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, was accompanied by a camera crew as she filmed scenes for reality show Home To Roost and her and husband Ozzy Osbourne’s move Conditions documented from the United States to Britain.
Wearing a black coat and fuchsia pants, Sharon arrived to pay her respects, accompanied by her loved ones.
Arden died on July 21, 2007 at the age of 81 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Sharon did not attend his funeral, 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, 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, which infuriated Arden.
It has been claimed that the next time she visited Don, Sharon was devastated by his pet dogs, resulting in her losing her unborn child.
She married Osbourne and she and Don did not speak to each other for 20 years.
Sharon had poured soup on the woman Don had started an extramarital relationship with in Hollywood in the early 1980s (which Sharon’s mother had left alone in England) and once even tried to run over Don in her car – as Ozzy in the passenger seat crouched.
For his part, Don had sued Sharon for millions when she took Ozzy away from his record label Jet and threatened her.
“Sometimes I would lay on the floor crying and shaking because he threatened to come in and kill me,” she once told me.
“He’s a bad old bastard and I can’t wait for him to die.”
She 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
Respect: Arden passed away on July 21, 2007 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Sharon did not attend his funeral, a source told The Sun at the time as she was “too traumatized to attend”.
Chat: The star was spotted chatting 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
As for Sharon and Ozzy’s three children — Aimee, Kelly, and Jack — their grandfather was actually already dead.
“I told them that because I didn’t want him anywhere near them and certainly didn’t want them to see him,” Sharon explained.
Once, after they all watched from a car as Sharon obscenely yelled at her father in the street, she told her stunned children that the white-haired old man she was yelling at was Tony Curtis (a friend of Don’s and “just him.” First”) name that came to mind”).
When her brother David called to say that Don, now in his 70s, had been diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s, she decided it was time for a reconciliation.
When Don agreed, “everyone was very nervous,” David told me. “But once the two were back in the same room together, the bad feelings just melted away.”
Determined to do something for her ailing father, Sharon encouraged Don to complete his memoir, a project he had worked on sporadically for five years.
Sharon and David later stopped speaking after an argument over where to bury their father following his death in 2007.