Ozzy Osbourne ‘hated’ Christmas and once drank 28 gallons of alcohol as the day drew near – as he died in July, this Christmas the first one his wife Sharon, and children will have to spend without him
Ozzy Osbourne “f***ing hated” Christmas – but his family are still struggling as the first holiday without him approaches. The late rocker once said he drank 28 gallons of alcohol to get through December as he disliked the festive period so much.
Speaking on I’m A Celeb in November, Jack Osbourne talked about getting close to Christmas without his father. He said: “The saving grace is, my dad hated Christmas.” He described his father as a “curmudgeon” and mimicked his father’s lack of enthusiasm about the day. According to the podcaster, Ozzy didn’t like that he had to “buy gifts for people I don’t even like”.
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“My dad was a bit of a bah humbug Christmas guy,” Jack said in the Bush Telegraph. “He didn’t love it. He wasn’t mean on Christmas, he just wasn’t dressing up as Santa. He was more Ebenezer Scrooge. But not in a tight way, he was just more, ‘Eh who gives a s***?'”
Last year, the Black Sabbath frontman told The Sun: “I f***ing hate Christmas”. He shared that when he was still drinking, he bought 28 gallons of alcohol and drank it so quickly, he was “drunk before Christmas f***ing Eve”.
Despite Ozzy’s dislike of the holiday, he still seemed to get involved. Towards the end of November, his daughter Kelly posted a heartbreaking video of her father helping to put up the Christmas decorations. In the video, the rockstar swore as he tried to untangle a string of fairy lights, before eventually walking away.
Over the video, Kelly wrote: “We are meant to be putting up the tree today! It won’t be the same [crying emoji]” Ozzy died in July this year after suffering a heart attack.
This came only a few weeks after his band, Black Sabbath, performed their final show in their hometown of Birmingham. His son, Jack called it the “ultimate mic drop”. On I’m A Celeb, he said: “It was the ultimate mic drop, he did a massive big gig and was like, alright I’m done … He’d be so supportive of this … I’m still navigating it all, it’s been three nearly four months and so it’s still pretty fresh.”
Ozzy’s wife, Sharon, has also shared how the death has affected her and what she keeps doing to stay close to him. Talking to The Sun, she said she visits the apple tree he was buried under everyday.
She told The Sun: “Everybody goes down there and has a chat with him. It’s never without candles by his pictures. He’d want to be missed. And he is, so terribly. I mean, it’s not even missed. It’s an ache that you wake up with, and you can’t get rid of that ache. It’s like a big hole inside of you, and the kids feel exactly the same way.
She also told Piers Morgan that her children, Kelly, Jack and Aimee, have been instrumental in helping her get through the loss. “I would have just gone with Ozzy, definitely. I’ve done everything I wanted to do. You know [my children] have been unbelievable, just magnificent with me, all three of them.”
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