Jason Momoa is trying again at a number of the final reminiscences he shared with Ozzy Osbourne earlier than the rocker’s demise final yr.
Showing on the Thursday, January 15 episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Momoa, 46, mirrored on his expertise internet hosting Black Sabbath’s remaining gig simply weeks earlier than Osbourne died. (Osbourne died on July 22, 2025 at age 76 following a battle with Parkinson’s illness. Black Sabbath’s remaining efficiency was held on July 5 in Birmingham.)
“I needed to host for them,” Momoa instructed Fallon. “He’s like a God to me. It was unbelievable, yeah. I beloved him.”
Momoa continued, “Then, sadly he handed, like a few weeks later.”
The Aquaman star described the Black Sabbath occasion as “completely insane,” which he stated was on par with the SNL50 social gathering that additionally occurred in 2025, the place he was in a position to brush shoulders with a number of the most well-known individuals within the business, together with Cher.
“I don’t assume there shall be a cooler social gathering in the remainder of my life,” Momoa stated of SNL50.
Throughout the TV look, the actor additionally spoke about getting right into a mosh pit together with his son Nakoa-Wolf, 17, as heavy metallic band Pantera carried out as a help act for Black Sabbath.
“I grabbed my son, and I used to be, like, ‘We’re going.’ And my safety, my buddy who was serving to me, was like, ‘No, you’re not,’” Momoa recalled. “However I grabbed my son. He’d by no means been in a mosh pit. And I used to be like, ‘You’re going with me, boy.’”
Jason Momoa. (Photograph by Theo Wargo/Getty Pictures)
In July 2025, Osbourne died simply weeks after his remaining onstage efficiency as a part of Black Sabbath. His reason for demise was cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery illness and Parkinson’s illness.
The rocker was survived by his spouse, Sharon, to whom he had been married since 1982, and their kids: daughters Aimee, 42, and Kelly, 41, and son Jack, 40. The singer additionally shared daughter Jessica, 51, and son Louis, 49, with ex-wife Thelma Riley.
“It’s with extra unhappiness than mere phrases can convey that we’ve got to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning,” Osbourne’s household stated in an announcement shared with Us Weekly on the time. “He was together with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household’s privateness presently.”
Ozzy Osbourne commemorated the ultimate live performance of his life simply sooner or later earlier than his demise. Osbourne shared a behind-the-scenes picture from Black Sabbath’s Again to the Starting present through Instagram on Monday, July 21. The image confirmed the surface of Osbourne’s dressing room at Aston, Birmingham, England’s Villa Park, the place the live performance was held on […]
In keeping with his buddy Tom Morello, who labored on Black Sabbath’s Again to the Starting farewell gig, Osbourne was conscious he was close to the tip of his life on the time of his remaining gig.
Morello instructed Chicago’s Q101 radio station in August 2025 that Osbourne was “frail” for some time within the lead as much as his demise.
“The actual fact he lived to play and really feel that love another time, to do ‘Paranoid’, to do ‘Loopy Practice’. When you’ve got received to go — and I want Ozzy lived one other 30 years — in the event you’ve received to exit … it felt like he knew,” Morello stated on the radio present.
Describing Osbourne’s demise as “tragic,” Morello added, “Ozzy Osbourne had lived on the sting for such a very long time; the very fact he lived so long as he did was a miracle.”
