Sharon Osbourne is sharing her emotional reaction after the 2026 Grammy Awards paid tribute to her late husband, Ozzy Osbourne.
During the Sunday, February 1, music awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Post Malone, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Slash, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Andrew Watt performed Black Sabbath’s hit song “War Pigs” while a visibly tearful Sharon and her children, Aimee, Jack and Kelly, watched.
“Last night was bigger than a performance. It was a moment carved into musical history. Reminding everyone that rock isn’t nostalgia — it’s alive, evolving, and still the heartbeat of music,” Sharon, 73, wrote via X on Monday, February 2.
“Post, you were pure magic, a shapeshifter with a voice that can bend into any genre. Slash, Duff, Andrew, Chad, you are the master of your craft and complete icons. Truly from the bottom of my heart, thank you ❤️ Ozzy was definitely in the building ✌️ 🙏🤘,” Sharon added.
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Ozzy died aged 76 in July 2025 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the rock legend’s family said in a statement to Us Weekly at the time. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
Ozzy’s cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease, according to a death certificate obtained by the U.K.’s The Sun newspaper in August 2025.
During a December 2025 appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sharon opened up about her husband’s final words to her.
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“He told me that he was having dreams the last week of his life. He was seeing people that he never knew,” the music manager said. “I said, ‘Well, what kind of people?’ He goes, ‘All different people. I just keep walking and walking, and I’m seeing all these different people every night, and I go back there and I’m looking at these people, and they’re looking at me, and nobody’s talking.’ And he knew. He was ready.”
“The night before he passed, he [got] up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was, like, 4:30 and he said, ‘Wake up,’” Sharon recalled. “He said, ‘Kiss me,’ and then he said, ‘Hug me tight?’”
The next morning, Sharon discovered Ozzy had died.
“[I heard] screaming in the house, and I ran downstairs, and there he was, and they were trying to resuscitate him, and I’m, like, ‘Don’t, leave him. He’s gone,’” she said. “I knew instantly he’s gone. And they tried and tried, and then they took him by helicopter to the hospital and they tried, and it’s, like, ‘He’s gone. Just leave him.’”
Before his death, Ozzy performed one last concert with Black Sabbath in his hometown of Birmingham, England, despite doctors being concerned about his health.
“He’d been so ill this year, terribly, terribly ill, and when we came to England, we were meeting with new doctors here,” Sharon said. “The main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this [farewell] show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.’ We just sat there, and he said, ‘I’m doing it, I want to do it and I’m doing it.’”
