Kelly Osbourne was by dad Ozzy Osbourne’s side throughout his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
The Black Sabbath frontman revealed during a 2020 appearance on Good Morning America that he was diagnosed with the illness the previous year. Kelly was by her father’s side for the sit-down and opened up about Ozzy’s condition.
“The hardest thing is watching somebody that you love suffer,” she reflected.
After announcing his diagnosis, Ozzy battled more health issues and underwent multiple procedures. Amid his health battle, Kelly exclusively opened up to Us Weekly in October 2024 about her worries for her loved ones. (Ozzy shared daughters Kelly and Aimee and son Jack with wife Sharon Osbourne. The musician was also father to Elliot, Louis and Jessica with ex-wife Thelma Riley.)
“My biggest fear is losing a member of my family,” she confessed. “Because we are such a unit and so close that we are nothing without the other.”
In July 2025, news broke that Ozzy died at age 76 two weeks after his final performance with Black Sabbath.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the Osbourne family shared in a statement to Metro at the time. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
Keep scrolling for Kelly’s quotes about Ozzy’s battle with Parkinson’s over the years:
Coming Together
After Ozzy publicly shared his Parkinson’s diagnosis, Kelly explained how their family came together.
“It’s kind of become a bit of, I think, a role reversal for us, where we have to be, like, ‘Snap out of it. Come on. We have to all admit what’s happening here so that we can get over this,’” she said to GMA in January 2020. “And it took a while for everyone to be on the same page.”
Taking It Day by Day
One month later, Kelly gave an update on how Ozzy was faring.
“Everyone is acting like it’s doomsday but it’s not. Life happens and everybody gets dealt a different set of cards and it depends how you play it,” she said in a February 2020 interview with The Mirror. “We take every day as it comes and he is doing incredible. We couldn’t have [gotten] much closer, but we did. Everyone is acting like it is doomsday, it’s not. It’s just something we have to deal with.”
Proud Daughter
Kelly couldn’t help but gush about her dad amid his health battle.
“I love my dad more than anything in the world,” she exclusively told Us in October 2024. “And I’m so proud of him and everything that he is facing and all the challenges that come his way, and how he just seems to get through it every single time. There’s no one like him. He truly is an Iron Man.”
Facing Difficulties
The TV personality opened up to Us about how her father’s battle had its highs and lows.
“Parkinson’s is really tricky. We don’t know good days from bad days until you’re in it. You can plan and plan and plan and plan, but you just don’t know until you are actually in the timeframe of where you’re supposed to be doing something,” Kelly explained. “We didn’t even know if we were gonna get to Ohio for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he got medically cleared for the flight the day of the flight, so all of us didn’t know if we were going until the day of.”
Despite the situation’s uncertainty at times, Kelly shared that they were able to make it, and Ozzy had the “best time.”
Making the Most Out of Their Time
As Ozzy’s battle continued, Kelly admitted that she was prioritizing quality time with her dad.
“My dad is not the way he used to be, since the Parkinson’s and surgeries and everything that happened,” she said in a June 2025 interview with Hello! “So I dedicate my life to spending as much time with him as I possibly can. He’s also, like, my best friend.”
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