Overview

• Published October 7, 2025, Last Rites offers new first-person detail on Osbourne’s friendship with Perry, including Alcoholics Anonymous meetings held at the Osbourne home.
• Osbourne writes that Perry was “the funniest, most talented bloke” who was “trying so hard to stay on the right path,” noting their shared focus on sobriety.
• Reflecting on Perry’s 2023 death, Osbourne recalls learning he was found unresponsive in his hot tub with ketamine in his system; the coroner ruled an accidental drowning due to acute ketamine effects.
• The memoir recounts Osbourne’s own relapse in 2012, his return to recovery with 90 meetings in 90 days, and a doctor‑supervised ketamine microdose that prompted a renewed commitment to sobriety.
• Coverage reiterates that news reports have cited five arrests in the Perry case, including longtime assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, with no new legal developments presented in these articles.