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Ozzy Osbourne praised his beloved wife through and through to the very end.
In the documentary Ozzy: No Escape from Now, the Black Sabbath singer reflects on his 43-year marriage to Sharon Osbourne. Part of the documentary takes place on July 5, the day of the Black Sabbath farewell concert, Back to the Beginning, weeks before his death.
Ozzy and Sharon’s daughter, Kelly Osbourne, says she’s feeling “very emotional.” “He wants to be able to say thank you to everybody who made him who he is, and he’s getting that moment,” says Kelly, 40.
Ozzy, who died in July at 76, sits on a throne on a platform for the concert and rises to the stage as the audience cheers and cries for the legend.
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Sharon, 72, says, “He said to me the other night, ‘I think I’m gonna cry on the last show,’ and I said, ‘Of course you are. I think there’s gonna be a lot of tears from a lot of people.’ Ozzy has gone full cycle. He came, conquered, had a brilliant career and it ended in a brilliant way.”
During his performance, Ozzy tells the massive crowd, “It’s so good to be on this f—ing stage.”
“I’m nervous. It’s my last hurrah, so it’s gonna be pretty emotional for me up there. I just hope I don’t think of Sharon when I’m up there, ‘cause then the f—ing tears will start coming. We’ve done a lot of miles together, me and my old girl,” he says, referring to Sharon.
Ozzy continues, “This is it. This is the last thing, and I’ve accepted it, you know?”
At another point in the documentary, Ozzy credits Sharon as the reason for his being around for so long. “If it wasn’t for Sharon Osbourne, I wouldn’t be here now. I would definitely not have the success I have. I wouldn’t be sober. I’d be six foot under without a shadow of a doubt,” he says.
“Because I didn’t drink any less or do any more drugs than any of them, but all the guys I used to do it with, they’re all dead, so there must be something I did right in the world. The one thing I did was have my Sharon,” says Ozzy
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Weeks after the “Paranoid” singer took the stage in Birmingham for his final bow, he died of a heart attack.
“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,” his family told PEOPLE in a statement on July 22.
“He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
The week after he died, Ozzy was honored with a funeral procession in Birmingham. The streets were lined with thousands of fans, bidding the rocker farewell.
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“Detailing his numerous corrective surgeries, escalating health issues and the progressive effects of his Parkinson’s diagnosis, Ozzy: No Escape from Now delivers a brave, unvarnished and relatable portrait of a man, highlighting how Ozzy’s ongoing chronic pain impacted his mental health and informed the music he made during this period,” a synopsis of the two-hour documentary reads.
Ozzy: No Escape from Now is available to stream Tuesday, Oct. 7 on Paramount+
