It’s been over a month since the death of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne at the age of 76. Jack Osbourne opens up and reveals how he learned of his father’s death in the first episode of his podcast after taking a six-week hiatus.
Jack and his family had spent a week in Birmingham after the concert at Ozzy and Sharon’s home. They originally cancelled their vacation plans when Jack’s children came down with the stomach flu.
In the week after Ozzy’s final farewell performance, Jack recounts how the rocker was in an “amazing mood” looking at all the news articles and reviews about the concert. Jack and his family returned to Los Angeles after spending time with his parents, and it wasn’t until a week after their return that he learned of Ozzy’s death.
“I woke up in Los Angeles to a knock on my house door at around 3:45 in the morning, somebody who works for my family for 30 years now is knocking on my door,” said Jack.
“When I looked through my window and saw it was him, I knew something bad had happened. And I was informed that my father had passed.”
Talking about his initial reaction to the news, he explains he felt “sadness and pain” but later found some solace in his father’s death.
“He’s not suffering anymore. He’s not struggling. And that is something. I wish he was still here, I wish he was still with us all, but he was having a rough go. I think people saw that at the show. But no one expected it to happen as quickly as it did, and when it did. It was not anything that was on our radar,” he explained.
Ozzy’s cause of death was ruled as “out-of-hospital cardiac arrest” and “acute myocardial infarction.” Coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction were listed as “joint causes.” He was interred on the grounds of his family estate, Welders House, in Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England.
