JACK OSBOURNE Opens Up On The Passing OZZY: “The Price We Pay for Loving Someone Is Grief”

Jack Osbourne has shared his first in-depth reflections on the death of his father, the legendary Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away on July 22, 2025 at Harefield Hospital in West London following a heart attack. The death certificate also listed coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease as contributing conditions.

Speaking via a YouTube video on September 3, Jack detailed how he learned the news and the flood of emotions that followed. “I left [the United Kingdom] on the 13^th of July. I came home [to Los Angeles], and, yeah, my dad was great. He was in a good mood. He was happy. [On July 22] I woke up in Los Angeles to a knock on my house door at around 3:45 in the morning. Someone who’s worked for my family for probably 30 years now was knocking on my door, and when I looked through my window and I saw it was him, I just knew something bad had happened. And I was informed that my father had passed.”

Jack described his immediate reaction, saying: “I immediately — I don’t know — [I felt] just pain, just sadness and pain and just so many thoughts. You go through this of feeling sad and frustrated and angry and this part of you that’s, like, ‘I have to get there right now. I have to.’ But there was a level of like, okay, he’s not not suffering anymore. He’s not struggling.’ And that is something.

“I wish he was still here, I wish he was still with us all, but he was having a rough go. And I think people saw that at the [‘Back To The Beginning’] show [on July 5]. But no one expected it to happen as quickly as it did. And when it did, it was not anything that was on our radar. I know leading up to it, there was all sorts of stuff going around about my dad going to Switzerland and he was gonna euthanize himself and this was all planned and this was this… It was not — absolutely not. That is categorically untrue and ridiculous.

“My dad, he was so happy that he did the show and he was happy to kind of move into this next phase of his life,” Jack continued. “He wanted to, to spend more time in England. He wanted to spend more time with my kids. He wanted to spend more time with just exploring different things as much as he could.”

Rumors had circulated in the weeks prior that Ozzy was considering traveling to Switzerland for assisted dying — speculation Jack firmly denied. “That is categorically untrue and ridiculous,” he said. “My dad was so happy after the ‘Back to the Beginning’ show. He wanted to spend more time in England, with my kids, and just enjoy life.”

The July 5 Back To The Beginning concert, which reunited Black Sabbath for the final time, now stands as Ozzy‘s last public performance. Jack highlighted the profound timing of that farewell: “There’s almost a perfection to it. He got to say goodbye in such a profound way. He got to thank his fans. He got to see old friends. He got to perform. So much was accomplished before the full stop.”

Jack also reflected on their close relationship in Ozzy‘s final years: “He wasn’t just a father to me. He was my colleague. We worked together in so many capacities. I had recently moved. There was a period where I was between houses and I moved back in with him. So he was my housemate in my late thirties. And it was awesome. Me and the kids were living here. Just a friend, a text buddy, a joke cracker.

“I was so lucky,” he continued. “I had such a great relationship with him, and I’m so grateful. And I think that’s been — the overwhelming feeling has been gratitude. Deep gratitude. I’m so grateful that he was my father. And I’m sure people think, ‘Well, yeah, why wouldn’t you be?’ But the material component of it pales into comparison for the stuff that really, really made him a father. He was deeply complicated. He was funny and weird and awkward and clumsy and just hilarious and so insightful.

“I’ve said this before, but I think my father was probably one of the most deliberate people you’ve ever come across. He knew what was going on all the time, and people may have thought he was checked out, but most of the time he wanted you to think he was checked out. But he was very aware always.”

The Osbourne family has been touched by the global outpouring of grief and tributes, from flowers laid at Birmingham’s Black Sabbath Bridge to countless messages online. “We saw it all. We read all the letters. It didn’t go unnoticed,” Jack emphasized. “It meant so much and validated what we knew — that we weren’t alone in our love for him.”

He concluded with a poignant message: “It’s been a hard six weeks as a family. The price we pay for loving someone so much is grief. And I’m okay with that. Ozzy Osbourne does not end because he passed away on July 22^nd. He’s exploding through the universe, and we’re all seeing it.”