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Sharon Osbourne’s father managed Black Sabbath. When she took Ozzy from him, he didn’t speak to her for 20 years. Her father was Don Arden. In the music business they called him Mr Big, the English Godfather and the Al Capone of Pop. He was known for threats, intimidation and deals nobody else would dare to make. Sharon grew up in that world and went to work for him straight out of school. In 1979 Black Sabbath fired Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon started dating him and took over his management herself, away from her father. Her father was furious. They stopped speaking. Sharon rebuilt Ozzy from scratch. A new band, a solo career, and later Ozzfest. They married in 1982. Years later she told The Guardian the best lesson she ever had was watching her father ruin his own business. In 2001 she said her father had never seen her children, and he never would. Then Ozzy stepped in. In the video below he says he told Sharon to stop pretending she hated her dad and pick up the phone. Her father tells the rest. When she finally came to see him, the first thing she called him can’t be repeated here. But they hugged. And for the first time, he met his grandchildren, Jack and Kelly, on camera for The Osbournes. We never spoke a word for 20 years, he says. Now we’re talking. I can’t believe it. A few years later he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Sharon paid for his care until he died in 2007. Ozzy died in 2025. The man her father lost became the reason she got her father back. Would you forgive a parent after 20 years? Follow me for more stories like this.