Sharon Osbourne tearfully detailed the secret fall her husband Ozzy Osbourne suffered that caused a ‘domino effect’ ultimately leading to his death earlier this year
Sharon Osbourne has revealed that her husband Ozzy suffered a fall that may have ultimately caused his death. She detailed the horror accident on the family podcast, in her first appearance on the show since the rock icon’s death.
Ozzy Osbourne died in July of this year following a heart attack. His family have now said that his health was getting worse for a while and a “domino effect” of ill health started the December before, after he became poorly whilst the family were on holiday.
Speaking about it on The Osbournes, their podcast, Sharon was joined by her son Jack, who has since joined I’m A Celebrity, and her daughter Kelly. This is the first time in more than a year that the whole family had recorded a podcast episode together.
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While it has been reported that Ozzy had a bad fall in 2019, which dislodged metal rolls in his back, this was the first time a second fall had been mentioned. Sharon said: “It started in December of last year, the kind of getting worse. We were supposed to go to Finland, Daddy was going to stay here [in the UK], while we went to Finland and then we were going to stay for Christmas, New Year and stay until the show.
“It was the first week of December and he wasn’t feeling great and he took a little fall and he kept saying ‘My back hurts’ and we left on the 10th and said ‘You can come with everyone a little bit later’. He went to the hospital.”
Jack then added that his father “wasn’t very good at handling pain” and kept the fall a secret. “Backing up a bit, he wasn’t very good at handling pain… but being the gentleman he was, he didn’t tell anyone he took a fall and it turned out he had a fracture in his back, in his vertebrae.”
Sharon continued to say Ozzy’s age and prior issues with drugs meant he probably wouldn’t have healed from the fracture. “Someone of his age with his medical state, the condition of his body and the amount of drugs and other issues – you know it’s not going to heal itself. It would have been a miracle.”
“It started a domino effect,” agreed Jack. He revealed that after the fall, Ozzy got pneumonia and needed surgery. the Black Sabbath frontman died in July aged 76.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Sharon admitted she had trouble sleeping since her husband died. Kelly added that the “mornings are the hardest for her” because she briefly forgets her father is dead. She continued that the “outpouring” of love from fans was a real support after he died.
“The outpouring of love has been so helpful to us. I never could have even imagined it to be as helpful as it has been to know that we’re not alone in our grief, in our sadness and that the rest of the world loved him as much as we did.”
Sharon added: “Ozzy, he wouldn’t believe it. He wouldn’t. He didn’t realise how much he was loved and that was his beauty because he never took it for granted from anyone. He never took it for granted I’m this, I’m that. He had no idea.”
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