Ozzy Osbourne’s final years are at the centre of a new documentary, Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, which offers an intimate glimpse into the rock legend’s personal life.
The Black Sabbath legend died of heart failure at his Buckinghamshire home on July 22, just a few days after performing a farewell concert with his bandmates at Birmingham’s Villa Park.
Now, details about the iconic rocker have emerged, as she opened about his own mortality in his memoir, Last Rites, released posthumously after his tragic death at the age of 76. In it, he reflected on the emotional Black at the Beginning concert and his acceptance of his fate.
Candid addressing his impending death, Ozzy wrote: ‘I had felt ‘death’s been knocking at my door for the last six years’ and acknowledged that he would one day ‘have to let him in.’
Although he admitted he ‘was not ready to go,’ the legendary musician said he was longer afraid of dying and felt he had ‘had a good run.’
In a deeply emotional confession, Ozzy revealed that his greatest fear in his final months was the thought of his beloved wife, Sharon, dying before him.
‘I live for the woman,’ he wrote, adding that he wouldn’t surive without her.
For context, the extract was published in The Sunday Times.
