Kelly Osbourne says she relapsed into drinking after her father Ozzy Osbourne's death last year, describing herself as "broken in every way" before reaching eight months of sobriety.
The 41-year-old television personality opened up on the "We Need to Talk" podcast, hosted by Paul C. Brunson, in an appearance that laid bare the toll of losing the Black Sabbath legend, and the private struggle she waged in the months that followed. Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack on July 22, 2025, at age 76. His daughter said the loss sent her into a spiral she could not control.
Kelly told Brunson she fell apart almost immediately. She described a grief so consuming that basic daily functions became impossible.
"I lost my mind. I was a shell of myself. I couldn't speak. I couldn't eat. I couldn't do anything."
She went further, telling the podcast she was "just empty, broken in every way a human being could possibly be broken, and completely unable to take care of myself."
That emptiness drove her back to alcohol. Kelly said plainly that she "couldn't handle" the loss and began drinking again, a relapse for someone who had previously fought publicly for sobriety. She did not disclose how long the relapse lasted or whether she sought professional treatment.
By the time she sat down with Brunson, Kelly said she had clawed her way back. "I can honestly say, today I'm eight months sober," she told him. But sobriety came at a social cost. She described cutting people out of her life, not by choice, but because grief made her unwelcome.
"I have the most incredible people around me. I closed my circle because I lost a lot of friends. People don't like sadness, and they expected me to be over it."
She made clear she has no intention of meeting that expectation. "And I will never be over it," she said. "I will never, ever be over it."
The physical toll was visible, too. In the months after Ozzy's death, Kelly lost enough weight that she began wearing wigs to conceal what she later called a "scary" change in her appearance. When critics online accused her of using the weight-loss drug Ozempic, she fired back, telling them to "f*** off." She said the weight loss came from grief, not a prescription, and that at her worst, she "looked like the f***ing Crypt Keeper."
The most striking part of the interview was Kelly's account of the last real conversation she had with her father. She said it took place three days before he died, roughly July 19, 2025. Ozzy, she recalled, sat her down and delivered a message she has carried since.
"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 [who] truly loved you, [who] truly loved you for every single thing you are. And that man is me."
Kelly said Ozzy continued: "You know, I'm not going to be here forever, and I know you struggle with people... believing that you are loved, but I love you more than anyone."
Those words, spoken by a 76-year-old rock star to his adult daughter days before a fatal heart attack, carry a weight that no amount of celebrity tabloid coverage can cheapen. Kelly has referenced this final exchange before, but the podcast appearance gave her room to recount it at length and in her own voice.
A statement provided to Page Six at the time of Ozzy's death confirmed that Kelly, her sister Aimee, and her brother Jack were all by their father's side when he passed. Their half-brother Louis, Ozzy's son from his first marriage to Thelma Riley, "was also said to have been there," though the phrasing left his presence less firmly confirmed than the others. Ozzy also had a daughter, Jessica, from that first marriage, and an adopted son, Elliot Kingsley.
Two days after Ozzy died, Kelly posted on Instagram Stories: "I feel unhappy. I am so sad. I lost the best friend I ever had." That post, brief as it was, turned out to be the first public signal of a grief that would reshape her life over the following year.
Ozzy's cause of death, a heart attack, was publicly revealed on August 5, 2025, roughly two weeks after he died. The singer had battled Parkinson's disease and other health problems for years, but the heart attack was the immediate cause.
Kelly Osbourne's account is not a political story. But it is a human one that cuts against a culture increasingly uncomfortable with loss, with patience, and with the idea that some wounds do not heal on a convenient timeline. She described friends who drifted away because "people don't like sadness", a small, sharp observation about a society that prefers to move on.
The former "Fashion Police" co-host and "Osbournes" reality star has spent most of her adult life in public. She grew up on camera, fought addiction on camera, and is now grieving on camera. That she chose to speak this openly, about relapse, about isolation, about the raw mechanics of losing a parent, is worth noting in an era when celebrity interviews rarely risk anything real.
Her father co-wrote "Changes" with Black Sabbath in 1972. More than fifty years later, his daughter is living through the kind of change no song prepares you for, and doing it, she says, eight months sober and with a smaller circle of people she trusts.
Some losses don't come with a timeline for recovery. Kelly Osbourne seems to understand that better than the friends who walked away.
