbourne before the rocker’s death last yr.
Appearing on the Thursday, January 15 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Momoa, 46, reflected on his experience hosting Black Sabbath’s final gig just weeks before Osbourne died. (Osbourne died on July 22, 2025 at age 76 following a battle with Parkinson’s disease. Black Sabbath’s final performance was held on July 5 in Birmingham.)
“I needed to host for them,” Momoa told Fallon. “He’s like a God to me. It was unbelievable, yeah. I loved him.”
Momoa continued, “Then, sadly he passed, like a few weeks later.”
The Aquaman star described the Black Sabbath event as “absolutely insane,” which he said was on par with the SNL50 party that also occurred in 2025, where he was capable of brush shoulders with a number of the most famous people within the industry, including Cher.
“I don’t think there can be a cooler party in the remainder of my life,” Momoa said of SNL50.
Through the TV appearance, the actor also spoke about stepping into a mosh pit together with his son Nakoa-Wolf, 17, as heavy metal band Pantera performed as a support act for Black Sabbath.
“I grabbed my son, and I used to be, like, ‘We’re going.’ And my security, my buddy who was helping me, was like, ‘No, you’re not,’” Momoa recalled. “But I grabbed my son. He’d never been in a mosh pit. And I used to be like, ‘You’re going with me, boy.’”
Jason Momoa. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
In July 2025, Osbourne died just weeks after his final onstage performance as a part of Black Sabbath. His explanation for death was cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease.
The rocker was survived by his wife, Sharon, to whom he had been married since 1982, and their children: daughters Aimee, 42, and Kelly, 41, and son Jack, 40. The singer also shared daughter Jessica, 51, and son Louis, 49, with ex-wife Thelma Riley.
“It’s with more sadness than mere words can convey that we’ve got to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” Osbourne’s family said in an announcement shared with Us Weekly on the time. “He was together with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family’s privacy right now.”
Ozzy Osbourne commemorated the ultimate concert of his life just in the future before his death. Osbourne shared a behind-the-scenes photo from Black Sabbath’s Back to the Starting show via Instagram on Monday, July 21. The image showed the surface of Osbourne’s dressing room at Aston, Birmingham, England’s Villa Park, where the concert was held on […]
In keeping with his friend Tom Morello, who worked on Black Sabbath’s Back to the Starting farewell gig, Osbourne was aware he was near the top of his life on the time of his final gig.
Morello told Chicago’s Q101 radio station in August 2025 that Osbourne was “frail” for some time within the lead as much as his death.
“The very fact he lived to play and feel that love yet another time, to do ‘Paranoid’, to do ‘Crazy Train’. If you’ve got got to go — and I wish Ozzy lived one other 30 years — when you’ve got to exit … it felt like he knew,” Morello said on the radio show.
Describing Osbourne’s death as “tragic,” Morello added, “Ozzy Osbourne had lived on the sting for such a protracted time; the very fact he lived so long as he did was a miracle.”