For more than two decades, Aimee Osbourne has been a ghost in one of pop culture’s most televised families – until now.
When MTV’s The Osbournes burst onto screens in 2002, transforming a heavy metal dynasty into unlikely reality stars, Aimee – then just sixteen- quietly moved out of the family’s Beverly Hills mansion.
The cameras rolled, her siblings Kelly and Jack became instant celebrities, and the world met Sharon and Ozzy in all their chaotic glory.
Aimee, meanwhile, chose anonymity. Now, she’s broken her silence following the death of her father.
This October, she steps into the frame for the first time in Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now, a two-hour documentary chronicling her father’s final years.
The film, which premieres on Paramount+ on October 7, captures the twilight of one of rock’s great survivors, as Ozzy battles a series of devastating health crises in the years leading up to his death in July, aged 76.
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Aimee has largely existed on the margins of the family mythology. Reports of tension, especially with her mother Sharon and sister Kelly, have followed her since her teenage years.
But No Escape From Now shows something different: Aimee by her father’s side, joining the rest of the family in candid interviews and archival footage that trace Ozzy’s long decline from that fateful night in 2019 when he fell in their Los Angeles home, breaking his neck.
In a clip from the show, Ozzy can be heard revealing that he struggled with suicidal feelings after the accident.
He says: ‘But then I thought, “What are you f***king talking about?” Because knowing me, I’d do it and I’d be half dead … I’d set myself on fire and I wouldn’t die. That’s my luck.’
Aimee shares her perspective: ‘He’s had many accidents that I’ve witnessed, but you could tell this was not one he was necessarily going to get away with in the same way.’
Already weakened by decades of substance abuse and the lingering damage from a near-fatal quad bike crash in 2003, Ozzy’s health began to spiral.
Soon after, he was diagnosed with a rare genetic form of Parkinson’s disease, losing much of his mobility. For a man whose entire being was built on stage energy and excess, it was a particular tragedy.
Aimee continues in the doc: ‘He was in hospital for weeks.’
‘I think just in a lot of shock, also traumatised, to fall like that and then go through that, and then not be able to bounce back like he had in the past, and then having to cancel the tour, that was really, I think, his biggest heartbreak.’
At another point, Aimee comments on how her mother, Sharon, adjusted to Ozzy’s declining health: ‘They were both so used to the “go, go, go”. And I think for that to be taken away at such a drastic level, it’s been heartbreaking and terrifying.
‘And you know, my mum’s role has been about maintaining control of all the moving parts. To have all those things essentially break away has been extremely painful.’
The documentary, filmed in the years before his death and completed shortly after, captures Ozzy’s alternating defiance and vulnerability. But it’s Aimee’s presence that gives it emotional weight.
Nearly a quarter of a century after she turned her back on the cameras, Aimee’s reappearance is clearly an act of reconciliation.
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