Ozzy Osbourne was inundated with heartfelt tributes from followers and celeb friends after his household confirmed his loss of life in a shock assertion on Tuesday (July 22). A joint open letter, signed by the rock icon’s spouse Sharon Osbourne and youngsters Aimee, Kelly and Jack, revealed that he died “surrounded by household” aged 76.
Nevertheless, simply two weeks earlier than, former discuss present panellist Kelly strongly denied hypothesis that Ozzy had a suicide pact with Sharon amid stories of his declining well being. Earlier this month, the 40-year-old took to Instagram and raged: “Cease making articles or posts about the way you assume my mother and father are having a suicide pact. “That was bulls*** my mother stated to get consideration one time. And my dad’s not dying. Cease.”
Whereas acknowledging her father’s battle with Parkinson’s illness and his restricted mobility stemming from a close to deadly 2003 quad bike accident, Kelly insisted he was “not dying.”
Her stern message got here after a clip created by synthetic intelligence had circulated social media with a voice much like Ozzy’s saying: “I don’t want a physician to inform me that I’m going to die. I do know I’m going to die.”
As for the suicide pact, Sharon, 72, first made the stunning declare in a 2007 interview.
On the time, the previous expertise decide claimed: “We imagine 100% in euthanasia, [we] have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an sickness that impacts our brains.
“If Ozzy or I ever obtained Alzheimer’s [disease], that’s it we’d be off,” she continued, including that they couldn’t “put [their] children via that.”
Nevertheless, the household later revisited the topic throughout a 2023 episode of their joint podcast, The Osbourne Podcast because the couple’s son Jack requested his mom in the event that they nonetheless had a plan to go to Switzerland.
“Do you assume that we’ll undergo?” Sharon replied. To which he stated: “Nicely, possibly! Is not life already struggling?
“Sure, all of us are, however I do not need it to truly harm, as nicely,” Sharon stated: “Psychological struggling is sufficient ache with out bodily. So, in case you’ve obtained psychological and bodily, see ya.” (sic)
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