Ozzy Osbourne‘s daughter Kelly furiously hit back at claims he had a ‘suicide pact’ with wife Sharon just days before his death aged 76.
The Black Sabbath icon, 76, died ‘surrounded by love’ on Tuesday, a statement from his family said – less than three weeks after he had performed from a throne on stage at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.
In a Instagram story on July 11, Kelly, 40, lambasted an AI-generated video portraying her father saying he was ‘going to die.’
She wrote: ‘There’s this video going around on social media, and it’s supposed to be my dad, but it’s AI. It has a voice like my dad’s David Attenborough or something. And it starts out saying, “I don’t need a doctor to tell me that I’m going to die. I know I’m going to die.”
‘What the f**k is wrong with you people? Why would you spend your time making a video like this?”
‘He’s not dying. Yes, he has Parkinson’s, and yes, his mobility is completely different than it used to be, but he’s not dying. What is wrong with you?
Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Kelly furiously hit back at claims he had a ‘suicide pact’ with wife Sharon just days before his death aged 76 – pictured 2020
The Black Sabbath icon, 76, died ‘surrounded by love’ on Tuesday, a statement from his family said – less than three weeks after he had performed from a throne on stage at Villa Park in Birmingham – pictured
She said of the suicide pact claim: ‘That was bulls**t my mom said to get attention one time. And my dad’s not dying. Stop.’
Sharon first made the euthanasia claim in 2017, claiming the couple of four decades had ‘come to the same decision’ to travel to Switzerland if they suffered a life limiting illness.
She told The Mirror: ‘Ozzy and I have absolutely come to the same decision. We believe 100 percent in euthanasia so have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains. If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer’s, that’s it—we’d be off.
‘I saw my father suffer from the day he came back into my life in 2002 to the day he died in July, There’s no way I could go through what he did, or put my kids through that.’
Back in 2023 on The Osbournes podcast, Sharon stated that euthanasia was ‘still a plan’ for both herself and the Crazy Train hitmaker and questioned, ‘Do you think that we’re gonna suffer?’
The topic had been brought up separate times in the past, with Ozzy saying in 2014 that physician-assisted suicide would be an option if they had any ‘life-threatening condition.’
In a statement, his family said tonight: ‘It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love.’
The rocker was able to bid an emotional farewell to his fans on stage this month as he reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward for the first time since 2005.
Sharon first made the euthanasia claim in 2017, claiming the couple of four decades had ‘come to the same decision’ to travel to Switzerland if they suffered a life limiting illness – Pictured: The pair at the Grammy Awards in January 2020
She said of the suicide pact claim: ‘That was bulls**t my mom said to get attention one time. And my dad’s not dying. Stop’
Sharon and Ozzy seen with son Jack in 2024 in Ohio
‘You’ve no idea how I feel – thank you from the bottom of my heart,’ Osbourne told the crowd in his final speech.
The star was a titan of music who somehow survived controversies that would end the careers of many others, and weathered health problems that would leave most of us on our backs.
Whether it was biting the head off both a bat and a dove, snorting a line of ants or urinating on a US war memorial while wearing one of his wife Sharon’s dresses, Osbourne was defined by his antics both on and off stage.
His death ends the final chapter of a life that was marked by both dizzying success and fame but also scandal, abuse and even prison time.
The singer, who sold more than 100 million records, will forever be synonymous with the heavy metal band he formed in his home city of Birmingham with Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler in 1969.
With hits that included Iron Man, War Pigs and Paranoid, Black Sabbath’s pushing of occult themes proved both hugely popular and controversial, with a future pope even condemning Osbourne for his ‘subliminal satanic influence’.
Osbourne’s most infamous moment came when he bit the head off a bat that had been thrown on stage during a solo performance. He later claimed he thought it was made of rubber.
The singer, who sold more than 100million records, will forever be synonymous with the heavy metal band he formed in his home city of Birmingham with Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler in 1969. Above: Osbourne (far right) with Butler (left), Iommi (second from left) and Ward in the 1970s
Osbourne and Sharon and their children Aimee, Kelly and Jack, are pictured at their US home in 1987. He and Sharon married in 1982
Osbourne forged a hugely successful solo career after being thrown out of his band in 1979 due to his drug-fuelled antics, with hits that included Crazy Train and Hellraiser.
But his hellraising off stage continued. In 1989 he attempted to kill Sharon while high on drugs, and seven years before that he urinated on the treasured Alamo Cenotaph in Texas, an act that saw him banned from San Antonio for a decade.
He was also injured in a quad bike crash at his UK home in 2003, an episode that had a serious impact on his fragile health.
Yet there was also redemption for the troubled singer, who relaunched himself as a reality tv star in The Osbournes in the early 2000s, after getting clean from drink and drugs with the help of Sharon.
It saw two of his and Sharon’s children, Kelly and Jack, become stars in their own right, whilst their other daughter Aimee declined to appear.
Prior to his union with Sharon, Osbourne had been married to first wife Thelma Riley for 11 years, from 1971 until 1982.
The pair had children Jessica and Louis together, whilst Osbourne also adopted Thelma’s son Elliot.
Osbourne later said that his first marriage had been a mistake because of his constant touring and drug abuse.
He also admitted to being ‘abusive’ to Thelma. He said later: ‘I was totally abusive to my first wife. Physical abuse, mental abuse – you name it, I did it.
‘I hit her big time and I was a complete idiot.’
