Louis Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne’s eldest son, has made a uncommon public look along with his half-brother Jack Osbourne to speak about rising up with the Black Sabbath legend – and he’s placing some rumours to mattress.

The legendary frontman died in July aged 76 after months of worsening well being, however not earlier than he rocked out in his native Villa Park for his ultimate outing because the Prince of Darkness.

Whereas many individuals consider Sharon Osbourne, 73, Kelly Osbourne, 41, and I’m A Superstar star Jack, 40, as Ozzy’s household, he had different youngsters from a earlier marriage and one other daughter with Sharon known as Aimee Osbourne, who opted out of the TV present and left dwelling aged 16.

The frontman married his first spouse Thelma Riley in 1971, when she was 18 and he was navigating the world of rock n’ roll. Collectively they welcomed Jessica and Louis, and Ozzy adopted Elliot, Thelma’s son from a earlier relationship.

Ozzy’s solely household to signal the assertion saying his dying have been Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis.

Whereas Louis, 49, briefly starred within the first collection of MTV actuality present The Osbournes, he hardly ever seems in public underneath the banner of his well-known surname.

Now months after Ozzy’s dying, Jack bought his large brother on the newest episode of his Making an attempt Not To Die podcast, by which Louis opened up about his recollections of pop Ozzy rising up within the 70s and 80s.

When requested about his earliest recollections of Ozzy, Louis – who was ‘sobbing’ at his dad’s ultimate gig – mentioned the rocker was typically out on tour, as his childhood coincided with Black Sabbath’s greatest years.

When Louis was a pre-teen Ozzy was in his most chaotic, intoxicated interval, with tales of ripping heads of bats and even making an attempt to strangle his spouse Sharon to dying in a drug-fuelled state, popping out within the press.

‘The bat factor, I simply thought it was humorous,’ Louis mentioned, earlier than admitting to Jack: ‘There was that point he and your mum had that altercation and he ended up within the clink [prison], that was a nasty one.

‘Your mum picked us up from faculty and spoke to us about that. Simply reassured us every thing was going to be alright, dad’s going to hunt assist, and all of that stuff.’

Louis additionally cleared up one long-held hearsay – began by Ozzy himself – that the Adjustments hitmaker shot and killed 17 of the household’s cats.

Throughout a 2007 chat with The Scotsman, by which he additionally detailed the evening he tried to kill Sharon, Ozzy reportedly admitted: ‘I used to be taking medicine a lot I used to be a f*****.

‘The ultimate straw got here once I shot all our cats. We had about 17, and I went loopy and shot all of them. My spouse discovered me underneath the piano in a white swimsuit, a shotgun in a single hand and a knife within the different.’

However now his son Louis has confirmed this didn’t occur.

‘We by no means owned 17 cats,’ Louis mentioned, including: ‘He did go and shoot a pen of chickens and set fireplace to it in a mad drunken rage one evening.

‘However he by no means ever ever slaughtered any cats. I’m placing the document straight right here.’

Jack agreed, including: ‘I noticed a remark saying, “He killed cats, f**okay him,” after dad died. I do know he mentioned that, however there’s no precise proof he did that.’

Of his fonder recollections, Louis mentioned within the Eighties his boarding faculty housemaster allowed him and pals to remain up late to observe High of the Pops when Ozzy was on.

Whereas Louis revealed Ozzy’s fame didn’t gas bullies prefer it did with Jack, he admitted: ‘What effected me extra was lacking him. He was on tour, I used to be at boarding faculty.’

Reflecting on how the response to Ozzy’s dying shocked him, Louis mentioned: ‘I at all times knew how cool my dad was however I by no means realised how f***ing cool. I’ve solely realised since he’s gone.’

He additionally didn’t count on so many individuals to show as much as his funeral procession in Birmingham.

‘As a result of it’s my hometown the place the cortege was, I dwell in Birmingham and I do know the road that was going to be on,’ he started, persevering with: ‘As we turned onto the road, or simply barely earlier than we turned onto the road, I simply thought it was going to be like two or three folks deep for like half a kilometer earlier than the place the Black Sabbath bridge was and it could be a throng.

‘As we got here in the direction of the road and switch onto the road, I’m getting goosebumps occupied with it now, it was f***ing insane.

‘Like folks climbing up lampposts, hanging out of home windows, standing on high of bus stops to get a glance of it. It was awe inspiring.

‘As soon as we had all bought out of the vehicles and confirmed our respects, and put some flowers down and moved on once more, it stored on going for an additional half a mile after which folks have been following us throughout city.

‘I knew folks beloved him, however I didn’t have a way of what number of and the way a lot.’

For his grownup life Louis has loved a protracted profession as a dance music DJ, first spinning decks in 1992 earlier than hanging up his headphones in 2015 and taking up the job of managing DJs as a substitute.

Whereas he’s completed the odd gig since, Louis revealed he doesn’t miss DJing, as in his later years he bought anxiousness about whether or not folks have been having fun with his units or not.

For a while, Louis loved participating in aggressive triathlons, however says it’s arduous to trim right down to race weight – which he’s presently ’25 kilos over’ – in his late 40s.

In his 2009 autobiography I Am Ozzy, the rocker recalled how he and Louis’ mum Thelma met within the Rum Runner nightclub whereas she was working as a waitress.

‘She was stunning and I wished to speak to her,’ he wrote. ‘I pulled her on the dance flooring.’

Ozzy continued: ‘A yr or so later, in 1971, we bought married in a registry workplace. I assumed it was what you probably did: get some dough, discover a chick, get married, calm down, go to the pub.’

In line with reviews, Ozzy went on in his autobiography to name it ‘a horrible mistake’ and admitted, ‘I put her by hell’.

He reportedly added: ‘I used to be a really egocentric younger man, filled with drink and medicines, and I didn’t know the right way to be a husband or a father.’

Thelma, thought to have survived him, has stored out of the general public eye following their tumultuous marriage and reportedly went on to work as a trainer.

After their break up in 1981 Sharon and Osbourne tied the knot in Hawaii on July 4, 1982 having met within the 70s when she was 18 and her dad was Black Sabbath’s supervisor.

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