Sharon Osbourne facing ‘painful dilemma’ for her future after honouring Ozzy’s wishes

Ozzy Osbourne died in July, aged 76 (Picture: Greg Doherty/Getty Images)

Sharon Osbourne has been faced with a heartbreaking reality after honouring late husband Ozzy’s last wishes.

Osbourne’s family announced his death aged 76, in July, following a long battle with Parkinson’s and other health problems.

The Black Sabbath legend was given a public farewell in his home city of Birmingham, with thousands turning out and lining the streets for a funeral procession which was also attended by Sharon and their children, Jack, Kelly, and Aimee.

Before the metal icon died, he expressed his wishes to be buried under a crabapple tree in the garden of his family’s Buckinghamshire estate, so the kids can make wine out of me and get p****d out of their heads,’ per his 2009 autobiography.

The Daily Mail reports that Sharon fulfilled these wishes, laying Ozzy to rest at Welders House.

And now that Ozzy’s children and grandchildren reside in Los Angeles, it leaves Sharon to grieve alone, with the publication reporting she is torn between returning to the States with her loved ones and staying where Ozzy is.

The Black Sabbath icon expressed his wishes to be buried under an apple tree at their Buckinghamshire home (Picture: Michael Kovac/WireImage) A source has claimed Sharon is struggling between going home to Los Angeles and staying where Ozzy has been laid to rest (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

A source told the publication: ‘Sharon is heartbroken, she thought she would be nursing Ozzy for much longer in the UK. It’s where she thought her short-term future would be while she looked after him.

‘Now she’s sad, she is lonely, she’s a widow. For a while Kelly, Aimee and Jack were around, but the world moves on, they have lives so they gradually left her.’

They said she is facing ‘living a life without the children’, but also finds it ‘so upsetting’ to leave Ozzy.

‘It’s impossible. She can’t cut herself in half and be in both places, but she is so devoted to Ozzy,’ the insider said.

‘She is in a state of pure devastation, her friends hope that she makes the choice to go back to living in America really soon.

‘It’s her birthday soon, and surely she won’t want to be celebrating alone. She needs to hug the family that she loves so much.’

Last month, Sharon revealed the final words Ozzy issued to fans (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) He played his final show just weeks before his death (Picture: David Fisher/Shutterstock)

It comes a month after Sharon revealed Ozzy’s heartbreaking final words about his fans.

Sharon has revealed that following Ozzy’s final June 5 performance – where the frontman reunited with his bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward for their last ever performance at Birmingham’s Villa Park Stadium – he made a moving observation about how many people came out to support.

Sharon told Pollstar of the massive event: ‘It was the first time, I think, that anybody’s gone into retirement and done it, where the show is streamed and it goes to charity.

‘So it’s the first time anybody has said goodnight like that, it’s the perfect way, when you’ve had such a long career, to end it – I never wanted Ozzy to just disappear without some big event.

‘He [Ozzy] turned around and he said to me that night, he said, “I had no idea that so many people liked me.”’

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