Kelly Osbourne Opens Up About Relapse, Grief, and the Last Words Ozzy Told Her

Kelly Osbourne is sharing the kind of honesty that doesn’t come easy. On the“We Need to Talk”podcast, she revealed that after her father Ozzy Osbourne died in July 2025, she relapsed on alcohol. She described being unable to eat or speak, saying she hit what she calls ground zero. It’s a raw picture of what grief can do, even to someone who’s spent years working on their recovery.

Today, at 41, Kelly says she’s eight months sober. She’s also had to make peace with losing friends who expected her to move past her father’s death faster than she could. If you’ve ever lost a parent, you know there’s no timeline for that kind of hurt. You carry it with you, and you learn to live around it.

She also shared something beautiful. In her last conversation with Ozzy, just three days before he passed, he told her that she would always know one man truly loved her. That’s the kind of thing a daughter holds onto for the rest of her life. What’s the one piece of wisdom a parent or grandparent left with you that you’ll never forget?