Kelly Osbourne quietly sang “Mama, I’m Coming Home” on her father’s worn acoustic guitar on the evening of July 22, inside their family home in Buckinghamshire — a home where Ozzy’s voice once echoed through every hallway. There was no stage. No spotlight. Only the warmth of flickering candles, the low creak of wooden floors, and the quiet presence of family and a few close friends. The air was thick with memory and grief. Kelly stepped into the room like she was stepping back in time. She sat on a simple wooden stool in front of the empty armchair her father always used, the same spot where he used to hum melodies in the dark when the rest of the world had gone to sleep. The guitar in her lap still bore the fingerprints of his final rehearsals — faint smudges on faded wood. Her voice was soft but steady, her hands gentle as she began to play. “This song,” she said, her voice catching in her throat, “was once a gift he sang for my mother. Tonight, I want to sing it again… for the great father who raised me.”.. WATCH VIDEO BELOW

Anyone who has lost a beloved parent knows that the grief is unlike any other. It is a strange thought, moving about the world without one of the people who brought you into it. For the Osbournes, losing patriarch Ozzy Osbourne at just 76, it’s just the beginning of navigating those huge feelings.

Though diagnosed in 2003, Ozzy only recently in 2020 announced to the world that he had Parkinson’s, and as it progressed the family had to come to grips with his decline. For Kelly Osbourne, the inevitable loss was a reality she was admittedly terrified to navigate. Just a few months ago in October, she confessed to Us Weekly what the anticipatory grief felt like

My biggest fear is losing a member of my family because we are such a unit and so close that we’re nothing without the other,” she told the outlet. “You know, Parkinson’s is really tricky. We don’t know good days from bad days until you’re in it.”

She also commented on what it was like facing that reality as a daughter.

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“I always look at my parents as being so invincible. And then all of a sudden you realize that, like, oh, they’re fragile and they’re a little lost. And now it’s my job to show them the way.”

Fans expressed so much sympathy for Kelly and the other Osbournes who were navigating this intense loss.

“I can’t imagine how much her heart and soul are hurting,” wrote one empathetic fan.

“They have been on my mind all day, their show may have been crazy at times but it was obvious how close they all were and how much Ozzy adored his family. Oh poor Sharon,” noted

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