Jack Osbourne has given a blunt and moving assessment of how his mother, Sharon Osbourne, is coping after the death of her husband, rock singer Ozzy Osbourne, saying she is buoyed by public support even as grief remains close to the surface. “She’s okay, but she’s not okay,” Jack said in a Good Morning America interview aired this week, describing the “outpour of love” for his father since July as deeper than the family anticipated. “None of us expected it to be like this with that outpour of love,” he said, adding that his mother “feels the love” from fans and well-wishers around the world.
Jack, 39, spoke in the segment about the shock of the moment he learned of his father’s passing and the emotional whiplash of grief that followed. He recounted waking to a pre-dawn knock at his Los Angeles home from a longtime family staffer and immediately understanding that something was wrong. “I wish he was still here. I wish he was still with us all,” he said, but acknowledged the severity of his father’s recent health struggles. “No one expected it to happen as quickly as it did and when it did,” he added, contrasting the family’s hopes after Ozzy’s farewell concert in early July with the rapid decline that led to his death later that month.
Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, at the age of 76, with his family announcing that the Black Sabbath frontman and reality-television figure had passed away “surrounded by love.” The statement, issued the same day, followed his last public performance on July 5 in Birmingham, England, where he appeared seated for portions of a final “Back to the Beginning” show tied to Black Sabbath’s legacy in their home city. The family asked for privacy at the time while acknowledging the scale of the public reaction to the loss of an artist whose career spanned more than five decades and helped define heavy metal as a global genre.
In the weeks that followed, officials confirmed that Osbourne suffered a fatal heart attack; reports citing the death certificate noted coronary artery disease as an underlying condition, alongside years of Parkinson’s disease that complicated his final period of ill health. The formal accounting aligned with the trajectory of his last years, which included surgeries to address injuries from a 2019 fall and a progressive loss of mobility. Those medical struggles, visible in his final on-stage appearance, had already forced the cancellation of touring plans even as he remained intent on performing again.