OSBOURNE DIDN’T WEEP FOR DAD
OZZY OSBOURNE’s wife SHARON found it impossible to mourn her father’s dea th in 2007 - because they endured a turbulent relationship for decades.
The rock matriarch had a troubled union with her dad, Don Arden, who pr eviously managed Ozzy’s band Black Sabbath, and she fell out with him aft er he fired the singer from the group in 1979.
Sharon didn’t speak to her father for 20 years and refused to let him m eet his grandchildren - Aimee, Kelly and Jack - for more than two decades ..
The pair began to repair their relationship in 2001, but in 2004 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and passed away three years later.
Osbourne found it impossible to cry after the tragedy - but was thankfu l they mended their fractured relationship before Arden died.
She says, "I believe I did the right thing by him, in the end. He gave me a lot, really. He gave me a great education in life and the work ethic I have now.
"When he died, I had him sent back to the U.K. to be buried and I sat w ith his body in the mortuary… but I didn’t cry - I just couldn’t, becau se I had cried over years and years."
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