Sharon Osbourne has spoken about the difficult year following her husband Ozzy Osbourne’s death, revealing legal battles with businesspeople alongside her grief in comments shared via Rolling Stone.
Osbourne was asked how she had been holding up in the past year. Her response touched on both the personal loss and the complications that emerged after Ozzy’s death.
Question: “How have you been holding up in the past year?”
“It’s been very, very tough,” Sharon Osbourne said. “It’s something in life that everyone has to go through, grief, but I’ve had a lot of other things going on — not just grief — but things that have come out about bad advice being handled by people that were not what I thought.”
“It’s amazing that when somebody passes, you see all the bad things that were going on around that person. I’m in a lot of litigation right now with a lot of businesspeople, and it’s just ugly. Ugly.”
Despite the difficulties, Osbourne described feeling close to her late husband through personal items and memories. “He ain’t left me for a minute. I go to sleep wearing his T-shirts. I wake up wearing his glasses. I’m surrounded by him always. That’s why there’s nothing to be sad. I was blessed to have him in my life, and nothing is forever. It’ll be my time soon, and it’s the circle. That’s what happens with everyone. It was just my time to lose the love of my life, but you go on.”
She reflected on Ozzy’s legacy and the people he touched during his career. “But look at what I had, what I still have. Look at what he left everyone, a great body of work, that f*cking smile of his. I always say you didn’t have to like Ozzy’s music to like Ozzy. You just liked him. Look at the amount of musicians that he has worked with; there’s three guys that never liked him, and that’s a f*cking great record to have. When you think of everybody’s life who he touched as a musician, and only three of them didn’t like him, it’s like, f*cking hell, when I go, there’s going to be fucking thousands. But three guys? I can f*cking live with that.”
Osbourne’s comments came as she discussed her life after the Black Sabbath frontman’s passing. Her remarks show how she has been managing both the emotional weight of her loss and unexpected legal matters that followed.
Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, at the age of 76, from a heart attack. He had faced significant health challenges before his death, including a spinal injury sustained in 2019 and a Parkinson disease diagnosis in 2020. The rock legend’s final performance took place on July 5, 2025, in Birmingham, England, where he appeared with Black Sabbath for the first time in 20 years with the original lineup.
The Birmingham show at Villa Park was attended by 42,000 people in person, with another 3 million watching the livestream. This historic reunion marked a major moment in Osbourne’s career as the lead vocalist of Black Sabbath, the pioneering heavy metal band he co-founded in 1968. Over his lifetime, Osbourne sold more than 100 million albums through his solo work and his time with Sabbath.
Osbourne’s influence on rock music was recognized through multiple honors. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame once with Black Sabbath in 2006 and again as a solo artist in 2024. The final performance was captured for a concert film titled “Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning,” which was released in movie theaters beginning October 28, featuring appearances by guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward.
Sharon’s legal challenges following Ozzy’s death have included disputes over his estate management. More than a year after his death, she filed papers with the British High Court to remove Colin Newman, Ozzy’s longtime accountant, as the executor of his will. These actions reflect the complications Sharon mentioned in her recent interview about the difficult period following her husband’s passing.
