Sharon Osbourne looked somber as she recently visited the Manchester cemetery where her father, Don Arden, is buried, 15 years after his death.
The 70-year-old star, who was estranged from Arden for 20 years before reconciling in 2001, joined a camera crew while filming scenes for the reality show Home To Roost, documenting her and husband Ozzy Osbourne’s move. to the UK from the US. state
Sharon was wearing a black coat and fuchsia pants when she arrived to pay her respects, accompanied by her loved ones.
Arden died on July 21, 2007 at age 81 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Sharon did not attend her funeral, and a source told The Sun at the time that she was “too traumatized to attend”.
Sharon and Ozzy met when she was just 18 through Don, who was the manager of Osbourne’s metal band Black Sabbath.
Tragic loss: Sharon Osbourne looked somber as she recently visited the Manchester cemetery where her father Don Arden is buried, 15 years after his death
Rocky bond: The star, 70, was estranged from Arden for 20 years before reconciling in 2001 (pictured in 2002)
She entered into a relationship with Osbourne and took over his management, angering Arden.
It was claimed that the next time Sharon visited Don, his dogs savagely attacked her, causing her to lose her unborn child.
She married Osbourne and she and Don didn’t speak to each other for 20 years.
Sharon had thrown soup at the woman Don had started an extramarital affair with in Hollywood in the early 1980s (leaving Sharon’s mother living alone in England) and once even tried to run Don over in her car, while Ozzy was hiding in the passenger seat.
For his part, Don had sued Sharon for millions when she took Ozzy from his record label, Jet, and threatened her.
“There were times when I was on the floor crying and shaking because he had threatened to come into the house and kill me,” she once told me.
He’s a wicked old bastard and I can’t wait for him to die.
He has described Don as “notoriously violent” in the past.
Sighting: Sharon was wearing a black coat and fuchsia pants when she arrived to pay her respects, accompanied by her loved ones.
Regards: Arden died on July 21, 2007 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Sharon did not attend her funeral, and a source told The Sun at the time that she was “too traumatized to attend”.
Chat: The star was seen talking to loved ones during the visit
Group: The star was filming scenes for her new reality series.
Camera crew: A cameraman was seen getting ready for the day.
In fact, as far as Sharon and Ozzy’s three children, Aimee, Kelly, and Jack, were concerned, their grandfather was already dead.
“I told them that because I didn’t want him anywhere near them and I certainly didn’t want them to see him,” Sharon explained.
Once, after everyone had watched from a car as Sharon was yelling obscenities at her father in the street, she told her bewildered children that the white-haired old man she was yelling at was Tony Curtis (a friend of Don and “only the first”). name that came to mind’).
When her brother David called her with the news that Don, now in his 70s, had been diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, she decided the time was right for a reconciliation.
When Don agreed, “everyone was very nervous,” David told me. “But as soon as the two of them were in the same room together again, the bad feelings just melted away.”
Determined to do something for her ailing father, Sharon encouraged Don to finish his memoir, a project she had been working on sporadically for five years.
Sharon and David stopped talking after they fell out over where to lay their father to rest after he died in 2007.