Kelly Osbourne Slams Rumors Dad Ozzy Osbourne Is ‘Dying' Amid Parkinson's Battle: ‘How Dare You'

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Kelly Osbourne is setting the record straight about dad Ozzy Osbourne's health amid his battle with Parkinson's disease.
The 40-year-old shared a screenshot of a direct message she received via her Instagram Story on Monday, July 14. In the message, a social media user claimed Kelly doesn't "understand how Parkinson's disease works" because she has publicly denied that her father is "dying."
"This is the s*** I wake up to," Kelly wrote alongside the screenshot. "Wtf is wrong with people?"
In a subsequent Story, Kelly showed how she replied. "Believe me I fully understand how this works," she wrote in her message. "Your message is incredibly rude. So firstly I want to tell you to go f*** yourself! He is not in stage 5!!! That is not the way his kind of Parkinson's works."
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Calling out the "nasty" comments, Kelly told the user to "stop perpetuating the bulls***" being spread about her family online. "I don't really respond [to] messages such as this but you really pissed me off," she continued. "How dare you!"
Kelly's response came shortly after she slammed an AI-generated video of Ozzy, 76, saying he was "going to die."
"It has a voice like my dad's David Attenborough or something. And it starts out saying, 'I don't need a doctor to tell me that I'm going to die. I know I'm going to die," she said in an Instagram Story uploaded on Friday, July 11, per E! News. "What the f*** is wrong with you people? Why would you spend your time making a video like this?"
Kelly insisted that her father "is not dying," adding, "Yes, he has Parkinson's, and yes, his mobility is completely different than it used to be, but he's not dying. What is wrong with you?"
The former Fashion Police star also shut down speculation that Ozzy and her mother, Sharon Osbourne, have a "suicide pact," a subject that was raised in Sharon's 2007 memoir, Survivor, and on a 2023 episode of "The Osbournes Podcast" with Jack Osbourne.
"That was bulls*** my mom said to get attention one time," Kelly said on Friday.
News broke in 2020 that Ozzy was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Earlier this month, he played his final performance with Black Sabbath — the band's first time on stage together in 20 years.
"You wake up the next morning and find that something else has gone wrong. You begin to think this is never going to end," Ozzy told The Guardian in an interview published in May, several months after revealing that the illness has affected his ability to walk.
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Ozzy shared insights into how he was preparing for the concert, telling The Guardian, "I do weights [and] bike riding, I've got a guy living at my house who's working with me. It's tough. I've been laid up for such a long time. I've been lying on my back doing nothing and the first thing to go is your strength. It's like starting all over again."
Kelly attended the performance in Birmingham, England, on July 5 — where her partner, Sid Wilson, proposed backstage. In an emotional Instagram Story video, she thanked fans for supporting her family.
"Thank you to everyone who came to the show last night, thank you to everybody who was involved in the show last night. You have no idea what it did for my dad," she said at the time. "It was one of the most magical experiences of my entire life, and if I keep talking, I'm probably going to end up crying again. So, that's all I'll say for now. Thank you."