{"id":290983,"date":"2026-01-18T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:00:10","slug":"roger-waters-stands-by-insensitive-ozzy-osbourne-comments-in-new-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290983\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters stands by insensitive Ozzy Osbourne comments in new interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/roger-waters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Waters<\/a> has doubled down on comments he made about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/ozzy-osbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> after his death.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-features\/ozzy-osbourne-obituary-black-sabbath-heavy-metal-the-osbournes-3880443\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy Osbourne, 1948-2025: culture-smashing revolutionary that redefined rock and reality TV<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Osbournes came to blows with the former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/pink-floyd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pink Floyd<\/a>\u00a0member recently, when the latter took part in an interview with\u00a0The Independent Ink\u00a0podcast shortly after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/ozzy-osbourne-dies-at-the-age-of-76-3879970\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy\u2019s death<\/a>, and said that he wasn\u2019t a fan of him, his time on television, or his music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense,\u201d he said, \u201cI don\u2019t care about Black Sabbath, I never did, I have no interest in biting the heads off chickens or whatever they do. I couldn\u2019t care less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/jack-osbourne-lashes-out-at-roger-waters-for-ozzy-osbourne-comments-my-father-always-thought-you-were-a-cnt-3889551\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Osbourne took to social media to call out Waters<\/a> for being \u201cpathetic and out of touch\u201d, adding: \u201cMy father always thought you were a c*nt \u2013 thanks for proving him right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-osbournes-hit-back-at-roger-waters-as-a-sad-irrelevant-old-miserable-ugly-human-being-3908289\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an episode of The Osbournes\u00a0podcast<\/a>, Sharon hit back at Waters too, saying: \u201cHe has no charisma, he looks like Frankenstein. The guy is sick in the head, he is not relevant in today\u2019s world. Nobody likes him.\u201d Shortly afterwards,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/ozzy-osbourne-merch-store-selling-roger-waters-diss-shirt-for-limited-time-another-prick-in-the-wall-3914979\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0a new shirt listed for sale on the late metal legend\u2019s merch page<\/a>, showing a cartoon version of Ozzy urinating onto a wall that resembles the cover of the iconic Pink Floyd album, \u2018The Wall\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a new interview with Piers Morgan, Waters was asked about his remarks and whether he regretted saying them so soon after Osbourne\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose comments, I\u2019m not denying that I said them, came in the middle of a long interview,\u201d Waters admitted before defending them. \u201cDo I have to like every rock group that ever was or people who bite the heads off bats?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re really empathetic, you don&#8217;t do that to a family when they&#8217;ve lost someone they love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Piers Morgan challenges Roger Waters on the comments he made about Ozzy Osbourne after his death.<\/p>\n<p>Full interview just dropped!\ud83d\udc47 <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y2Y97FNLak\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/y2Y97FNLak<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@piersmorgan<\/a> |\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xIKms6AIaE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xIKms6AIaE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiersUncensored\/status\/2012216904362926559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked whether he would apologise to Sharon, Waters said that he would not. \u201cI obviously had no idea that Sharon Osbourne would be watching a podcast,\u201d Waters said. \u201cNot that I have any time for Sharon Osbourne, she\u2019s a raging Zionist\u2026 and she\u2019s accused me of all kinds of things\u2026 because she\u2019s part of the Israeli lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of the family, Waters said, \u201cListen, Jack\u2026 if he wants to have a chat, I\u2019ll have a chat with him. And I won\u2019t be nasty to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Waters\u2019 original comments, Sharon revealed that she nearly took things one step further and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sharon-osbourne-nearly-mailed-roger-waters-a-box-of-poo-for-his-attack-on-ozzy-after-his-death-3917973\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was debating whether or not to send a box of excrement to the prog icon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was great, but his greatness didn\u2019t last. He couldn\u2019t do any great music on his own,\u201d she added, going on to reference the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/berlin-police-investigating-roger-waters-over-nazi-style-clothing-worn-at-gig-3448657\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">controversial attire he wore on stage in 2023<\/a>\u00a0that some alleged bore resemblance to a Nazi uniform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s crazy though, he\u2019s definitely, definitely not wired right. Five wives later, and [he] hates everybody that\u2019s successful. He\u2019s stomping around in his pathetic homemade Nazi outfit. He\u2019s nuts. I was going to send him one of my Tiffany boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The box in question is a nod to her history of sending out boxes of poo to journalists and other people who spoke ill of her and her family over the years. She opened up about the tactic back in 2006, saying that she had done it for years, and first came up with the idea when a journalist printed hurtful comments about her children\u2019s weight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the first review came out of [reality show]\u00a0The Osbournes, the journalist said something about my kids being fat and how unappealing that was,\u201d she told\u00a0Metal Hammer\u00a0nearly two decades ago (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalunderground.com\/news\/details.cfm?newsid=23244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Metal Underground<\/a>). \u201cI said, \u2018I heard you\u2019ve got an eating disorder. Eat this.\u2019\u2026 I\u2019ve done it for an awfully long time. I suppose I find it funny. I don\u2019t just do it to anybody. They have to have done something really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ozzy, The Prince Of Darkness, died on July 22 at his family home in Buckinghamshire. He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/ozzy-osbournes-cause-of-death-confirmed-3882952\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed away due to a heart attack<\/a>, but was in poor health beforehand as he suffered from coronary artery disease and Parkinson\u2019s. His death came just 17 days after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-black-sabbath-play-final-ever-show-at-villa-park-in-birmingham-3876261\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he played his final-ever live show in his hometown of Birmingham<\/a>, where he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sharon-osbourne-reveals-how-much-ozzy-and-black-sabbaths-back-to-the-beginning-final-show-actually-raised-for-charity-3909258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raised millions for multiple charities<\/a>\u00a0and enlisted help from some of the biggest names in metal.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview with Morgan, Sharon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sharon-osbourne-shares-ozzys-final-words-3917832\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened up about her last moments with the heavy metal pioneer and shared the final words he said to her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Waters has doubled down on comments he made about Ozzy Osbourne after his death. 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