Ozzy Osbourne’s publicity-shy daughter Aimee gives rare interview about late dad’s ‘painful’ health battle
She’s in the spotlight.
Aimee Osbourne, 42, Ozzy and Sharon’s publicity-shy daughter who famously didn’t appear in the family’s hit reality show “The Osbournes,” gave a rare interview about her father in a new documentary.
Called “Ozzy: No Escape From Now” and premiering Tues. Oct. 7 on Paramount+, the two-hour documentary covers the rock icon’s final six years, leading up to his death in July 2025 at age 76.
“He was in great distress and a lot of pain…. I can’t imagine many people are used to seeing their parents like that,” Aimee said in the doc.
She was referring to Ozzy’s health battle after he sustained a fall in Feb. 2018 and had to be hospitalized. The rock icon died from cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease.
As the documentary covers, in his final years, the “Iron Man” singer was in and out of the hospital, dealing with mobility issues, surgeries, pneumonia, and sepsis – and still recording Grammy-winning albums and performing.
Sharon, 72, and daughter Kelly, 40, and son Jack, 39, also weighed in to talk about the “Black Sabbath” frontman.
However, Aimee’s candid and emotional input was especially notable, since she rarely speaks publicly.
Aimee said that Ozzy’s health struggles after his 2018 fall and hospitalization were “quite shocking,” because “he’s had so many accidents that I’ve witnessed.”
She added, “But you could tell this one was not one he was necessarily going to get away with in the same way.”
Aimee made it clear that even though she wasn’t in the spotlight with the rest of her family, she was by her father’s side during this time.
“He was in hospital for weeks,” she recalled of the 2018 incident. She added that the Prince of Darkness was “traumatized” about “not being able to bounce back like he had in the past,” and that having to cancel his 2019 world tour was “his biggest heartbreak” and was “soul-destroying, for him.”
Per Paramount, this documentary was never intended to be a posthumous project.
“Ozzy: No Escape From Now” also gives a behind the scenes at the making of his 2020 album “Ordinary Man” and his Grammy winning 2022 album “Patient Number 9,” his 2022 appearance with Black Sabbath to perform at the the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in the UK amid his health issues, his 2024 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and his July farewell concert in Birmingham shortly before his death.
In the documentary, Kelly recalled, “My dad will never get over being fired from Black Sabbath. It destroyed him. Those were his brothers.”
However, Aimee’s perspective was slightly different from her sister’s.
Referring to his 1979 firing from the band, Aimee said, “I don’t really know the details, but I would imagine in part it had something to do with the substance abuse at the time. But, I would imagine it’s probably quite layered.”
Aimee has a strained relationship with her siblings.
“We’re not close at all,” Jack said on a July episode of the “Disrespectfully” podcast that came out a week before Ozzy’s death.
He added about his oldest sister, “We don’t have a great relationship. She’ll be the first to tell you that, so it’s no secret.”
In a 2002 interview with Barbara Walters, Aimee said, “My private life to me is very important.”
Regarding her decision to stay out of their hit MTV reality show “The Osbournes,” she told The Independent in 2015, “I still felt I was trying to figure out who I was in the chaos of family life, so why on earth would I want that portrayed on television?”
Aimee added about her siblings, “I wouldn’t say there is an ease between us, but there is an acceptance. Do we socialize? No.”
During a 2021 interview on the “Armchair Expert” podcast, Kelly said that she and Aimee “don’t talk.”
The former “Fashion Police” co-host added, “We’re just really different. She doesn’t understand me. I don’t understand her.”
In the doc, the sisters gave separate interviews and were not shown onscreen together. They both agreed, however, that Ozzy’s health battle was tough on Sharon, too.
“I think what’s happening to my mom is the most heartbreaking part of this whole thing,” Kelly said.
“Watching the man that she loves most in this world wither was really hard.”
Aimee’s sentiment was similar. About her famous parents, she noted, “They were both so used to the ‘go go go’ and I think for that to be taken away at such a drastic level has been heartbreaking and terrifying,” she said, referring to the couple slowing down as Ozzy developed mobility issues.
“My mom’s role has been maintaining control of all the moving parts of this,” said Aimee. “To have those things essentially break away has been extremely painful.”
Aimee also described her father as “quite naughty sometimes.”
But, she added that she can’t help but find him “endearing.”
“Ozzy: No Escape From Now” premieres Tues. Oct. 7 on Paramount+.
