Kelly Osbourne has given the most open interview of her life, and at the center of it is a conversation she had with her father three days before he died. Ozzy sat her down, told her he knew he wasn’t going to be around forever, and said something she’s now repeated in public for the first time. She also revealed that in the months after losing him she fell apart completely — and that she is now eight months sober.
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What Ozzy told her
Speaking to Paul C. Brunson on the We Need to Talk podcast, Kelly said her father knew he was going to die.
About three days before his death on July 22, 2025, he sat her down for a talk.
Her account of what he said:
“I need you to know something… No matter what happens in this life, you can live the rest of your life knowing that there was one man on this planet that truly loved you for every single thing that you are. And that man is me.”
He reminded her he wasn’t going to be alive forever. And — this is the part that tells you he’d thought about it — he acknowledged that she had struggled with feeling loved.
She cried through the conversation. He died three days later.
Her verdict on it now: everything he told her would happen has happened. Every warning, every person he told her to stay away from, all of it.
That’s not a man saying goodbye. That’s a man doing one last piece of work for his daughter, knowing he had days left, and making sure the one thing she’d need to hear for the rest of her life was said out loud while he could still say it.
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He knew
The other thing Kelly confirmed is the part fans have wondered about since July 2025.
He knew.
She praised her mother Sharon for putting together Back To The Beginning, the Black Sabbath farewell concert at Villa Park that took place seventeen days before he died.
Her words: her mum allowed him to die the happiest she’d ever seen him. All he wanted before he left this planet was one last show — one more chance to let his fans know how grateful he was for the life they’d allowed him to have, and how much he loved them. And to say goodbye.
And then the detail that recontextualises that entire evening.
She knew he was ready to die. Which is why he sang despite his doctors warning him it would probably kill him.
He did it anyway.
Kelly described watching him struggle for so long — the Parkinson’s, the injuries from years before — as insufferable. He was 76.
Anyone who watched that Villa Park footage and felt something they couldn’t name — that’s what it was. Everyone on that stage and most of the people in that stadium understood what they were watching, and he went out and did it regardless.
What happened to her afterwards
This is the part that takes some courage to say out loud, and she says it without any hedging at all.
Her opening line on it is remarkable: losing her father taught her that there is an honour in grief, because it meant she had loved, and was capable of loving, someone so much that she lost her mind.
Then the plain version. She was a shell of herself. She couldn’t speak, couldn’t eat, couldn’t do anything. Empty, broken in every way a human can be broken, and completely unable to take care of herself.
“I was at ground zero. I started drinking again. I lost my mind. I couldn’t handle it.”
And then, in the same breath:
“I can honestly say today that I’m eight months sober and I have the most incredible people around me.”
Eight months. Counted, and said in public on a podcast, which is not a small thing to do.
She’s also been clear-eyed about what it cost her socially. She closed her circle, and she lost a lot of friends — because, as she put it, people don’t like sadness. They expected her to be over it.
“I’ll never be over it. I’ll never ever be over it.”
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The BRIT Awards, and what people did
Worth covering because she raised it, and because what happened was genuinely indefensible.
In the middle of all of that, Kelly joined Sharon on stage at the BRIT Awards to accept a lifetime achievement award for Ozzy. It should have been a night about her father.
Instead the internet spent it commenting on how she looked.
Her account is difficult to read. She says she didn’t know what she looked like — she didn’t see it, she was so unwell that she didn’t see it. Then she saw the pictures.
And then the observation that should stop anyone who joined in:
“If I had cancer, people would be like, ‘You look great, bravo. How brave of you.’ But no, what I was suffering from was mental health issues and grief. And I got literally assassinated over something that should’ve been about my dad and his legacy.”
She said it makes her sad to see the state of the world — that people could be so cruel, and how does that make them feel good.
She also said, fairly, that it did one useful thing: it let her see what other people were seeing, and it was a wake-up call. But there was a great deal more going on in her life that she can’t talk about.
I’d add one thing to that as someone who’s worked in this industry a long time. The people who type that stuff have no idea what’s happening in the life of the person they’re typing about, and they never stop to wonder. She was burying her father. That was the whole story, and it was available to anyone who thought for two seconds.
Where she is now
Eight months sober. A closed circle. And a stated intention to stop letting other people define her.
On what she’s learned about herself: she’s good enough on her own. She doesn’t need to just be Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter. She’s her own person, she can do it alone, and she never relied on her parents for that.
And on the narrative: she’s sick of everyone else trying to control the story of who she is. She gets to say who she is. And if she gets it wrong, she’ll own it and move on.
She’s also making a three-part documentary about her grief and her mental health in the wake of Ozzy’s death — which, given how openly she’s talking about all of this already, is likely to be a considerably more useful piece of work than most celebrity documentaries.
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The thing worth sitting with
Ozzy Osbourne spent fifty-odd years being the most cartooned man in rock music. The bat, the ants, the reality show, the mumbling, the myth. Most of the stories people tell about him are about chaos.
And in the last week of his life, knowing exactly what was coming, what he did was sit his daughter down and make sure she knew somebody had loved her completely.
He’d already done the show. He’d already said goodbye to the band and to the fans, on a stage in Birmingham, against medical advice, because he wanted to. That was the public work.
Then he did the private work. Three days out. One conversation. One sentence she’ll carry for the rest of her life.
That’s not the Prince of Darkness. That’s a dad.
TL;DR
- Kelly Osbourne, speaking on the We Need to Talk podcast with Paul C. Brunson, has revealed a conversation she had with Ozzy roughly three days before his death on July 22, 2025.
- What he told her: that no matter what happened in her life, she could live the rest of it knowing there was one man on the planet who truly loved her for every single thing she is — and that man was him.
- He knew he was going to die, according to Kelly, and acknowledged in that conversation that she had struggled with feeling loved.
- She credits Sharon with organising Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning concert seventeen days before his death, saying it allowed him to die the happiest she’d ever seen him.
- He performed despite doctors warning him it would likely kill him — Kelly says she knew he was ready.
- She fell apart afterwards, describing herself as a shell of herself and unable to take care of herself, and said she started drinking again.
- She is now eight months sober, with a closed circle of people around her.
- On the BRIT Awards body shaming: she noted that if she’d had cancer people would have called her brave, but because she was suffering from grief and mental health issues she was torn apart instead.
- She is making a three-part documentary about her grief and mental health.
FAQ
What did Ozzy Osbourne say to Kelly before he died?
According to Kelly, roughly three days before his death he sat her down and said: “I need you to know something… No matter what happens in this life, you can live the rest of your life knowing that there was one man on this planet that truly loved you for every single thing that you are. And that man is me.” She has said he knew he was going to die, and that he acknowledged her struggles with feeling loved during the same conversation.
When did Ozzy Osbourne die?
July 22, 2025. He was 76. His death came seventeen days after Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning farewell concert at Villa Park in Birmingham.
Is Kelly Osbourne sober?
Yes. Speaking on the We Need to Talk podcast in September 2026, she said she is eight months sober, having started drinking again in the period after her father’s death.
Did Ozzy know he was dying?
Kelly believes he did. She has said he prepared her for it, warned her about specific things and people in advance, and that he performed at Back To The Beginning despite doctors cautioning him that doing so would likely kill him — because he wanted one last show with his fans.
What did Kelly Osbourne say about the BRIT Awards criticism?
She said she had been too unwell to register how she looked at the time, and that the reaction was cruel. Her comparison was that had she been visibly ill from cancer, people would have praised her as brave — but because she was dealing with grief and mental health issues, she was “assassinated” during what should have been a night about her father’s legacy.
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Three days out, knowing exactly what was coming, and what he chose to do was make sure his daughter knew. Rest easy, Ozzy. And keep it locked on the Loaded Radio stream — follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.
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