For the first time since his death, Ozzy Osbourne’s son, Jack Osbourne, is speaking out on social media.
On Wednesday, Aug. 6, Jack took to Instagram to say he hasn’t “really wanted to post anything since the passing of my father. My heart has hurt too much.”
“I’m gonna keep this short because he 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,” he added. “I got 14,501 days with that man and I know that is such a blessing.”
Jack then shared a quote he believes “best describes my father.”
“Hunter S. Thompson once said: ‘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!’”
“That was my dad,” Jack said. “He lived and he lived his life fully. I love you dad.”
Jack’s statement comes after his wife, Aree Osbourne, shared a statement of her own on Aug. 3.
“I’m pretty sure I have the coolest father-in-law around, and the best papa to my kids,” she wrote, alongside pictures of their family. “The world got a rockstar but we got an ice lolly loving, goofy, big hearted guy who made us laugh like no other.”
“He was always in my corner and I forever am thankful to him for raising my husband and blessing me with my family. We got Nana always, Papa,” Aree said of her mother-in-law, Sharon Osbourne.
“Keep giving us all those signs from above. We’ll keep your name loud, your stories alive, and your love wrapped around us like armor. Forever our guy.”
Jack’s sister, Kelly Osbourne, also shared a statement, writing in part that she “sat down to write this a hundred times and still don’t know if the world will ever feel like enough. But from the bottom of my heart, thank you.”
Ozzy was laid to rest on July 30. His cause of death has been labeled as “out of hospital cardiac arrest” and “acute myocardial infarction.” Coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction were listed as “joint causes.”
