Emotional Kelly Osbourne reveals ‘part of her died’ with late dad Ozzy as she marks one year anniversary of his death

KELLY Osbourne has opened up about the reality of living without dad Ozzy, admitting: “Life without you has been the hardest thing I have ever had to endure.” The heartbreaking posts come on the first anniversary of the rock legend’s death aged 76. Kelly Osbourne paid an emotional tribute to dad Ozzy on the first anniversary of his death Credit: Getty Kelly shared two emotional Instagram posts marking a year since Ozzy’s death Credit: Getty Kelly, 41, took to Instagram to share an emotional reflection on grief, saying the deepest pain isn’t just losing her dad, but losing the person she was before his death. The lengthy post describes grief as leaving people “ghosts of the people we used to be.” Sign up for the Showbiz newsletter Thank you! Kelly wrote: “I don’t just mourn the father I lost. I mourn the soul I was before death taught my heart its own name. “There is a grief that steals more than the person you love. It quietly takes the light from your laughter, the innocence from your hope, and the stranger you become is someone you’ll spend a lifetime trying to recognize. Kelly described grief as leaving people “ghosts of the people we used to be” Credit: Instagram Kelly shared a throwback snap of Ozzy alongside a heartfelt letter Credit: Instagram “People think grief is missing someone who is gone, but the deepest sorrow is waking each day longing for the version of yourself who died with them. “Grief is a language no one truly speaks until life forces it upon them. “It cannot be explained, borrowed, or imagined. You only understand its endless ache when you’ve stood in the unbearable silence, carrying a love that has nowhere left to go. “I miss who I was before my daddy died. Before my heart became a home for absence. Before every memory became both a blessing and a wound. Most read in Showbiz Kelly penned a heartbreaking open letter to her late father Credit: Instagram Ozzy doted on grandson Sidney before his death last year Credit: Instagram “Some losses don’t simply break you. They divide your life into two people. The one you were before, and the one left behind.” She added: “Perhaps that is grief’s cruelest truth. Not that death takes the ones we love, but that it leaves us living as ghosts of the people we used to be.” Kelly also shared a series of pictures of Ozzy in his younger years alongside a heartfelt letter addressed to him. In it, she said she firmly believes his spirit lives on but admitted: “Life without you has been the hardest thing I have ever had to endure.” Kelly went on to say how much Ozzy’s grandson will miss him and how much he already reminds her of him. She shared: “Oh, Daddy, you would adore the little man he is becoming…Seeing you reflected in him is one of the greatest gifts I have ever been given.” Kelly shares three-year-old son Sidney with her ex-fiancé, Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson. Ozzy doted on his grandson, with the youngster a regular fixture at family celebrations before the rock legend’s death. Ozzy Osbourne died exactly one year ago today aged 76, at his home in Buckinghamshire, just 17 days after his farewell Black Sabbath concert at Villa Park in Birmingham. Comment now