Yungblud is holding on tightly to the words and memories he shared with the late Ozzy Osbourne.
Appearing on Steve-O’s Wild Ride! podcast on Sept. 4, the Abyss singer reflected on the most valuable piece of advice the Black Sabbath icon gave him before his passing.
“The most beautiful thing he ever said to me was, ‘Never compromise. They’ll get it later,’” Yungblud, 28, recalled.
At first, the remark seemed like a simple statement, but Yungblud said its meaning grew deeper the more he thought about it.
“A lot of people always had an issue with my energy,” he explained.
“People would think I’m too nuts. I think when someone’s crazy… people find it hard to believe that I’m actually like this all of the f—ing time.”
He also remembered a conversation with Sharon Osbourne, who told him her husband saw a part of himself in Yungblud.
“Not because we make the same music,” he said. “Just, because we’re f—ing a bit nuts. We’re f—ing crazy. And then ever since we became really close.”
Osbourne died on July 22 at the age of 76.
For Yungblud, building a friendship with someone he had admired his whole life was more meaningful than he could have imagined.
“When you’ve loved someone your whole life and then you get to know them and they are, I don’t know, pure and beautiful and exactly what you wanted but even more, it’s f—ing cool,” he said.
Just days after recording the podcast, Yungblud honoured Osbourne with a tribute performance at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7.
Sharing the stage with Nuno Bettencourt and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, he helped deliver a medley of Osbourne’s greatest hits. After the emotional set, the group embraced, and Yungblud shouted, “Ozzy forever man!”
Yungblud had also taken part in Osbourne’s final concert with Black Sabbath at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.
Following Osbourne’s death, he revealed in a tribute post that he had given the rock legend a custom necklace before that show and promised to play Black Sabbath’s Changes every night “for the rest of my life.”
Their connection even made its way on screen, as Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne appeared in Yungblud’s 2022 music video for The Funeral.
