Paramedics from a charity reportedly spent two hours treating 76-year-old Black Sabbath rockstar Ozzy Osbourne before his death on Tuesday.
The Daily Mail reports that an air ambulance was called to Welders House, Osbourne’s Buckinghamshire mansion, on Tuesday morning. Just 15 minutes later, at 10:30 a.m., the red checkered chopper landed in a field near the Osbourne estate. Around 12:30 p.m., the paramedics returned to their base 27 miles away at RAF Benson, near Wallingford, South Oxfordshire.
“We can confirm that our helicopter was dispatched to provide advanced critical care at an incident near Chalfont St Giles yesterday,” a spokesperson for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance wrote to the Daily Mail. The air ambulance only provides care for the most critically ill and injured patients, according to the group’s website.
These new details cast doubts on rumors that the rocker died of an assisted death. The rumors circulated after the resurfacing of a claim made by Sharon Osbourne, his wife, 72, in a 2007 interview with The Mirror that the couple had “drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains.”
However, on July 11, their daughter, Kelly Osbourne, 40, told her Instagram followers that Sharon’s claim “was bulls--t my mom said to get attention one time,” maintaining “my dad’s not dying.”
Just 10 days before his death, Osbourne participated in a meet-and-greet in his hometown of Birmingham, which took place a week after he performed in Black Sabbath’s farewell show on July 5 in the same city.
The singer had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease since at least 2019, which had gradually affected his mobility. He eventually underwent multiple spine surgeries to mitigate the effects of the disease.
When his family announced his death, they refrained from including his cause of death.
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