Sharon Osbourne revealed why she couldn’t follow through with her late husband Ozzy Osbourne’s joint assisted suicide pact.
Sharon — who shares daughters Aimee, 42, Kelly, 41, and son Jack, 40, with the “Black Sabbath” frontman — said her children ultimately stopped her from honoring the promise during a recent appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
“I would have just gone with Ozzy. Oh, yeah, definitely, I’ve done everything I wanted to do,” she said, adding that her kids have been “unbelievably, just magnificent” with her.
Still emotionally shaken by the death of her husband of 40 years, Sharon shared a memory that further solidified her decision to stay.
“Years ago, when I had one of my mental breakdowns, I went into a little facility to help with my head,” the TV personality recalled to Morgan.
While there, she said she saw two young women whose lives had been deeply affected by losing a parent — a situation she feared her own children could face.
“I saw the state that these two young women were in and what it had done to their lives,” she said. “And I thought, I will never, ever, ever do that to my kids.”
The first mention of the couple’s death pact was in Sharon’s 2007 memoir “Survivor: My Story – The Next Chapter,” where she revealed they planned to go to the Swiss physician-assisted suicide organization, Dignitas, if either developed dementia.
That same year, Sharon told the Daily Mirror, “We believe 100 percent in euthanasia,” adding that their children supported the decision if she or Ozzy were to suffer from a severe brain illness such as Alzheimer’s disease.
“We gathered the kids around the kitchen table, told them our wishes, and they’ve all agreed to go with it,” she said at the time.
In 2014, the late “Crazy Train” singer told Daily Mirror that the scope had expanded to include any “life-threatening conditions.”
He added that everything would ultimately go to their children, explaining that his will left everything to Sharon if he died first.
Earlier in the conversation, Sharon also recalled Ozzy’s touching final words to her.
“And he said, ‘Kiss me,’” she remembered. “And then he said, ‘Hug me tight.’”
She added that grief has since “become [her] friend.”
“Grief is very weird to me, you know, 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.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text Crisis Text Line at 741741.
