Jack Osbourne has revealed he is “not close at all” with his older sister Aimee, speaking in a podcast recorded shortly before the pair were reunited at their father Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral.
The Black Sabbath frontman died aged 76 last month, with a public procession through Birmingham and a private service at the family home in Buckinghamshire. Jack, Aimee and their sister Kelly were seen fighting back tears as they paid tribute alongside their mother Sharon.
In an interview on the Disrespectfully podcast, Jack, 39, said the siblings grew apart when he and Kelly starred in the MTV series The Osbournes, which Aimee chose not to appear in to protect her privacy. “Back then she really wanted to be a musician and the kind of musician she wanted to be was like a Fiona Apple, Mazzy Star, like this kind of obscure, mysterious, moody,” he said. “And she deemed doing a show on MTV as low-hanging fruit. She was like, ‘I’m not going to be seen riding coat-tails,’ kind of thing, that’s how she perceived it.”
Jack added that once the show became hugely successful, Aimee felt she could not join because she did not want to be seen as jumping on the bandwagon. Asked if she might regret the decision, he said: “I’ve never had the conversation with her, we’re not close at all. We don’t have a great relationship, she’ll be the first to tell you that, so it’s no secret.” He added: “I think there must be a level of like, ‘Hey, my life would have probably been different than what it is if I’d done that.’”
Kelly, 40, said in 2021 that she had been estranged from Aimee for a long time, telling Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast: “We don't talk. We're just really different. She doesn't understand me and I don't understand her.” Aimee, a singer under the name ARO, told The Independent in 2015: “I wouldn't say there is an ease between us, but there is an acceptance.”
Sharon Osbourne previously expressed regret over Aimee moving out as a teenager to avoid appearing on The Osbournes, saying on The Talk in 2016: “She felt too that she didn't want to grow up on camera. She hated the idea - it was appalling to her. And so she left at 16 and I regret every day that she did. It broke my heart when she moved.”
