Sharon Osbourne pals fear for her 'fragile' health as she's overwhelmed by grief: 'Ozzy was her life'

Loved ones fear Sharon Osbourne may not recover

Friends close to the family are deeply alarmed by Osbourne's state, both physically and emotionally. After losing over four stone following a brief stint with the weight-loss drug Ozempic in 2023, she has struggled to regain weight and strength.

Despite discontinuing the medication, doctors have reportedly been unable to help her put the weight back on.

“Sharon is very, very fragile. She is so thin. She is not well. We are all terrified for her health at this point,” a family friend told the Daily Mail.

“This is the heaviest blow. Ozzy was her life. The whole point of her life was him. They were each other’s best friend. We don’t know what she will do or how she will cope.”

Plans for Ozzy’s funeral are underway, but sources close to Sharon believe she may opt for an intimate, private burial at their 350-acre estate.

“We think she may want to bury him privately at home, in the garden,” said one insider.

“I don’t know if she will feel strong enough to have a big memorial for all the people who want to say goodbye to him,” they added. Sharon reportedly wanted to bring Ozzy back to the UK from Los Angeles so he could live out his final weeks at home, and she succeeded, despite his fragile condition and reliance on a wheelchair since February.

A final Ozzy Osbourne performance against all odds

The singer's emotional final appearance at Villa Park earlier this month was, by all accounts, a miracle in motion. Seated on a black throne with wings, he told the crowd of 42,000 fans, “I don’t know what to say, man, I’ve been laid up for like six years… You have no idea how I feel, thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Behind the scenes, however, family and friends feared he might not survive the night. “He was in so much pain, he had some very bad days,” a friend shared. “He knew for a while that he was on borrowed time really. He was so ill that, in that rock and roll tradition, he could have died on stage.”

Instead, he passed peacefully 17 days later at home, surrounded by Sharon and four of his children, Louis, Aimee, Jack, and Kelly.

Sharon Osbournes’ battle with health, grief and image

Osbourne has been vocal about her lifelong struggles with body image and health. Diagnosed with colon cancer in 2002, she underwent surgery and chemotherapy, choosing to continue filming 'The Osbournes' even while enduring treatment.

“Because I didn’t want my kids and my husband to know how sick I was,” she told Metal Hammer. “When you say ‘cancer’, everybody always thinks ‘death’… So I took the treatment quietly. I didn’t want my kids to have fear constantly surrounding them.”

Last year, she revealed that Ozempic led to significant weight loss she couldn’t reverse. “I couldn’t stop losing weight,” Sharon admitted. “I think it’s just because I’m getting older and… shrink and shrivel off.”

The couple met in 1970 when she was just 18. They married in 1982 and built a chaotic but enduring empire, from rock stardom and reality TV fame to surviving addiction, betrayal, and even attempted murder.

In 1989, Ozzy, under the influence, attempted to strangle her. “It was probably the most frightened I’ve ever been,” Sharon recalled. “But he went to rehab eventually. These things happen.”

Sharon and Ozzy renewed vows, celebrated decades together

They separated briefly in 2016 after Ozzy’s repeated infidelities, but reconciled and renewed their vows in 2017.

In 2022, they celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Sharon wrote, “Over 52 years we have been friends, lovers, husband and wife, grandparents and soulmates. Always at each other’s side. I love you Ozzy.”

Just last year, Ozzy spoke candidly about the all-consuming love and chaos that defined their relationship, “Sharon is like my soulmate, sometimes I love her, sometimes I don’t love her… but at the end of the day, I love her more than anything in the world. Put it this way: I couldn’t live without her. I don’t wanna live without her.”

Now, with Ozzy gone, the fear is that Sharon feels exactly the same, and may not survive without him, “She’s just not the same without him,” said one close friend. “She lived for him. And now he’s gone.”