King Charles III personally reached out to Ozzy Osbourne's household after the late rock legend's loss of life.
Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne revealed on the Wednesday, November 12, episode of the “Osbournes” podcast that Charles, 76, wrote them a private letter following Ozzy's loss of life in July.
“We bought a beautiful letter from the king,” Jack, 40, mentioned.
Sharon, 73, enthusiastically added, “Our king! Now we're speaking!”
“Our king, he's a tremendous individual. Not simply because he wrote to us when Ozzy handed … if he did it for us, you already know he does it for a lot of, many, many individuals,” she mentioned. “Right here's a person who does know what's occurring on the street with individuals, not simply politics. Right here's a person who cares concerning the setting, animals. He cares about many, many, many issues. He's bought a superb coronary heart.”
Sharon mentioned that the monarch “didn't need to do sure issues he's completed for Ozzy,” together with sharing nicely needs for Ozzy's birthday previously.
“When Ozzy was sick in hospital with the motorcycle accident, he reached out,” Sharon mentioned. “He's a superb, caring man with a superb coronary heart. Ozzy, as me… we're royalists. We respect him, we respect his household. We respect. He took the outing of his day to write down us, have it hand-delivered to us, a observe from the king for Ozzy's passing along with his condolences. And that claims a lot.”
Kelly, 41, shared that she additionally obtained a handwritten letter from late-night speak present host Jimmy Fallon. “There's so many individuals that we are able to go on and on and on about that I by no means anticipated to listen to from,” she mentioned.
Ozzy died on July 22 at age 76 after a yearslong battle with Parkinson's illness.
“It's with extra disappointment than mere phrases can convey that now we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning,” his household informed Us Weekly in a press release on the time. “He was along with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness at the moment.”
In a September YouTube video, Jack opened up about discovering out about his father's loss of life whereas in Los Angeles. (Ozzy died in his native U.Okay.)
“I awoke in Los Angeles to a knock at my home door, at round 3:45 within the morning. Somebody who's labored for my household for most likely 30 years now was knocking on my door. Once I regarded by my window and noticed it was him, I simply knew one thing dangerous had occurred,” Jack mentioned.
He continued, “I used to be knowledgeable that my father had handed. … Instantly, I don't know … simply ache. Unhappiness and ache. So many ideas. You undergo this of like, feeling unhappy and pissed off and offended. … However there was a stage of like, OK, he's not struggling anymore, he's not struggling, and that's one thing.”
“I want he was nonetheless right here. I want he was nonetheless with us all, however he was having a tough go, and I feel individuals noticed that on the present,” Jack added, referring to Ozzy's look throughout his Black Sabbath's last efficiency in Birmingham, England, simply weeks earlier than his loss of life.
