{"id":2055093,"date":"2025-09-28T02:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2055093"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:21:42","slug":"friend-comments-on-rock-icons-well-being-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/friend-comments-on-rock-icons-well-being-before-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend Comments on Rock Icon&#8217;s Well-Being Before Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Among <strong>Ozzy Osbourne<\/strong>&#8216;s music industry pals was record producer <strong>Andrew Watt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For six and a half years, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ozzy-osbourne-last-days-andrew-watt-1235436231\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Rolling Stone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Watt, 34 spoke daily Osbourne, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/ozzy-osbourne-dead-76-212555176.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:died on July 22, 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">died on July 22, 2025<\/a>, at age 76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So that means on July 21 of this year, Watt also talked to the heavy metal icon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Everything was normal,&#8221; Watt, 34, told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in an interview article published Saturday, September 27. &#8220;And the next day was a giant shock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watt added, &#8220;I miss the laughter,&#8221; in reflecting on his time with the heavy metal icon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watt became close with Osbourne while producing the former Black Sabbath frontman&#8217;s final two albums: <em>Ordinary Man<\/em> (2020) and <em>Patient Number 9<\/em> (2022), as <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following his tragic death in July, Osbourne&#8217;s family issued a statement that \u201che was with his family and surrounded by love.\u201d On August 5, it was confirmed he died from a heart attack, with coronary artery disease and Parkinson\u2019s disease listed as contributing factors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Later in August, a documentary about the late rocker was supposed to debut on BBC One but was abruptly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/rock-legend-ozzy-osbourne-documentary-192834895.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:pulled from airing just hours before its scheduled runtime;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">pulled from airing just hours before its scheduled runtime<\/a>. <em>Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home<\/em> was supposed to launch on August 18, chronicling the last chapter of his life with contributions from wife <strong>Sharon Osbourne<\/strong> as well as his children <strong>Jack Osbourne<\/strong> and <strong>Kelly Osbourne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More recently, however, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/ozzy-osbourne-documentary-trailer-leaves-095730270.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:trailer for an upcoming Paramount+ documentary;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">trailer for an upcoming Paramount+ documentary<\/a> about Ozzy was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s called <em>Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now<\/em>, a two-hour film directed by <strong>Tania Alexander<\/strong>. Dropping on October 7, the doc will look back at Osbourne\u2019s final six years as he prepared for his last two albums and farewell tour amid serious health issues, per a press release shared\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/09\/ozzy-osbourne-no-escape-from-now-documentary-paramount-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:by Consequence of Sound;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">by <em>Consequence of Sound<\/em><\/a>. It was not originally intended to be a posthumous look at Osbourne\u2019s life, and the rock legend is featured in interview segments throughout the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>This story was originally reported by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\/andrew-watt-comments-ozzy-osbourne-well-being-day-before-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Parade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Parade<\/a> on Sep 27, 2025, where it first appeared in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=parade.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Ozzy Osbourne&#8216;s music industry pals was record producer Andrew Watt. For six and a half years, according to Rolling Stone, Watt, 34 spoke daily Osbourne, who died on July 22, 2025, at age 76. So that means on July 21 of this year, Watt also talked to the heavy metal icon. &#8220;Everything was normal,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2055094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[361226,338888,30520,33128,372420,314737,22406],"class_list":["post-2055093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-andrew-watt","tag-jack-osbourne","tag-kelly-osbourne","tag-ozzy-osbourne","tag-record-producer","tag-rolling-stone","tag-sharon-osbourne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Friend-Comments-on-Rock-Icons-Well-Being-Before-Death.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}