Kelly Osbourne Opens Up About Grief After Father's Death

Kelly Osbourne has opened up about the profound toll her father's death has taken on her life, describing the past year as an unprecedented period of hardship and transformation.

In an interview published Monday, August 31, the 41-year-old reflected on how losing Ozzy Osbourne has fundamentally altered her existence. The rock legend died in July 2025 at age 76, and his daughter acknowledged that the loss has left permanent marks on her identity.

"It's been the hardest year of my life," Kelly Osbourne told Hello! magazine. "I'll never be the person I was before my father died … a part of me died, too."

She elaborated on the comprehensive nature of this change, stating that every aspect of her world has shifted. "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," she told Hello!.

According to a death certificate obtained by U.K. outlet The Sun one month after Ozzy Osbourne's passing, the musician died from cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson's disease.

Compounding her grief, Kelly Osbourne has faced heightened online scrutiny regarding her physical appearance in the months following her father's death. When asked how she managed that additional pressure, her response was stark and honest.

"I didn't navigate it — I wasn't well," she told Hello!.

She described the impossibility of managing cruelty while simultaneously dealing with profound illness and loss. "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 told Hello!.

Kelly Osbourne emphasized the importance of her support network during this period, noting that grief has a way of revealing true friendships. "[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," she told Hello!.

Her approach to moving forward remains deliberately measured and focused on incremental progress. She described her strategy as simply putting "one foot in front of the other," acknowledging that recovery from such profound loss cannot be rushed.

"You've got to fix the head before you can fix the body. It's a slow process," she told Hello!. "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."