Kelly Osbourne isn’t sugarcoating how hard life has been since losing her father, Ozzy Osbourne.
During an interview on Paul C. Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast, the 41-year-old opened up about her mental health after Ozzy passed away in July 2025, sharing how the heavy grief led to a relapse in her sobriety.
“I was at ground zero,” she admitted. “I started drinking again. I lost my mind. I couldn’t handle it.”
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Ozzy’s Lasting Words of Love
Three days before his death, Ozzy sat Kelly down for an emotional heart-to-heart.
“He sat me down and said, ‘Tots, I need you to know something… No matter what happens in this life, you can live the rest of your life knowing that there was one man on this planet that truly loved you, that truly loved you for every single thing you are. And that man is me,’” Kelly shared.
“I started to cry, saying, ‘Please don’t talk like this,’ because he said, ‘You know, I’m not going to be here forever, and I know you struggle with people and believing you are loved. But I love you more than anyone,’” she continued. “Three days later, he was gone.”
While those final words gave her comfort, nothing could truly prepare her for life without her dad.
Rebuilding After a Relapse
The pain of his absence eventually became too much to carry alone.
“I was a shell of myself,” she told Brunson. “I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t do anything. I was just empty. Broken in every way a human being could possibly be broken and completely unable to even take care of myself.”
She stopped eating, lost a significant amount of weight, and even wore a wig to hide how thin her face had gotten. But no matter how hard things were, her 3-year-old son, Sidney, always came first.
“Whenever he walked in the room, something would come over me, and I’d snap into Miss Fun Mom,” Kelly said in an interview with The Mail. “I didn’t cry in front of him. … I always made sure that he was not exposed to inappropriate sorrow.”
Today, Kelly is eight months sober, in therapy, and channeling her experience into a three-part documentary about grief to help others navigating loss — accepting that while she’s permanently changed, she’s ready to move forward.
“I’ll never be the person I was before my father died… a part of me died, too,” Kelly told HELLO! Magazine in August. “I’m different. Everything has changed, but it’s just taking it one day at a time and putting the pieces back together in a way that you think will work.”
