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Sharon Osbourne shared Ozzy Osbourne's final words, reflecting on their last moments together before his death in July
According to Sharon, Ozzy had vivid dreams and spoke openly about feeling at peace in the days leading up to his passing
He performed a farewell concert two weeks before his death, defying doctors' orders, Sharon said
Sharon Osbourneis sharing the final moments she spent with her late husband,Ozzy Osbourne, opening up for the first time since the iconic rocker died in July.
In an emotional interview onPiers Morgan Uncensoredreleased Wednesday, Dec. 10, Sharon, 73, said her husband knew his time was near — and made that clear in the final words he spoke to her.
According to Sharon, Ozzy had been up and down during the night before he died. At one point, he woke her. "I said, 'I'm already bloody awake, you've woken me up,' " she recalled. "And he said, 'Kiss me.' And then he said, 'Hug me tight.' "
Those would be the last words he ever said to her.
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Sometime later that morning, the Black Sabbath frontman went downstairs to work out — something he did regularly — when he suffered a medical event. He never spoke again.
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Ozzydied on July 22 at age 76.
"If only I'd have told him I loved him more. If only I'd have held him tighter," Sharon said, reflecting on the moment she now knows was their last exchange.
The couple, along with their children, became household names in the early 2000s through their hit MTV reality seriesThe Osbournes. In recent years, Ozzy had stepped away from the spotlight as he navigated a series of health issues, including Parkinson's disease.
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Sharon said that in the days leading up to his death, Ozzy spoke openly about feeling at peace and described vivid dreams that felt almost like visitations.
"He was seeing people that he never knew," she said. When she pressed him on who he meant, Ozzy told her, "'All different people. And I just keep walking and walking, and I'm seeing all these different people every night… and they're looking at me, and nobody's talking.' "
To Sharon, it was clear he was preparing for something. "He knew. He was ready," she said.
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Ozzy returned to the stage to take place in the long-awaitedBack to the Beginning farewell concertwith Black Sabbath on July 5, just two weeks before his death.
The farewell concert, Sharon said, was a performance he gave even though it was "against doctors' orders." She told Morgan, 60, she believed Ozzy felt compelled to do it anyway. Afterward, she added, he seemed "like sunshine," happier than she'd seen him in years.
"It was as if he knew it was his goodbye," Sharon said.
Since Ozzy's death, Sharon has been open about the ongoing grief she's been experiencing, noting in a November podcast episode that shestruggles sleeping aloneand hates "going to bed at night."
"I will never let go of your hand until I see you on the other side," she captioned the post on Dec. 3, for what would have been his 77th birthday.
Meanwhile, in his posthumous memoirLast Rites, published in October,Ozzy opened up about his mortality, explaining that Sharon and their kids — including daughtersAimee, 42, andKelly, 40, and sonJack, 39 — would often shut down any conversation about his death.
But there was one thing he and Sharon did discuss. "The only conversation I've had with Sharon was when we decided we wanted to be buried together," he wrote in the book. "I've also said to Sharon, don't you dare go before me. It's my biggest fear now, Sharon leaving this world before I do. If she does, I won't be too far behind."
"I live for the woman," he said.
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