Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne Are Rockin’ and Rollin’ in Love! See Their Relationship Timeline

1970

Sharon was just 18 years old when she met Ozzy in 1970. At the time, her famous father managed Black Sabbath. Ozzy formed the now-iconic band in 1968 with songwriter Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward and bassist Geezer Butler.

1979

Years after Ozzy’s band was picked up by Don’s record label, he was fired in 1979. Following his release, Sharon headed to Los Angeles and began managing his new career. The two eventually began dating and the rest is history!

1982

Nearly three years after the couple began dating, Sharon and Ozzy got married in a romantic, lavish ceremony in Maui, Hawaii on July 4th. Ozzy’s marriage to Sharon came the same year his divorce from his first wife, Thelma Riley, was finalized.

Throughout his first marriage, the “Crazy Train” singer became the father of Elliot Kingsley, Jessica Osbourne and Louis Osbourne.

1983

Sharon and Ozzy welcomed their first child together, daughter Aimee Osbourne, on September 2, 1983. 

1984-1985

The couple didn’t wait long at all before adding to their brood. Sharon and Ozzy welcomed their second child, daughter Kelly Osbourne, a little over a year later on October 27, 1984. The pair’s third child, Jack Osbourne, arrived the following year on November 8, 1985.

1989

Although their marriage was plagued by rumors, their relationship reached one of it’s lowest points when Ozzy spent three months in rehab. In 1989, Sharon and Ozzy really got into it after the famed rocker threatened to strangle his wife after returning home drunk from a music festival.

“I’ve decided you have to go,” Sharon said Ozzy told her during an interview with The Guardian in 2005. “I called the police, and they locked him up. I didn’t press charges but he went into rehab for three months. He was totally insane from all the drink and drugs he was doing, and, well, these things happen.”

2002

Ozzy, Sharon and their unique family grew to TV superstardom when their family’s MTV reality show, The Osbournes, premiered in 2002. Although the series became one of the network’s most successful shows, the couple’s eldest daughter Aimee chose to stay out of the spotlight.

Sharon once opened up about her daughter’s choice to leave home because she couldn’t stand filming her parent’s reality show. “I know that my eldest girl, Aimee, left home at 16 and she couldn’t live in our house because we were filming and it drove her insane. She felt, too, that she didn’t want to grow up on camera. She hated the idea, it was appalling to her,” Sharon once recalled during an episode of The Talk. “And so she left at 16 and I regret every day that she did.”

2002

Their TV show kicked off a year of struggles for the Osbourne family. In July, Sharon revealed she was diagnosed with colon cancer and was forced to have nearly a foot of her organ surgically removed.

The music manager opened up to People about the devastating diagnosis. “You think nothing will ever happen to you. You’re invincible. Then after you get over the shock and panic, you realize how lucky you are to be alive,” she said at the time.

Around the same time, their daughter Kelly was struggling with a drug abuse issue following her mom’s cancer diagnosis. In her 2009 memoir, Fierce, Kelly opened up about taking up to 50 prescription pills a day to cope with her mom’s illness. Their son, Jack, also struggled with similar issues that led him to go to rehab in 2003.

2012

Just weeks following the birth of his first child and Ozzy and Sharon’s first grandbaby, Jack was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012. At the time, the supportive parents blamed themselves for Jack’s disease.

“I kept thinking, ‘What did I do wrong? What did I eat or drink when I was pregnant?’ I feel like it was somehow my fault,” Sharon told BBC News. Ozzy added, “If it was me, you’d think, ‘Ozzy had a reputation and it caught up with him,’ but Jack is such a good guy.”

2012

After learning of her son’s MS diagnosis, Sharon made her health a priority. Nearly a decade after she fought her first cancer battle, Sharon underwent a preventative double mastectomy in 2012.

“For me, it wasn’t a big decision, it was a no-brainer,” she told Hello! magazine after doctors told her she was at high risk for breast cancer.

2013

After years of laying low in the spotlight, talk of Ozzy’s drug abuse issues returned after he took to Facebook and announced he slipped in his sober living routine. “I was in a very dark place and was an a—hole to the people I love most, my family,” he explained in a post in April 2013. “Just to set the record straight, Sharon and I are not divorcing. I’m just trying to be a better person.”

2016

Sharon and Ozzy shocked fans when they announced they were splitting after 33 years of marriage. Around the same time, Sharon also came out as bisexual on her show.

“I always think everybody is gay, so am I,” she said at the time. “I am not a little bit gay. I am extremely interested in the fact of what I missed out on. But it is too late now.”

2016

Despite confirmation from Sharon herself, the couple’s split didn’t last long considering they were back together by October 2016. While appearing on his wife’s talk show in November, Ozzy opened up about their relationship and revealed their bond is “1,000 percent better” than how it used to be.

“It’s a journey, really, a marriage,” he explained. “You go up, you go down, you make mistakes … I’ve learned a lot this year.”

2017

Sharon and Ozzy celebrated their longtime love by renewing their nuptials in May 2017. The Sun reported that the couple gathered their family in Las Vegas for the highly anticipated vow renewal ceremony.

Their sweet display of love came one year after Sharon revealed her husband had a total of six affairs throughout their marriage.

2020

As Ozzy sat down with Robin Roberts for an interview on Good Morning America in January 2020, the famed rocker revealed he was diagnosed with a “mild” form of Parkinson’s disease.

“It’s PRKN2,”  Sharon chimed in during the televised interview, noting there are “so many different types of Parkinson’s” and that this is “not a death sentence by any stretch of the imagination, but it does affect certain nerves in your body.”

Ozzy’s heartbreaking diagnosis comes after a year filled with health issues — which included pneumonia, surgery for an infection in his hand and another hospitalization following complications from the flu. “[It] was the worst, longest, most painful, miserable year of my life,” he candidly shared with GMA.

2021

The pair paid tribute to their 39th wedding anniversary in July 2021, sharing touching messages for one another on Instagram. Ozzy uploaded two throwback pics from their 1982 Hawaii wedding ceremony, simply gushing, “Happy anniversary, my love!”

Sharon shared similar snaps from the big day, but she wrote a much lengthier message in the caption. Reflecting on the last 39 years, the Revenge author thanked her hubby for helping create “the most incredible life together.”

“The crazy, wonderful and insane times. Yes, pain and sorrow too … but we got through it,” Sharon penned. “We worked so hard for years professionally and personally. We succeed together. You are my soul, my life. What a fantastic life we have lived so far, the best thing is there’s more to come. Every day is an adventure, every day I love you more and respect you more. My soulmate, my love and my friend here’s to our next adventure! Love you always, Sharon.”