Overview
- On Good Morning America, Jack Osbourne said his mother Sharon is "OK, but she's not OK" and described the July 5 Villa Park concert as "a living wake" where Ozzy said goodbye to fans.
- Excerpts from Last Rites recount Ozzy’s fear he might be too ill to perform and Sharon’s decision against any prerecorded contingency, telling him to speak to the crowd if he couldn’t sing.
- The memoir’s final chapter, written days before his death, describes an arrhythmia and an 80%‑blocked heart valve, with doctors declining surgery because stopping Parkinson’s blood thinners was too risky.
- The BBC’s Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home aired Oct. 2, and Paramount+ releases Ozzy: No Escape From Now on Oct. 7 alongside the publication of Last Rites.
- Ozzy died July 22 at 76, 17 days after the farewell concert; his death certificate cites a heart attack, with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease noted.