Sharon Osbourne reveals why she chose to keep living despite a pact with Ozzy

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: The widow of late rock star Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, who once made an assisted suicide pact with him, has opened up about why she didn’t follow through. 

Ozzy died on July 22 at the age of 76 from a heart attack and had a history of coronary artery disease, as well as years of living with Parkinson’s disease. Sharon also shared her feelings following her husband’s death.

Sharon Osbourne recalls a moment that made her want to keep living

During an interview on 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' on Wednesday, December 10, Sharon, 73, said her three children, Aimee, Kelly, and Jack, gave her the reason to keep living.

She revealed, “I would have just gone with Ozzy. Oh, yeah, definitely, I’ve done everything I wanted to do. But they’ve been... unbelievably, just magnificent with me, all three of them."

Sharon then recalled a moment that made her realize she could never leave her children behind. “Years ago, when I had one of my mental breakdowns, I went into a little facility to help with my head,” she said.

She explained, "There were two girls over there. They didn’t know each other, but they were in there, each [of their] mothers had committed suicide. I saw the state that these two young women were in and what it had done to their lives, and I thought, I will never, ever, ever do that to my kids."

Elsewhere in the interview, Sharon spoke candidly about coping with her husband’s death. “Grief has now become my friend. Grief is very weird to me, you know, when you love someone that much and you’re grieving for them, it’s what I have to live with, and I’ll get used to it. I will, I have to, you know, things move on."

When did Sharon Osbourne speak about the assisted suicide pact?

Sharon Osbourne first spoke about the assisted suicide pact in her 2007 memoir, 'Survivor: My Story – The Next Chapter.'

She wrote that she and Ozzy planned to go to Dignitas, a physician-assisted suicide organization in Switzerland, if either of them developed dementia. Sharon said the idea came after her father, Don Arden, died from Alzheimer’s disease in 2007.

In a 2007 interview with the Daily Mirror, Sharon said, "We believe 100 percent in euthanasia. so [we] have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains."

She said they discussed the decision with their children, who understood and accepted their wishes. "If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer’s, that’s it — we’d be off. We gathered the kids around the kitchen table, told them our wishes and they’ve all agreed to go with it.”

Ozzy Osbourne later expanded on the pact in a 2014 interview with the Daily Mirror, saying "If I can't live my life the way I'm living it now — and I don't mean financially — then that's it...[Switzerland]. If I can't get up and go to the bathroom myself and I've got tubes up my a** and an enema in my throat, then I've said to Sharon, 'Just turn the machine off.'"

Ozzy added, " If I had a stroke and was paralyzed, I don't want to be here. I've made a will and it's all going to Sharon if I die before her, so ultimately it will all go to the kids."