During an appearance on the latest episode of the “Dumb Blonde” celebrity podcast, hosted by Bunnie XO (real name: Alisa DeFord), wife of country singer Jelly Roll, Sharon Osbourne was asked how she is “picking herself back up” after the July 2025 death of her husband, legendary BLACK SABBATH singer Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon, who managed Ozzy‘s career and played a key role in his solo success after he was fired from BLACK SABBATH in 1979, responded:  ”I’m getting there. I’m getting there. It’s hard. Jesus, it’s hard, but I’m getting there. I’m gonna keep working and I’m gonna keep doing what I do in my life. And that’s it.”

Asked if she and the rest of her family knew that Ozzy was dying when they staged the “Back To The Beginning” concert — which marked Ozzy‘s final performance — last July, Sharon said: “Yeah. Two weeks before the show, they said he could probably die, and he did. But he wanted to do it so bad. He needed it. And it’s, like, ‘Whether I die in two weeks or I die in six months, I’m still dying. And I wanna go my way.’ And he did. He went like a rock star.”

Reflecting on the outpouring of love at Ozzy and BLACK SABBATH‘s farewell show, Sharon said: “It’s kind of bittersweet, because, again, we knew. Ozzy had sepsis earlier on last year. And very few people ever walk away from that without losing a limb or their life… And as soon as he got sepsis, the kids and I, we knew it was time. And then when we went to England, he went into hospital for a week. And when he came out, they said, ‘You know, Ozzy, this could kill you.’ And he said, ‘I’m doing my show.’ And it was — I mean, he went out like a king.”

Sharon continued: “The thing is when you’ve lived your life that way, and it was, like, ‘Okay, six months more to go out the way I wanna go out.’ It’s like saying, when you get really old and somebody’s still smoking and they’re, like, 78 years of age, and you’re, like, just let him smoke. Leave him alone. He’s 78. Leave him alone. And it’s, like, he went the way he wanted to go. He knew. He knew.”

Sharon also talked about Ozzy‘s final hours and his eventual death at the age of 76 following a heart attack.

“It was so quick,” she said. “And thank God. And I knew when they were trying to revive him, I knew. I’m, like, ‘Don’t. Don’t do it. Leave him.’ He was done. But again, he went out like a rock star. Ooh, did he ever? … He was a king. And he loved people. He loved his audience. He loved ’em so much. And even if you didn’t like his music, you couldn’t dislike him.”