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Paramount+ Documentary and Posthumous Memoir Detail Ozzy Osbourne’s Final Years as Family Shares Grief

The new releases trace his decline and farewell concert shortly before his July death at 76.

Overview

  • Paramount+ released Ozzy: No Escape From Now on Oct. 7, days after BBC One aired Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, with both projects chronicling his last years and health struggles.
  • Jack Osbourne told Good Morning America that Sharon is "OK, but she's not OK" and described the July 5 Villa Park farewell as "a living wake" where his father got to say goodbye.
  • Last Rites, completed shortly before his passing, includes Ozzy’s reflections on accepting mortality and his fear that Sharon might die before him.
  • The memoir also recounts Sharon’s stance that there be no backup plan for the finale, urging Ozzy to address the crowd if he couldn’t sing.
  • A death certificate filed in August states he died July 22 of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to an acute myocardial infarction, with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s with autonomic dysfunction.