Jason Momoa is looking back at some of the last memories he shared with Ozzy Osbourne before the rocker’s death last year.
Appears on Thursday, January 15, episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Momoa, 46, reflected on his experience hosting Black Sabbath’s last concert. Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, at the age of 76 after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. The last performance of Black Sabbath was held on July 5 in Birmingham, England.
“I had to accommodate them,” Momoa said Jimmy Fallon. “He’s like a God to me. He was amazing, yeah. I loved him.”
Momoa continued, “Then, unfortunately, he died like a couple of weeks later.”
Several celebrities have spoken out following the death of Ozzy Osbourne at the age of 76 following his battle with Parkinson’s disease. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne passed away this morning,” Ozzy’s family announced in a statement on Tuesday, July (…)
The Aquaman The star described the Black Sabbath event as “absolutely insane”, which he said was on par with the SNL50 party which also took place in 2025 where he got to rub shoulders with some of the most famous people in the industry including Cher.
“I don’t think there will be a cooler party in the rest of my life,” Momoa said SNL50.
During the TV appearance, the actor also opened up about getting into a mosh pit with his 17-year-old son Nakoa-Wolf as heavy metal band Pantera performed as support for Black Sabbath.
“I grabbed my son and said, ‘Let’s go.’ And my security, my friend who was helping me, said, ‘No, you’re not,'” Momoa recalled. “But I took my son. He had never been in a pit. And I said, ‘You’re going with me, boy.’
Jason Momoa.
(Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)In July 2025, Osbourne died just weeks after his last performance on stage as part of Black Sabbath. His cause of death was cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease.
The rocker is survived by his wife, sharonto whom he was married since 1982, and their children: daughters Aimee, 42, i Kelly, 41, and son Jack40. The singer also shared a daughter jessica51 and son Louis49 years old, with his ex-wife Thelma Riley.
“It is with more sadness than words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne passed away this morning,” Osbourne’s family said in a statement shared with Us Weekly at that time. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family’s privacy at this time.”
Ozzy Osbourne commemorated the final concert of his life just a day before his death. Osbourne shared a behind-the-scenes photo of Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning show via Instagram on Monday, July 21. The picture showed the outside of Osbourne’s dressing room at England’s Aston, Birmingham, Villa Park, where the concert was held on (…)
According to his friend Tom Morellowho worked at Black Sabbath’s Back to the beginning Farewell concert, Osbourne he was aware that he was near the end of his life at the time of his last concert.
Morello told Chicago radio station Q101 in August 2025 that Osbourne was “frail” for a time before his death.
“The fact that he lived to touch and feel that love one more time, to do ‘Paranoid,’ to do ‘Crazy Train.’ If you have to go, and I wish Ozzy lived another 30 years, if you have to get out … he seemed to know that,” Morello said on the radio show.
Describing Osbourne’s death as “tragic”, Morello added: “Ozzy Osbourne had lived on the edge for so long; the fact that he lived as long as he did was a miracle.”