Sharon Osbourne is taking one step at a time. Almost five months after her husband Ozzy Osbourne's passing following a battle with Parkinson's disease, the 73-year-old has shared her contemplation of ending her own life. "I would have just gone with Ozzy," Sharon told Piers Morgan on the December 10 episode of his show, Piers Morgan Uncensored. "Oh, yeah, definitely, I've done everything I ever wanted to do."
However, her children, Aimee Osbourne (42), Kelly Osbourne (41), and Jack Osbourne (40), have given her a reason to continue on in life. As Sharon put it, "They've been unbelievably magnificent with me, all three of them."
While the former Talk cohost has continued to cope following the death of the Black Sabbath frontman, she previously detailed in her 2007 memoir Survivor: My Story - The Next Chapter that the couple made an assisted suicide pact in the event that either of them were diagnosed with a life-altering brain disease. "We believe 100 percent in euthanasia," Sharon told the Daily Mirror at the time, "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. If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer’s, that’s it—we’d be off." She added, "We gathered the kids around the kitchen table, told them our wishes, and they’ve all agreed to go with it."
In 2014, Ozzy told the publication that the pact had expanded to include any "life-threatening condition." While Kelly recently referred to her mom's suicide pact with Ozzy as "bulls--t my mom said to get attention one time," Sharon has her own reasons for going back on the pledge.
The America's Got Talent judge explained that she had a change of heart "years ago" after she "went into a little facility" for what she called "one of my mental breakdowns" and met two women. "There were two girls in there—they didn’t know each other, but they were in there—each mother had committed suicide," she continued to Piers. "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.'"
As for how Sharon is handling her day-to-day life after losing her husband of 43 years, she described herself as "OK-ish." "Grief has now become my friend," she said. "Grief is very weird to me. 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."
