Kelly Osbourne has opened up about the “endless ache” of grief – one year on from her father Ozzy‘s death.
The Prince Of Darkness passed away on July 22, 2025, aged 76 – just 17 days after he played his final-ever live show as a soloist and with Black Sabbath at Birmingham’s Villa Park. His death certificate confirmed his cause of death to be a heart attack, while also citing coronary heart disease and Parkinson’s. The document listed his occupation as “Songwriter, Performer and Rock Legend”.
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To mark the first anniversary of the late icon’s death, his daughter Kelly took to Instagram to share a post titled ‘What I’ve come to know about grief in the last year!’.
“I don’t just mourn the father I lost. I mourn the soul I was before death taught my heart its own name,” she began.
“There is a grief that steals more than the person you love. It quietly takes the light from your laughter, the innocence from your hope, and the stranger you become is someone you’ll spend a lifetime trying to recognise.
“People think grief is missing someone who is gone, but the deepest sorrow is waking each day longing for the version of yourself who died with them. Grief is a language no one truly speaks until life forces it upon them.
“It cannot be explained, borrowed, or imagined. You only understand its endless ache when you’ve stood in the unbearable silence, carrying a love that has nowhere left to go.”
Kelly continued: “I miss who I was before my daddy died. Before my heart became a home for absence. Before every memory became both a blessing and a wound. Some losses don’t simply break you. They divide your life into two people. The one you were before, and the one left behind.
“And perhaps that is grief’s cruellest truth. Not that death takes the ones we love, but that it leaves us living as ghosts of the people we used to be.”
Kelly’s message also coincides with the first-ever official ‘Ozzy Day’, which is taking place in the Black Sabbath star’s hometown of Birmingham today. The celebrations will include a free “city centre programme of music, memories and tributes” to Osbourne, while nodding to his “life, legacy and Birmingham roots”.
Elsewhere, his son Jack has urged fans to share stories about Ozzy on the first anniversary of his death. “That’s what I want,” he said. “I want to fill the entire day of July 22 with just awesome Ozzy stories.”
Kelly said last summer that she would “not be OK for a while” in the wake of Ozzy’s passing. “Grief is a strange thing,” she wrote. “It sneaks up on you in waves.” In the autumn, she opened up about how she’d found her “smile again”.
This February, Kelly joined her mother Sharon to accept Ozzy’s posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the BRITs 2026 in Manchester. The pair previously picked up the Birmingham Lord Mayor’s Award on Ozzy’s behalf, on what would have been his 77th birthday last December.
Sharon shared a tribute to her late husband on their first wedding anniversary since his death earlier this month. “I miss your hand in mine, but I carry your love with me every step of the way,” she wrote. “Forever my husband. Forever my heart.”
Previously, she responded to those who were calling an upcoming AI avatar of Ozzy a “cash grab” – telling them that she “doesn’t need your fucking money”. Jack commented on the project, too, claiming that his father “would be into this”. He explained: “It’s gonna be so tasteful what we’re doing. It’s not gonna be fucking lame.”
In other news, Jack has confirmed that a biopic about his parents Ozzy and Sharon is “absolutely” happening, and is slated for a 2028 release. He shared earlier this year that a “phenomenal” lead actor was attached.
