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“I don’t think you ever truly knew the impact you had on this world. I certainly didn’t until you were gone,” wrote Kelly in a letter shared to Instagram
Kelly Osbourne is honoring her late father, Ozzy Osbourne.
The 41-year-old TV personality honored the one-year anniversary of the Black Sabbath icon’s death at age 76 with an emotional letter shared to Instagram on Wednesday, July 22.
“One year ago today, the world changed forever,” began Kelly. “Today I sit here beside you in a way I never thought would be possible. I know you are still with me. I feel you in the quiet, in the wind, in every song that stops me in my tracks, is the smell of your cologne and in every moment that love outweighs grief. You are all around me.”
“The hardest part isn’t that you’re gone,” she wrote. “The hardest part is that I can’t touch you. I can’t hold your hand. I can’t wrap my arms around you or feel the safety that only you could give me. I always thought life was hard, but life without you has been the hardest thing I have ever had to endure. You are my everything. My protector. My greatest teacher. My best friend. The apple of my eye. My reason.”
Kelly noted that she’s now left with only the “beautiful memories” of Ozzy. “Even through all the madness we lived through, you somehow made every moment worthwhile,” she said. “You taught me that love could exist in the simplest things.”
“I have never loved anyone or anything as deeply as uniquely as I love you. And now I carry all of that love with nowhere to place it except within me, my son, and mumma,” continued Kelly, referring to her 3-year-old son Sidney (shared with Sid Wilson) as well as her mom, Sharon Osbourne. “It aches every single day, but it is also the greatest privilege of my life. To have loved someone so completely.”
She wrote about wishing Ozzy “could see” his grandson now. “Oh, Daddy, you would adore the little man he is becoming,” added the “One Word” singer, who said she sees Ozzy’s “smile,” “spirit” and “mannerisms” in Sid. “Sometimes it stops me in my tracks because it feels as though you’ve found a way to remind me that love never truly leaves us. Seeing you reflected in him is one of the greatest gifts I have ever been given.”
Kelly then turned her attention to Ozzy’s relationship with his fans. “I don’t think you ever truly knew the impact you had on this world. I certainly didn’t until you were gone,” she said. “Person after person came forward with stories of the hope you gave them, the kindness you showed them, the strength you inspired in them. You changed lives simply by being yourself and the beautiful timeless music you created.”
Describing Ozzy as a “true working-class hero who never forgot where he came from,” Kelly praised her father for making fans believe “life could be better” due to witnessing his “honesty, loyalty, courage, humor, and a heart bigger than anyone realized.”
“There will never be another you,” continued Kelly. “You carried something extraordinary inside you, a kind of magic that felt heaven- sent, and I will spend the rest of my life feeling grateful that I got to call you my daddy.”
The letter concluded with Kelly explaining she’s felt “broken” in many ways over the past year. “Everything you warned me would happen, happened. But I want you to know that I listened,” she wrote. “I did everything you told me to do, and I will continue to follow your words for the rest of my life. Your voice still guides me every day.”
The “Crazy Train” artist died on July 22, 2025. A death certificate obtained by PEOPLE at the time noted that Ozzy died of “out of hospital cardiac arrest” and “acute myocardial infarction,” with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction listed as “joint causes.”
Earlier this month, Kelly got a tattoo of the round glasses her father was long known for wearing to honor his life.
Ozzy’s U.K. hometown of Birmingham is celebrating the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member with the first-ever “Ozzy Day” on Wednesday, July 22.
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