Image caption, Sharon Osbourne spoke to BBC News as the family prepares to release a film about Ozzy's final concert with Black Sabbath
Music correspondent Published 1 hour ago It's been 15 months since Ozzy Osbourne died, at the age of 76, at his home in Buckinghamshire.
Although he had suffered from health problems for years, including Parkinson's disease and a fractured vertebra, his death was a shock.
Less than three weeks beforehand, he had been on stage in Birmingham, playing a triumphant farewell concert.
"He was just so, so happy," recalls his wife Sharon.
"He was online, going through the reviews and saying, 'There's something terribly wrong', and I'm like, 'Why?'
"He goes, 'I didn't get slagged by anybody. Why are people being nice to me?'
"And I'm like, 'Because they like you'."
On the morning he died, Ozzy had woken up early and gone downstairs for his usual morning workout. Shortly afterwards, he had a heart attack. An air ambulance was called and paramedics tried to save him. But it was too late.
"We'd spoken in the night. Ozzy had woken in the night and he asked me to kiss him twice, and I did.
"And then he said, 'Hold me, hold me tight,' and I did.
"And then the next thing I know, it's early in the morning, and someone comes rushing into the room saying, 'Come down now'.
Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, pictured in 2017 after renewing their wedding vows
"You've lost the love of your life, so you don't just wake up and go, 'I'm fine now. I'm cured'.
"You never get over it. But you learn to live with it, and that's what I'm trying to do. So you either sit in a room and don't come out, or you accept it, befriend it, and that's it."
The affection among Ozzy's fans was apparent before the singer's funeral. Thousands of people lined the streets of Birmingham, laying floral tributes and singing Black Sabbath songs as Ozzy's body was transported through his home city in a hearse topped by a purple floral tribute in the shape of a cross.
Sharon says he would have been mystified by the outpouring of love.
"He'd have been like, 'What's the matter with you guys? Go home!'" she says.
But for the family, the public response was a huge source of comfort.
Daughter Kelly said last year: "I never could have imagined it to be as helpful as it has been to know that we're not alone in our grief and our sadness, and that the rest of the world loved him as much as we did."
Sharon says the fans' cards and messages were all collected, sorted and photographed; while the flowers were composted for the family garden, where Ozzy is buried.
"There was no way I could put Ozzy in a public graveyard," she says.
"I've seen what happens to other people in the public eye. There's no peace because people want to come and they want to pay their respects. That's an ongoing thing, and I wanted Ozzy to rest and just be."
"Of course, every day. I can see him from my window."
She still talks to him regularly, she says. Asked what she discusses, she puts a finger to her lips and gives a gentle "shh".
Image source, Reuters Image caption, Ozzy's family - including children Jack and Kelly - stopped to read the tributes during his funeral procession last July
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