In the months after losing Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne says she came face to face with a promise she once believed she would keep — and ultimately chose not to honor.
According to Page Six, while speaking candidly on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” the longtime television personality opened up about why she could not follow through with a long-discussed assisted suicide pact she and her late husband had made years earlier.
Sharon said the decision came down to one thing: her children.
“I would have just gone with Ozzy. Oh, yeah, definitely, I’ve done everything I wanted to do,” she told Morgan. “But my kids have been unbelievably, just magnificent with me.”
Sharon, who shared daughters Aimee, 42, Kelly, 41, and son Jack, 40, with the Black Sabbath frontman, said their love and presence forced her to reconsider what following through with the pact would mean for them.
She recalled a moment from years earlier that left a lasting impression. During a period when she sought treatment for her mental health, Sharon said she encountered two young women whose lives had been shattered by the loss of a parent.
“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 Osbournes’ assisted suicide agreement first became public in Sharon’s 2007 memoir, “Survivor: My Story – The Next Chapter.”
In the book, she revealed the couple planned to travel to Switzerland and seek physician-assisted death through the 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 plan in the event of severe brain illness.
“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.
Years later, Ozzy expanded on that view. In a 2014 interview, he said the pact would apply to any “life-threatening conditions.”
“If I can’t get up and go to the bathroom myself,” Ozzy said, “[then] I don’t want to be here.”
During her appearance with Morgan, Sharon also shared Ozzy’s final moments. She recalled his last words with quiet emotion.
“And he said, ‘Kiss me,’” she remembered. “And then he said, ‘Hug me tight.’”
Now living with the weight of loss, Sharon said grief has become a constant companion.
“Grief is very weird to me,” she said. “When you love someone that much and you’re grieving for them, it’s what I have to live with… I’ll get used to it. I have to.”
