On the one-year anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne’s passing, his daughter Kelly Osbourne has shared a heartfelt message about grief and her life after the death of her iconic father.
Kelly has been open about her struggles following Ozzy’s passing on July 22nd of last year. At the end of 2025, she posted a video on Instagram reacting to comments about her dramatic weight loss, saying, “To the people who keep thinking they’re being funny and mean by writing comments like ‘Are you ill,’ or ‘Get off Ozempic, you don’t look right.’ My dad just died, and I’m doing the best that I can, and the only thing I have to live for right now is my family.”
In a new Instagram post marking one year since Kelly lost Ozzy, she opens up about her grief, saying not only does she miss her dad, but she misses the person she was before his passing:
“What I’ve come to know about grief in the last year!
I don’t just mourn the father I lost. I mourn the soul I was before death taught my heart its own name.
There is a grief that steals more than the person you love. It quietly takes the light from your laughter, the innocence from your hope, and the stranger you become is someone you’ll spend a lifetime trying to recognize. People think grief is missing someone who is gone, but the deepest sorrow is waking each day longing for the version of yourself who died with them.
Grief is a language no one truly speaks until life forces it upon them.
It cannot be explained, borrowed, or imagined. You only understand its endless ache when you’ve stood in the unbearable silence, carrying a love that has nowhere left to go.
I miss who I was before my daddy died. Before my heart became a home for absence. Before every memory became both a blessing and a wound. Some losses don’t simply break you. They divide your life into two people. The one you were before, and the one left behind.
And perhaps that is grief’s cruelest truth. Not that death takes the ones we love, but that it leaves us living as ghosts of the people we used to be.”
Tributes have been pouring in for Ozzy on the one-year anniversary of his passing, including messages from each of the surviving original members of Black Sabbath.
See Kelly Osbourne’s Instagram post below.
