Jack Osbourne mourned the loss of his dad, Ozzy Osbourne, two weeks after the rocker died at age 76.
The 39-year-old hadn’t “really wanted to post anything” about his late father, he admitted via Instagram Wednesday.
“My heart has hurt too much,” he explained, noting that he was “gonna keep this short because [Ozzy] certainly hated long rambling speeches.”
Jack continued, “He was so many things to so many people, but I was so lucky and blessed to be apart of a very small group that got to call him ‘Dad.’ My heart is full of so much sadness and sorrow, but also so much love and gratitude. I got 14,501 days with that man and I know that is such a blessing.”
He went on to share a Hunter S. Thompson quote “that best describes” Ozzy.
The statement read, “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body…but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a ride!’”
Jack concluded, “That was my dad. He lived and he lived his life fully. I love you dad.”
The touching tribute included a video of never-before-seen moments between the father-son pair, as well as Ozzy and his grandkids.
Jack, 39, was Ozzy’s only son with Sharon Osbourne, whom the musician married in 1982. The couple also shared daughters Aimée Osbourne, 41, and Kelly Osbourne, 40.
Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly had a close bond, which was captured in front of cameras on their MTV reality show, “The Osbournes,” for four seasons from 2002 to 2005. Aimée, who has been notoriously private, refused to appear on the show and was critical of the series.
The Black Sabbath frontman also shared three children — Elliot, 59, Jessica, 53, and Louis, 50 — with his first wife, Thelma Riley, to whom he was married from 1971 to 1982.
Jack, his mom and his siblings confirmed the news of Ozzy’s death on July 22. The patriarch was 76.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the family told Page Six in a statement.
Ozzy was “with his family and surrounded by love” at the time of his passing.
“We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time,” they added in the statement.
Ozzy died just two weeks after he performed his last concert with Black Sabbath in Birmingham, England. He had reunited with his band two years after announcing he was retiring from touring.
The farewell gig, featuring performances by Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and Jack Black, came amid rampant rumors that he was dying — which Kelly denied in mid-July.
In 2020, the “Paranoid” singer revealed that he had quietly been battling Parkinson’s disease for more than 15 years.
At the time, Sharon said that he had stage 2 Parkinson’s disease, but that it was “not a death sentence by any stretch of the imagination.”
The progressive nervous system disorder affects movement and has no cure, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Ozzy also struggled with chronic pain after having multiple surgeries in his neck and spine over the years.
Black Sabbath mourned the loss of their co-founder on July 22, writing in the caption of an Instagram post, “Ozzy Forever.”
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