Kelly Osbourne is reflecting on how dad Ozzy Osbourne’s death affected her overall well-being.
“It’s been the hardest year of my life,” Kelly, 41, shared in an interview with Hello! published on Monday, August 31. “I’ll never be the person I was before my father died … a part of me died, too.”
She continued, “Everything is different. I’m different. Everything has changed, but it’s just taking it one day at a time and putting the pieces back together in a way that you think will work.”
News broke in July 2025 that Ozzy died at age 76. One month later, a death certificate obtained by U.K. outlet The Sun revealed that the singer died from cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease.
In the months since her father’s death, Kelly has faced increased online scrutiny for her physical appearance. When asked how she navigated that time, Kelly admitted, “I didn’t navigate it — I wasn’t well.”
“How can you navigate something so cruel when you’re so sick? I’m getting a lot better. I’ve got all the help I need and I’m grateful for the support I have in my life,” she said. “[I have] this incredible team of people I’ve built around me who are not just my friends, because what you’ll find when you’re grieving is that people don’t know how to handle it, and you do lose a lot of friends. But the ones who stick around are the real ones.”
While continuing to grieve the loss of her father, Kelly shared that her approach is simply putting “one foot in front of the other.”
“You’ve got to fix the head before you can fix the body. It’s a slow process,” she said. “It’s going to take me a minute. I’m not going to be fixed in a day. I’m not going to be fixed on one therapy session. This is a lifetime of work I’ve got to do and continue to do for the rest of my life.”
She continued, “It’s great discovering things about yourself [in therapy], and the reasons why I do certain things that stem from my childhood. You go all the way back and you’re like: ‘Oh, my God, that’s why I do that. That’s crazy.’ I’m getting to know myself in a whole new way, but it’s a lot more healthy, I can tell you that.”
