Metal Anarchy

Ozzy Osbourne’s widow Sharon and their children, Kelly and Jack, have just released a new episode of “The Osbournes” podcast. The show finds them opening up about the singer’s death and the outpouring of support they received. The trio also revealed that they even received condolences from U.S. president Donald Trump and the UK’s King Charles III.

Sharon said the following:

“I feel so bad. So many people have reached out to us. I mean, it’s just been overwhelmingly wonderful, everybody’s reaction, for the loss of Ozzy. And it’s just been overwhelming, and I feel so bad. Everybody’s reached out to us that we know that we love, thousands and thousands of people who we’ve never met, and I just want everybody to know that everything that has been sent to us we’ve read, we appreciate.”

Kelly also commented:

“The outpouring of love has been so helpful to us. I never could have even imagined it to be as helpful as it has been, to know that we are not alone in our grief and our sadness, and that the rest of the world loved him as much as we did.”

After Jack asked if all of the love and support “added a different element to it”, Kelly continued:

“I haven’t seen an outpouring like that since Princess Diana died. I didn’t expect it.”

Jack also shared his thoughts:

“But it definitely added a different element to it. For me, it was almost a beautiful, but also unexpected, strange… ‘Cause I said this the other day — I was doing an interview for Dad’s book, and what I said was, when you grow up — every child does this — you’re, like, ‘I wonder what’s gonna happen when my dad’s gonna die. I wonder what’s gonna happen when my mom dies.’ It’s just normal, I think; everyone has those thoughts. And it never crossed my mind that it would impact anyone kind of outside of… I didn’t think it was gonna be like it was.”

Kelly added:

“It wasn’t just the heavy metal community. It was the entire world.”

Sharon went on to say Ozzy had no idea he was so loved:

“I just think, all of it, I just think, my God, Ozzy would just be… It was hard for him to take the show because he didn’t realize how much he was loved, and that was his beauty, because he never took it for granted from anyone. He never took it for granted, ‘I’m this, I’m that.’ He had no idea. He was so living in his bubble. He never had any idea how much people loved him, admired him. Even if they didn’t like his music, they liked him. And he was just larger than life. He was one in a zillion.”

Jack also commented on receiving condolences from Donald Trump:

“Love him or hate him, [Trump] didn’t have to call and leave a voicemail.”

Sharon concurred:

“Listen, when it comes to politics, we know nobody comes out a winner. Whoever you like, half of people are gonna [be unhappy], and now it’s more so than ever in history, that people’s choice of which party, which politician… You can’t come out a winner. All I know is a man that I know, I worked with for a month — I spent one month with him and his wife, who was always gracious, elegant, just a delight to talk to, his wife. And he was always, ‘How are the children? How’s Kelly? I’m so proud of Kelly and Jack for what they’ve done. And their manners are great.’ And he was just a great guy to talk to, and he has always treated me with respect.

Listen, I’m not American. I can’t vote. I don’t wanna vote. I don’t vote for anyone. I vote for no one. Never have, never will. But this thing is, all I know is he’s treated me with respect, your father with respect. He wanted nothing from us — nothing. [His wife] Melania, the same. Nothing. And they have been great. And for him to take his time to do that for us, and because, do you know what? He doesn’t live in a bubble. He knows what’s going on in the streets. He knows what is going on. And I can’t say that for our prime minister [in the United Kingdom]. Again, for President Trump and Melania, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

Jack also mentioned “a lovely letter” they got from King Charles III. Sharon chimed in as well:

“Our King. Now we’re talking. Our King, he’s an amazing person. He is an amazing person. Not just because he wrote to us when Ozzy passed, but if he did it for us, you know he does it for many, many, many people. Now here’s a man that does know what’s going on in the street with people. Not just politics, not just… Here’s a man that cares about the environment, animals. He cares about many, many, many things, and he’s got a good heart. He’s got a good heart. He didn’t have to do certain things that he’s done for Ozzy. In the past — Ozzy’s birthday, when Ozzy was sick in hospital with the motorbike accident, he reached out. He’s a good, caring man with a good heart, and Ozzy’s, as me, we are royalists, and that’s it. We respect him, we respect his family, and that’s it. And he, again, took the time out of his day to write us, have it hand delivered to us, a note from the King for Ozzy’s passing with his condolences, and that says so much.”

[via Blabbermouth]