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Sharon Osbourne is opening up about the heartbreaking final moments she shared with her late husband, rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, before his passing in July.

In an emotional interview on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” the 73-year-old recalled how the night before his death, Ozzy woke her up in the early morning hours. “He was up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was like 4:30 a.m., and he said, ‘Wake up.’ I said, ‘I’m already bloody awake, you’ve woken me up,’” she said. “And he said, ‘Kiss me.’ And then he said, ‘Hug me tight.’”

Those tender words would be among the last he spoke to her. Sharon shared that the following morning, Ozzy went downstairs to work out, but tragedy soon struck. “I ran downstairs, and there he was, and they were trying to resuscitate him, and I’m like, ‘Don’t — just leave him. Leave him. You can’t. He’s gone,’” she recalled through tears. “And they tried and tried, and then they took him by helicopter to the hospital … and it’s like, ‘He’s gone. Just leave him.’”

The Black Sabbath frontman, who had battled Parkinson’s disease since 2019, died at 76 on July 22. Sharon said she “knew instantly” he was gone and that he had been “ready” after confiding in her about strange dreams he’d been having. “He had told me that he was having dreams in the last week of his life. He was seeing people that he never knew,” she said. “He goes, ‘All different people. And I just keep walking and walking, and I’m seeing all these different people every night … and they’re looking at me, and nobody’s talking.’ And he knew. He was ready.”

Despite being gravely ill, Ozzy gave one last performance in Birmingham, England, less than two weeks before his death — a 10-hour farewell concert featuring Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, and Jack Black. Doctors had warned him not to do it. “The main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it,’” Sharon revealed. But Ozzy refused to back down, telling her he wanted to finish strong.

“He was in so much pain,” she added. “He’d had pneumonia three times this year. He’d had sepsis. That’s what really, really destroyed him.”

Still, the show brought him immense joy. “He was so happy afterwards,” Sharon said. “He kept looking at the papers and goes, ‘I never knew so many people liked me.’ He knew he was famous, but not how much people loved him.”

For Sharon, their final weeks together were filled with light. “Every day was like sunshine,” she said softly. “He was so happy.”

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