Roger Waters stands by insensitive Ozzy Osbourne comments in new interview

Roger Waters has doubled down on comments he made about Ozzy Osbourne after his death.

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The Osbournes came to blows with the former Pink Floyd member recently, when the latter took part in an interview with The Independent Ink podcast shortly after Ozzy’s death, and said that he wasn’t a fan of him, his time on television, or his music.

“He was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense,” he said, “I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did, I have no interest in biting the heads off chickens or whatever they do. I couldn’t care less.”

In response, Jack Osbourne took to social media to call out Waters for being “pathetic and out of touch”, adding: “My father always thought you were a c*nt – thanks for proving him right.”

Then, on an episode of The Osbournes podcast, Sharon hit back at Waters too, saying: “He has no charisma, he looks like Frankenstein. The guy is sick in the head, he is not relevant in today’s world. Nobody likes him.” Shortly afterwards, a new shirt listed for sale on the late metal legend’s merch page, showing a cartoon version of Ozzy urinating onto a wall that resembles the cover of the iconic Pink Floyd album, ‘The Wall’.

Now, in a new interview with Piers Morgan, Waters was asked about his remarks and whether he regretted saying them so soon after Osbourne’s death.

“Those comments, I’m not denying that I said them, came in the middle of a long interview,” Waters admitted before defending them. “Do I have to like every rock group that ever was or people who bite the heads off bats?”

“If you’re really empathetic, you don’t do that to a family when they’ve lost someone they love.”

Piers Morgan challenges Roger Waters on the comments he made about Ozzy Osbourne after his death.

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Asked whether he would apologise to Sharon, Waters said that he would not. “I obviously had no idea that Sharon Osbourne would be watching a podcast,” Waters said. “Not that I have any time for Sharon Osbourne, she’s a raging Zionist… and she’s accused me of all kinds of things… because she’s part of the Israeli lobby.”

As for the rest of the family, Waters said, “Listen, Jack… if he wants to have a chat, I’ll have a chat with him. And I won’t be nasty to him.”

Following Waters’ original comments, Sharon revealed that she nearly took things one step further and was debating whether or not to send a box of excrement to the prog icon.

“He was great, but his greatness didn’t last. He couldn’t do any great music on his own,” she added, going on to reference the controversial attire he wore on stage in 2023 that some alleged bore resemblance to a Nazi uniform.

“He’s crazy though, he’s definitely, definitely not wired right. Five wives later, and [he] hates everybody that’s successful. He’s stomping around in his pathetic homemade Nazi outfit. He’s nuts. I was going to send him one of my Tiffany boxes.”

The box in question is a nod to her history of sending out boxes of poo to journalists and other people who spoke ill of her and her family over the years. She opened up about the tactic back in 2006, saying that she had done it for years, and first came up with the idea when a journalist printed hurtful comments about her children’s weight.

“When the first review came out of [reality show] The Osbournes, the journalist said something about my kids being fat and how unappealing that was,” she told Metal Hammer nearly two decades ago (via Metal Underground). “I said, ‘I heard you’ve got an eating disorder. Eat this.’… I’ve done it for an awfully long time. I suppose I find it funny. I don’t just do it to anybody. They have to have done something really bad.”

Ozzy, The Prince Of Darkness, died on July 22 at his family home in Buckinghamshire. He passed away due to a heart attack, but was in poor health beforehand as he suffered from coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s. His death came just 17 days after he played his final-ever live show in his hometown of Birmingham, where he raised millions for multiple charities and enlisted help from some of the biggest names in metal.

Elsewhere in the interview with Morgan, Sharon opened up about her last moments with the heavy metal pioneer and shared the final words he said to her.

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