Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimee has given a heartbreaking insight into the rock legend’s final years.
The 42-year-old, – who up until now has shunned the spotlight and been known as the ‘quiet Osbourne’ – now appears in a new documentary Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now on Paramount Plus.
Breaking her silence on her family she appears extensively in the two-hour long feature length documentary about her father Ozzy, the legendary Black Sabbath frontman who died aged 76 in July.
The new documentary features for the first time the full Osbourne clan, including Ozzy and Sharon, and their three children: Aimee, Kelly, 40 and Jack, 39.
Including footage recorded before the legendary rocker’s death, it charts his final six years as he battles a litany of health problems.
Known as the ‘silent’ Osbourne, Aimee has, according to reports, not had the easiest relationship with her mother and siblings – particularly Kelly – over the years.
Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimee has given a heartbreaking insight into the rock legend’s final years.
The 42-year-old, – who up until now has shunned the spotlight and been known as the ‘quiet Osbourne’ – now appears in a new documentary Ozzy Osbourne : No Escape From Now on Paramount Plus (seen with Ozzy in 2003)
However she has now spoken openly about her father’s final years in the new documentary.
In one piece to camera she recalled her father’s fall in 2019 that left him hospitalized and needing surgery.
At the time Ozzy postponed all his scheduled tour dates and was forced to cancel remaining appearances after the fall at his LA home aggravated a previous neck and spine injury from a 2003 quad bike accident.
In the documentary Aimee says he was ‘traumatized’ and unable to ‘bounce back’ after the health problems which gave him the ‘biggest heartbreak’ after he had to cancel the tour.
Aimee says of the hard times that followed: ‘We’re kind of raised to believe doctors are superheroes in a way, and although they’re very skilled – some of them – a lot of them don’t really have the answers.
‘He was in hospital for weeks. I think just in a lot of shock, also traumatised, to fall like that and then go through that, and then not be able to bounce back like he had in the past, and then having to cancel the tour, that was really, I think, his biggest heartbreak.’
Ozzy’s wife Sharon says in the documentary; ‘After three months we brought him home, but the pain just never subsided.
‘It was unbearable constantly, and I know Ozzy’s a drama queen. He’ll do anything for a pain pill, but it was for real.’
Pictured centre at Ozzy’s funeral in July, with mum Sharon and sister Kelly (far left)
‘You can’t enjoy anything,’ added Ozzy of his tough recovery.
Aimee was the only Osbourne who was determined to avoid the spotlight.
So much so that as the cameras moved into the family’s sprawling Beverly Hills mansion, Aimee Osbourne, who was then just 16, moved out.
While MTV’s The Osbournes, which launched in 2002, catapulted her younger siblings Kelly and Jack to worldwide fame, Aimee stayed in the shadows, refusing to be drawn into the world of reality television.
At one stage, the sisters weren’t on speaking terms, with Kelly admitting in an interview they just ‘didn’t understand each other’.
Yet Aimee was there for Ozzy’s final days, and joined the rest of her family for the documentary in a touching show of unity, as they describe how the iconic rocker battled ill health for years.
After his fall he was diagnosed with a genetic form of Parkinson’s Disease, and never recovered full mobility.
In the show, Ozzy reveals for the first time how, at one point, he sank into a deep depression, which left him suicidal.
In a typically witty, expletive-ridden message from the grave, we hear Ozzy describing the dark thoughts that stalked him.
The new documentary features for the first time the full Osbourne clan, including Ozzy and Sharon, and their three children: Aimee, Kelly, 40 and Jack, 39
In one piece to camera Aimee recalled her father’s fall in 2019 that left him hospitalized and needing surgery (seen in 2004)
‘The thought of not doing gigs anymore. I went into a dark place. I’m on antidepressants now actually because I was getting ready to off myself.’
But with his trademark humour he adds: ‘But then I thought, ‘What are you f***king talking about?’ Because knowing me, I’d do it and I’d be half dead … I’d set myself on fire and I wouldn’t die. That’s my luck.’
Aimee calmly summarises the situation, saying: ‘He’s had many accidents that I’ve witnessed, but you could tell this was not one he was necessarily going to get away with in the same way.’
Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now is available to stream on Paramount Plus from October 7.
