Ozzy Osbourne: Sharon Osbourne Says She Visits His Grave Daily, 15 Months On

Sharon Osbourne has said she visits the grave of her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, every day, more than a year after the singer died at the age of 76 at his home in Buckinghamshire. In recent interviews she described how she is learning to live with his loss, and how the family chose a private resting place for him on their estate.

A private burial and a public outpouring

Ozzy was buried at the family's Buckinghamshire estate. Sharon said she could not place him in a public graveyard, pointing to the attention other public figures have faced from visitors. "There was no way I could put Ozzy in a public graveyard," she told the BBC. "There's no peace because people want to come and they want to pay their respects."

Thousands of fans lined the streets of Birmingham before his funeral, leaving floral tributes and singing Black Sabbath songs as his body was taken through his home city. Sharon said the family collected the cards and messages left by fans, and that the flowers were composted for the family garden. Daughter Kelly has said the public response helped the family feel less alone in their grief.

Sharon has also said she still speaks to Ozzy regularly at his grave, though she did not share what they discuss.

Grief and memories of their final days

Sharon described a long and sometimes turbulent marriage. The couple met in 1970 and married in 1982, and she said they had "such highs and such terrible lows." She told the BBC that in the last days he had been unwell and that she wished she had told him she loved him more.

In a December 2025 interview on Piers Morgan's talk show, she recalled that Ozzy woke her early on the morning he died and asked her to hold him tightly. He then went downstairs for a 20-minute workout, after which he suffered a heart attack. Paramedics attempted to save him, but he died. The cause of death has been widely reported as a heart attack, according to the family's account in interviews.

The final concert and a new documentary

Ozzy's last major performance was the "Back to the Beginning" show at Birmingham's Villa Park on 5 July 2025, where he reunited with Black Sabbath. Doctors had reportedly advised him not to perform, according to Sharon, because his heart was too weak. He was determined to go ahead, and Sharon said the concert kept him "flying high" until the end.

A documentary, Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning, premiered at a London screening and includes more than 25 songs from the concert. It features performances from Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Pantera and Tool, among others. Metallica frontman James Hetfield says in the film that without Sabbath there would be no Metallica. The film is set to open in cinemas worldwide on 28 October.

What we know so far

Sharon Osbourne says she continues to mourn her husband and is learning to live with the loss, while the family keeps his grave private. The documentary, which revisits his final concert, reaches cinemas later this week. Sharon's accounts of his final days come from her own interviews and have not been independently verified.