Almost four months after the world lost Ozzy Osbourne, his family have opened up in a gut-wrenching new episode of The Osbournes Podcast.

It’s 90 minutes of pure honesty - Sharon, Kelly and Jack sitting down to talk about Ozzy’s last days, his final concert at Villa Park, and the tidal wave of love that followed.

Kelly broke down as she spoke about life without him. “I never realized just how horrible grief is,” she said. “I never thought there’d be a day where he wouldn’t be here.”

Sharon nodded, saying her own waves of sadness hit hardest at night. “I hate going to bed,” she admitted, while Kelly revealed she’d slept beside her mum for the first two months just so she wouldn’t be alone.

When Jack asks when they realised Ozzy wasn’t going to get better, Sharon doesn’t sugarcoat it. “The sepsis,” she says. “When he was diagnosed with that, I was like, ‘I don't think he's going to be able to cope with the effects of this’. 

She continued, “Because, I mean, it's just horrendous. It's brutal. But one side of me was like, you know the voices in your head - ‘he's not gonna make it’, ‘Yeah, he is, he’s Ozzy He's gonna do it.’

“Yes, he did the show, yes, but I didn't see him going as quickly as he went. I didn't see it.”

Kelly adds that, looking back, her dad knew it was coming.

“And it's only in retrospect that I see that now because he started saying things to me that I think he was preparing me for when he wasn't going to be here. I just thought that the buzz of the show and everything that that gave him would give him enough to stick around a little longer.”

They talk about that last show - the Back to the Beginning concert at Villa Park - where fans sent their love loud enough to shake the stadium. “He couldn’t believe the reviews and people’s reaction to the show,” Sharon says. 

“He was just like in awe, and that's when I say he didn't realise how many people loved him as a person. Not as the front man of Black Sabbath or his own thing. It was just his being. People loved him and he never got it. He had no understanding of it whatsoever.”

Jack points out that Back to the Beginning would’ve been the first time he’d done a show while being on social media: “He didn't have social media until he got sick seven years ago, and so he was able to, after the show, go on Instagram, go on Facebook, go on Tiktok, and he was seeing all this stuff firsthand, like all the praises and people just loving on him.”

“There will never be another Ozzy,” Sharon says. “He was totally unique.”

The family also thanked fans for helping them through. “The outpouring of love has been so helpful to us,” Kelly says. “To know we’re not alone in our grief and that the world loved him as much as we did.”

Plenty of people would agree with that. Rest easy, Prince of Darkness.