Jack Osbourne has opened up about the heart-wrenching moment he was told his dad had died at the age of 76. The reality TV star’s dad, rock legend Ozzy, died on July 22 at his Buckinghamshire home and was laid to rest in a private ceremony by the estate’s lake on July 31.
His death, due to acute myocardial infarction and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, followed a fierce fight with Parkinson’s disease and pain after a series of back surgeries. It also came just weeks after what turned out to be his final live performance in Birmingham.
In a recent YouTube video, Jack, 39, reminisced about the last time he saw his father.
He said: “My dad was great. He was in a good mood, he was happy.”
Speaking about the moment he learned of Ozzy’s passing, Jack revealed: “I woke up in Los Angeles to a knock on my house door at around 3.45 in the morning.
“Someone who has worked for my family for about 30 years now was knocking on my door and when I looked through my window and I saw it was him, I knew something bad had happened. I was informed that my father had passed.”
Jack said: “So many thoughts, there was a level of like, ‘Okay, he’s not struggling. He’s not suffering anymore, and that is something’.
“I wish he was still here, you know? I wish he was still with us all, but he was having a rough go and I think people saw that at the show.”
Jack travelled to the UK for the funeral and a procession in Birmingham in memory of his late father, where thousands of fans gathered and tributes were left at the Black Sabbath Bridge.
The reality TV personality added about the farewell: “I speak for the family when I say this: we are so grateful for that and it meant so much… it was validating because I know we weren’t alone.
“I actually shared this at my at my father’s funeral.
“There’s an interview with Keanu Reeves. He’s on some nighttime talk show or whatever and they asked him, ‘What do you think happens when you die?'”.
“And Keanu Reeves answer was, ‘I don’t know what happens when you die, but what I do know is the people that love you miss you the most’.
“I felt that immensely. (Ozzy) wasn’t just a father to me. He was my colleague. We worked together in so many capacities.
“I had recently moved, there was a period where I was between houses and I moved back in with him.
“So, he was my housemate in my late 30s and it was awesome.
“Me and the kids were living here. Just a friend, a text buddy, a joke cracker.”