Kelly Osbourne Marks 8 Months Sober, Shares Ozzy's Final Words: "One Man Truly Loved You"

Kelly Osbourne is opening up about the hardest year of her life. On Paul C. Brunson’s“We Need to Talk”podcast, she shared that she relapsed on alcohol after her father, Ozzy Osbourne, died in July 2025 at age 76. She described herself as a shell of who she was, saying the weight of the loss was more than she could handle. Today she’s eight months sober, and she’s closed her circle after losing friends who expected her to move on faster than her heart would allow.

Three days before he passed, Ozzy sat his daughter down for a conversation she’ll carry forever. He told her that no matter what happened in this life, she could live the rest of it knowing one man on this planet truly loved her for every single thing she is, and that man was him. Ozzy died of a heart attack and cardiac arrest, with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease as contributing factors. Doctors had warned him that performing his final Black Sabbath show in Birmingham could kill him. He did it anyway, to thank his fans and say goodbye. He passed two weeks later.

This story touches something a lot of families understand: grief that doesn’t follow a schedule, and the pull of old habits when the pain gets loud. Kelly says she’ll never be over losing her dad, and honestly, that’s a truth many of us know well. Healing isn’t a finish line. It’s something you carry and tend to, one day at a time.

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