Sharon Osbourne has opened up about dealing with grief following the passing of her husband, Black Sabbath frontman, Ozzy Osbourne, earlier this year admitting that she "can't get rid of the ache".
The former X Factor judge also praised her three children, Kelly, Aimme and Jack, adding that they have all been "magnificent" with her.
"Grief has now become my friend," she told Piers Morgan Uncensored. "It is very weird to me, when you love someone that much and you're grieving for them, it’s what I have to live with, and I’ll get used to it. I will, I have to, you know, things move on."
She added: "It’s an ache that you wake up with and you can’t get rid of that ache. It’s like a big hole inside of you and the kids feel exactly the same way, and it’s just, what do you do? It’s inevitable that it happens to all of us.
"I would have just gone with Ozzy. I’ve done everything I wanted to do. But they’ve (Kelly, Aimee and Jack) been unbelievably, just magnificent with me, all three of them."
The rock icon, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019, performed his last gig on 5 July in a concert that also saw performances from the likes of Anthrax, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses.
Sharon said that despite Ozzy being "terribly ill" over the past year, he was determined to perform and that it had made him happier than she had seen him in the last seven years.
She said: "He knew his body was failing him. He was in so much pain, so much pain.
"He had pneumonia three times this year. He’d had sepsis… That’s what really, really destroyed him.
"(After the farewell gig), he kept looking at the papers, and he goes to me, 'I never knew so many people liked me’, but that was the way he was.
"He knew he was famous, but not to the amount that people loved him. And for two weeks, every day was sunshine for him. Really, really happy.
"Happier than we’d seen him in seven years."
Black Sabbath formed in 1968 and is widely credited with defining and popularising the sound of heavy metal. The bandmates were recently honoured with the freedom of the city of Birmingham, which recognises people’s exceptional service to the city.
Ozzy, who also had a successful solo career, found a new legion of fans when he appeared in the 2000s reality TV series The Osbournes, starring alongside his wife Sharon and two youngest children, Kelly and Jack.
Source: Press Association
