OZZY’s Son LOUIS OSBOURNE Reflects On His Father’s Passing – “I Knew People Loved Him, But I Didn’t Have A Sense Of How Many And How Much”; Video
Ozzy Osbourne’s rarely-seen son, Louis Osbourne, guests on the new episode of Jack Osbourne’s “Trying Not To Die” podcast. Watch video below.
Episode description: Jack’s brother Louis Osbourne stops by the show. Together, they remember Ozzy, including tales from the road, the first time he met Axl Rose and the truth about those seventeen cats. Plus, Louis and Jack share details of the massive outpouring of support at the cortège (funeral procession) in Birmingham.
During the episode, Jack asks Louis, “Since Dad’s passed, what’s been the standout thing for you that you were like, ‘I was not expecting that?’”
Louis responds, “The volume of people at the cortège. I honestly thought.. I mean the show was hugely emotional, we were having a good old cry together at one point. ‘Cause it’s my hometown where the cortège was, I live in Birmingham still and I know the street that it was going to be on. As we turned onto the street, or just slightly before we turned onto the street, I just thought it was going to be like two or three people deep for like half a kilometer before where the Black Sabbath Bridge was, and it would be a throng. As we came towards the street and turned onto the street – I’m getting goosebumps thinking about it – it was fucking insane. People climbing up lamp posts, hanging out of windows, standing on top of bus stops to get a look of it. It was awe inspiring. And then once we’d all got out cars and, you know, shown our respects and put some flowers down and and moved on again, it kept on going for another half a mile. And then people were following us all around town. It was… I knew people loved him, but I didn’t have a sense of how many and how much, really.”
The 25th instalment of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! got underway on the UK’s ITV on Sunday, November 16. Jack Osbourne is a participant, and during the show he opened up to Lisa Riley about losing his father, who died back in July at the age of 76.
Jack: “It was definitely a shock. I mean, we knew he was sick for a while but it was definitely a shock. We didn’t know it would be that quick. It was the ultimate mic drop, he did a massive big gig and was like, all right, I’m done.”
October 7 marked the publication of Ozzy Osbourne’s second autobiography Last Rites (Grand Central Publishing). The memoir was finished just days before the rock icon’s untimely July 2025 passing and it chronicles the past seven or so years of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter’s life.
In an interview with Rolling Stone UK, Jack Osbourne reflects on his father’s final years.
During the course of the candid and emotional interview, Jack reflects on the impact Ozzy had on him throughout his life, as well as how he, his mom, Sharon, and sisters, Aimée and Kelly, have been handling the tragic loss. A couple of excerpts from the interview follows…
Rolling Stone UK: Ozzy definitely didn’t want people to feel sorry for him. Why do you think it was important to him to write the book and explain the challenges he faced after the accident?
Jack Osbourne: “I think he wrote it partially to clear away some speculation about this, that, and the other. Also, he wrote it just to set the record straight: ‘Yeah, I’ve been sick but don’t feel sorry for me, and this is the life.…’ He had no regrets. He has had such a blessed life, such a journey, and I think he wanted to share that in his own words.
Rolling Stone UK: I know the family struggled with whether to release the book. It must be difficult for you to unveil this chronicle of the past six years. Was it hard to relive that time by reading it?
Jack: “It was interesting to see what he put in the book from the last six and seven years. Everyone always wonders when you read a biography of someone, ‘How accurate is that?’ I can honestly say with this book, it really is his stream of consciousness over this last period of time. I was reading it and I’m going through a chapter, and it starts with a story, and then he goes off on a tangent and then he comes back, and it is so spot on to how his thought process was. I think it has a real personal touch to it because of that.”
Rolling Stone UK: How did the family keep his spirits up since his accident?
Jack: “I think he felt purposeful whenever he was working, whenever he was doing an album with Andrew [Watt] or working with [friend and guitarist] Billy Morrison or doing the podcast with us. It would be tough during these long periods where he either wasn’t working towards something or he was in between things. He would start to just get low.
He loved working. So when he wasn’t, he wasn’t his best self. But there would always be someone at the house, either me and the kids or Kelly and Aimée. We would visit him as much as we could and try and get him to come out occasionally. But he liked his routine. He got into the vibe of just being at home, which was a blessing and a curse; if you tried to mess up that routine, he didn’t like it.
I ended up moving back in for a period. I was between houses, and it was just easier for me to move in with them for six months, and he was in a good spot then, because he couldn’t be miserable. It was just a house full of kids.”
Rolling Stone UK: When was he happiest?
Jack: “When certain friends would visit, he’d be very, very happy. When we would have a big dinner at the house. He wasn’t always happy, but I have memories of him laughing a lot. I’ve got some memories of him laughing pretty hard over some very inappropriate jokes. A dick-in-the-mouth joke that would get him going.”
Rolling Stone UK: How did his personality change since the accident?
Jack: “Just because the pace of life slowed down so much for him, he was a lot quieter. I think slowing down put things into perspective for him a little bit more. In some ways, he was a lot more present. But even though he was quieter, he would still blare music at 10 billion decibels, but it was a different version of himself.”
Rolling Stone UK: What was the music he was blasting?
Jack: “He would play the most random shit. He went through a deep Michael Jackson phase at one point, and he went through a heavy Eighties phase. He always would play Peter Gabriel. And the shitty thing is — one of the things that bums me out the most about the whole fucking Roger Waters bullshit — is that he was always playing Pink Floyd. Fucking asshat how that guy is. I think it’s just jealousy. It’s like, ‘Dude, when you die, they might just do a cheers at the local pub.’”
Read the complete interview at Rolling Stone UK.
Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Ozzy’s descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career, including his marriage to wife Sharon, alongside his reflections on what it took for him to get back onstage for the triumphant “Back To The Beginning” concert, streamed around the world, where Ozzy finally reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates and surrounded by the musicians he’d befriended throughout his storied career. Unflinching, brutally honest, but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Rites demonstrates once again why Ozzy has transcended his status as “The Godfather of Metal” and “The Prince of Darkness” to become a modern-day folk hero and international treasure.
At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world. Then disaster. In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalized with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour—and all public life—as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.
Born John Michael Osbourne in Birmingham, 1948, Ozzy Osbourne is a rock music legend. He is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author (the new autobiography follows Ozzy’s New York Times bestsellers: 2010’s autobiography I Am Ozzy and 2011’s Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy: Advice From Rock’s Ultimate Survivor). His music career, with more than 100 million records sold (with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist), has spanned five decades and as a solo artist and a member of Black Sabbath, Ozzy is a multiple Grammy winner and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
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