“My heart is full of so much sadness and sorrow, but also so much love and gratitude. I got 14,501 days with that man and I know that is such a blessing,” the metal legend’s youngest child wrote
Just over two weeks after the death of his father, Ozzy Osbourne, the metal legend’s youngest child, Jack Osbourne, shared a mournful tribute on Instagram. “I haven’t really wanted to post anything since the passing of my father. My heart has hurt too much,” he shared. “I’m gonna keep this short because he certainly hated long rambling speeches.”
Osbourne’s caption accompanied a video compiling clips and photos from throughout his life with Ozzy. In one, his father teaches him how to properly bow and say goodnight to an audience. In others, Ozzy bonds with Osbourne’s young daughters. The video opens with a clip of a very young Osbourne making an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, where he says it’s “very cool” to call Ozzy his dad.
“He was so many things to so many people, but I was so lucky and blessed to be apart of a very small group that got to call him ‘Dad,’” Osbourne wrote. “My heart is full of so much sadness and sorrow, but also so much love and gratitude. I got 14,501 days with that man and I know that is such a blessing.”
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Finding himself at a loss for his own words, Osbourne shared a quote from Hunter S. Thompson that he feels “best describes my father.” It reads: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body… but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a ride!’” Concluding the post, Osbourne wrote, “That was my dad. He lived and he lived his life fully. I love you dad.”
Ozzy died of a heart attack on July 22 and suffered from coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease. He was 76.
