(WJW) — Sharon Osbourne sat down for an interview for the first time since her iconic rock ‘n’ roll husband died in July.
She tearfully told Piers Morgan that Ozzy Osbourne knew it was time, and she revealed his final words to her.
On his final day, he had been in and out of the bathroom during the night, and at one point he asked her to wake up.
“I said, ‘I’m already bloody awake, you’ve woken me up,'” Sharon explained on a “Piers Morgan Uncensored” episode released Wednesday.
“And he said, ‘Kiss me,'” she recalled. “And then he said, ‘Hug me tight.'”
Sometime later, he went downstairs to work out, and that’s where he had a medical event leading to his death. He never spoke to Sharon again.
The Black Sabbath frontman died on July 22. He was 76 years old.
“If only I’d have told him I loved him more. If only I’d have held him tighter,” Sharon Osbourne, 73, told Morgan.
Osbourne and her children were thrust into the spotlight when she appeared in the family’s reality show, “The Osbournes,” in the early 2000s.
In recent years, Ozzy had announced various health issues, including Parkinson’s disease.
He was remembered in Birmingham, England, with a funeral procession on July 30.
Ozzy, who had done a farewell concert in Birmingham just two weeks before his death – reportedly against doctors’ orders – told Sharon he was coming to peace with death and that his dreams were telling him things.
“He was seeing people that he never knew,” Sharon told Morgan.
“I said, ‘Well, what kind of people?’ He goes, ‘All different people. And I just keep walking and walking, and I’m seeing all these different people every night, and I go back there and I’m looking at these people, and they’re looking at me, and nobody’s talking,’” she said in the interview. “And he knew. He was ready.”
Following his farewell concert, which Sharon said he knew “would kill him,” Sharon said Ozzy was “like sunshine.” She said he was happier than they’d seen him in years.