Roger Waters has responded to Sharon Osbourne for the first time since their feud began thirteen months ago, and he did it in five words. Speaking exclusively to Far Out Magazine on September 3, the Pink Floyd co-founder said: “Sharon Osbourne is best ignored. R.” The response came after Osbourne left a comment on one of the outlet’s Instagram posts telling Waters to jump in the water with a brick tied around his neck. It is the first thing Waters has said about her directly in a dispute that has now produced a podcast tirade, a diss T-shirt, and a box of faeces she decided against posting.
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What happened this week
On August 31, Far Out Magazine posted on Instagram about Waters becoming an executive producer on an upcoming documentary called Freedom Theater.
Osbourne liked the post. Then she commented on it.
Her comment, per Far Out: “Jump in the water please with a brick tied around your neck.”
Far Out contacted Waters and his representatives, and on September 3 received a reply directly from the musician:
“Sharon Osbourne is best ignored. R.”
That’s the whole statement. Five words and an initial.
Both quotes are Far Out’s exclusive reporting — the comment appeared on their own post, and Waters responded to them directly. Neither has been independently corroborated at the time of writing.
Neither party has said anything further.
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Why five words is the right answer
Worth pausing on, because the brevity is the point.
Waters is not a man historically known for restraint. He is one of the most argumentative figures in rock — a man who has spent five decades feuding with his own bandmates, in public, at length, in interviews that run for hours. If he wanted to escalate this, he has the appetite and the vocabulary.
He gave it five words instead.
“Best ignored” does something a longer statement couldn’t: it declines the fight while making clear he considers himself above it. Which will infuriate the other side considerably more than a paragraph would have.
And the lowercase “R” sign-off is very Roger Waters. It’s the kind of thing you write when you want the response to look like it cost you nothing.
How this started
The feud is thirteen months old and it began with Waters, not Osbourne.
August 2025. Weeks after Ozzy Osbourne’s death on July 22 at the age of 76, Waters appeared on the YouTube channel The Independent Ink. During a broader conversation about how pop-culture figures can distract from political issues, he brought Ozzy up unprompted.
He said Ozzy had been all over television for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense. He said he had no idea about the music and couldn’t give a damn. He said he didn’t care about Black Sabbath, never did, and had no interest in biting the heads off chickens or whatever they do.
For context: Ozzy had died three weeks earlier, after a farewell show in Birmingham that reunited the original Black Sabbath lineup in front of a global audience.
The response was immediate. Jack Osbourne posted publicly, telling Waters exactly where to go and adding that his father had always thought Waters was a certain word — thanks for proving him right.
On The Osbournes podcast, Sharon called Waters a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable, ugly human being. In a separate episode she said he has no charisma, looks like Frankenstein, is sick in the head, isn’t relevant, is boring, has no stage presence, is envious, and is just a bad seed.
December 2025. Ozzy’s official merch store released a limited-edition T-shirt, available for 48 hours at $41. The front read “OZZY RULES” spray-painted over Waters’ name. The back showed Ozzy urinating on the artwork from Waters’ The Wall: Live In Berlin, with the words “Another Prick in the Wall.”
Also December 2025. On Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sharon revealed she had seriously considered mailing Waters a box of her own faeces. She decided against it — her reasoning being that it would be a waste, because he’s insignificant.
January 2026. Waters was asked about the whole thing and said he had no regrets about any of it.
August 31, 2026. The Instagram comment.
September 3, 2026. Five words.
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The part that explains everything
There’s a detail that makes this less of a celebrity spat than it looks, and it’s the thing worth holding onto.
Sharon Osbourne was married to Ozzy for over four decades and managed his career for most of them. He died in July 2025. Three weeks later, a man who had never worked with him, never toured with him and by his own admission never listened to his music went on a podcast and called his life’s work idiocy and nonsense.
Everything since — the podcast, the T-shirt, the box she didn’t send, the comment on Instagram — comes from that.
None of which makes the comment defensible. Telling someone to drown themselves is not a thing you can file under grief, and Waters is under no obligation to absorb it.
But it does explain why a woman who has spent fifty years in the music industry, and who is not remotely a stranger to saying exactly what she thinks, has spent thirteen months unable to let this one go.
She was also publicly defending Marilyn Manson earlier this week, which suggests the current mode is broadly unfiltered.
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Two men who never had anything to do with each other
The strangest thing about this feud is that there was never any overlap to fall out over.
Waters and Ozzy occupied opposite ends of British rock. Pink Floyd built cerebral, politically conscious concept albums for people who read the sleeve notes. Black Sabbath invented heavy metal in a Birmingham factory town and built a career on volume, riffs and theatre.
They never toured together. They never collaborated. They barely shared an audience.
Ozzy went on to a solo career that ran nearly five decades, outlasting every guitarist who passed through it and turning him into one of the most recognisable figures the genre ever produced. Waters built The Wall and has spent the years since on political activism and increasingly acrimonious relations with his former bandmates.
Two enormous careers, no intersection — until one man decided to say something about the other, three weeks after he died.
TL;DR
- What’s new: Roger Waters responded to Sharon Osbourne for the first time, telling Far Out Magazine on September 3: “Sharon Osbourne is best ignored. R.”
- What prompted it: Osbourne commented on a Far Out Instagram post about Waters producing a documentary, telling him to jump in the water with a brick tied around his neck.
- How it started: in August 2025, weeks after Ozzy’s death, Waters said on The Independent Ink that Ozzy was “all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense” and that he never cared about Black Sabbath.
- What followed: Jack Osbourne posted publicly against Waters, Sharon called him “sad, irrelevant, old, miserable” on The Osbournes podcast, and Ozzy’s estate released an “Another Prick in the Wall” T-shirt in December 2025.
- The escalation: Sharon told Piers Morgan she had considered mailing Waters a box of her own faeces, deciding against it because he’s “insignificant.”
- Waters’ position: he said in January 2026 that he has no regrets about the original comments.
- Both new quotes are Far Out exclusives, not yet independently corroborated. Neither party has commented further.
FAQ
What did Roger Waters say about Sharon Osbourne?
Responding to Far Out Magazine on September 3, 2026, he said: “Sharon Osbourne is best ignored. R.” It was his first direct comment about her since their public feud began in August 2025.
What did Sharon Osbourne say about Roger Waters?
On August 31, 2026 she commented on a Far Out Magazine Instagram post about Waters, writing: “Jump in the water please with a brick tied around your neck.” She has previously called him “a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable, ugly human being” on The Osbournes podcast and said she considered mailing him a box of faeces.
Why are Roger Waters and Sharon Osbourne feuding?
It began in August 2025, weeks after Ozzy Osbourne’s death, when Waters said on The Independent Ink podcast that Ozzy had been “all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense” and that he had never cared about Black Sabbath’s music. The Osbourne family responded publicly and the dispute has continued since.
What is the “Another Prick in the Wall” shirt?
A limited-edition T-shirt released via Ozzy Osbourne’s official merch store in December 2025, available for 48 hours at $41. The front featured “OZZY RULES” over Roger Waters’ name; the back showed Ozzy urinating on the artwork from Waters’ The Wall: Live In Berlin, captioned “Another Prick in the Wall.”
Has Roger Waters apologised for his Ozzy Osbourne comments?
No. In a January 2026 interview he said he had no regrets about the remarks.
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