Jack Osbourne admits he ‘doesn’t have a great relationship’ with sister Aimee
Jack Osbourne has opened up on his relationship with his rarely seen older sister Aimee following their father Ozzy’s death.
The Black Sabbath icon died aged 76 on July 22 after dealing with a myriad of health issues, including being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
A funeral cortege took place in his beloved home city of Birmingham on July 30 before he was buried in Buckinghamshire, with celebrities including Sir Elton John, Yungblud, and Marilyn Manson in attendance.
Ozzy’s wife Sharon Osbourne, as well as their three children – Aimee, Kelly, and Jack – were also pictured paying their respects among fans in Birmingham, and at the private burial among loved ones.
Aimee, 41, shunned a life in the spotlight, not appearing in his reality show The Osbournes alongside her parents and siblings.
Speaking on the Disrespectfully podcast, Jack 39, said that he and musician Aimee were ‘not close at all’ as he shared an insight into their relationship.
Talking about her decision not to appear in the MTV show, he said: ‘Back then she really wanted to be a musician and the kind of musician she wanted to be was like a Fiona Apple, Mazzy Star, like this kind of obscure, mysterious, moody…
‘And she deemed doing a show on MTV as low-hanging fruit. She was like, “I’m not going to be seen riding coat-tails,” kind of thing, that’s how she perceived it.
‘Once the show was hugely successful, I think she was kind of like, “Well I can’t now come on because I don’t want to be seen even more so as jumping on the bandwagon”. And she dug her heels in and wanted to be relatively private and obscure.’
He went on to say they ‘don’t have a great relationship’ as he opened up on the differences in their careers.
‘I’ve never asked her outright, “Do you regret it’” I think there must be a level of like, “Hey, my life would have probably been different than what it is if I’d done that”, so I don’t know, I think I would feel like I would have regretted it,’ he continued.
Kelly, 40, previously said that she and her sister ‘don’t talk’ after famously having a strained relationship over the years.
‘We’re just really different. She doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand her,’ she said during an interview on the Armchair Expert podcast in 2021.
A year prior, Aimee told New York’s Q1043 Out of the Box how much she valued her privacy after growing up with a famous father.
‘For me, I had grown up around having a pretty well-known dad anyway, and … I always really valued my privacy within that family,’ she said.
‘And for me personally, and for who I am, you know, as far as morally and also just to give myself a chance to actually develop into a human being as opposed to just being remembered for being a teenager, it didn’t really line up with what I saw my future as.’
She continued: ‘It definitely worked great for the rest of my family, but for me, and who I am, I just knew it was never something that I would have been able to consider realistically.’
Sharon, 72, however, said it broke her heart when her eldest child chose to move out of the family home at just 16.
She explained on The Talk: ‘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. And so she left at 16 and I regret every day that she did.’
Sharon added: ‘She was happy, but it broke my heart when she moved.’
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