Jason Momoa is looking back at some of the last memories he shared with Ozzy Osbourne before the rocker’s death last year.
Appearing on the Thursday, January 15 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Momoa, 46, reflected on his experience hosting Black Sabbath’s final gig just weeks before Osbourne died. (Osbourne died on July 22, 2025 at age 76 following a battle with Parkinson’s disease. Black Sabbath’s final performance was held on July 5 in Birmingham.)
“I had to host for them,” Momoa told Fallon. “He’s like a God to me. It was unbelievable, yeah. I loved him.”
Momoa continued, “Then, sadly he passed, like a couple of weeks later.”
The Aquaman star described the Black Sabbath event as “absolutely insane,” which he said was on par with the SNL50 party that also occurred in 2025, where he was able to brush 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 of SNL50.
During the TV appearance, the actor also spoke about getting into a mosh pit with his son Nakoa-Wolf, 17, as heavy metal band Pantera performed as a support act for Black Sabbath.
“I grabbed my son, and I was, like, ‘We’re going.’ And my security, my buddy who was helping me, was like, ‘No, you’re not,’” Momoa recalled. “But I grabbed my son. He’d never been in a mosh pit. And I was like, ‘You’re going with me, boy.’”
In July 2025, Osbourne died just weeks after his final onstage performance as part of Black Sabbath. His cause of death was cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease.
The rocker was survived by his wife, Sharon, to whom he had been married since 1982, and their children: daughters Aimee, 42, and Kelly, 41, and son Jack, 40. The singer also shared daughter Jessica, 51, and son Louis, 49, with ex-wife Thelma Riley.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” Osbourne’s family said in a statement shared with Us Weekly at the time. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family’s privacy at this time.”
According to his friend Tom Morello, who worked on Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning farewell gig, Osbourne was aware he was near the end of his life at the time of his final gig.
Morello told Chicago’s Q101 radio station in August 2025 that Osbourne was “frail” for a while in the lead up to his death.
“The fact he lived to play and feel that love one more time, to do ‘Paranoid’, to do ‘Crazy Train’. If you have got to go — and I wish Ozzy lived another 30 years — if you’ve got to go out … it felt like he knew,” Morello said on the radio show.
Describing Osbourne’s death as “tragic,” Morello added, “Ozzy Osbourne had lived on the edge for such a long time; the fact he lived as long as he did was a miracle.”
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