Metal Anarchy

Sharon Osbourne has denied the recent reports claiming her late husband Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath raised $190 million for charity during their farewell show. She told Pollstar that the various stories are “just ridiculous.”

Sharon said the following during the interview, which was conducted before Ozzy’s death:

“One of the things that’s frightening me is all this false press about [how], we’ve made $140 million and all of this, and I’m like, God, I wish we could have, for one gig. It’s just ridiculous, the different stories. I went on the internet the next morning and it was like, $140 million, $160 million. And I’m like, Where does this stuff come from?”

It takes a really long time [to arrive at the final number that will be donated to charity], because we’ve had all of the bands that we had come in and their expenses, and it’ll take a good six weeks to get the final number.”

She continued after it was mentioned how the “reports are not helpful for the Children’s Hospital to see”:

“Oh my God! It’s the Children’s Hospital, a children’s hospice, and Parkinson’s research. Everybody thinks that they’re going to cure everything with this much money, but it’s not the real world.”

However, she went on to say that the event was a success:

“It was a phenomenal event. It was the first time, I think, that anybody’s gone into retirement and done it, where the show is streamed and it goes to charity. So it’s the first time anybody has said goodnight like that, it’s the perfect way, when you’ve had such a long career, to end it. I never wanted Ozzy to just disappear without some big event.”