Roger Waters recently defended controversial comments he made about the late Ozzy Osbourne. He addressed the issue in an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Waters has doubled down on his criticism of Ozzy Osbourne, stating that he doesn’t regret the comments he made and adding that he “was honest.”
Roger Waters slams Osbourne family
In September 2025, Waters made derogatory comments about Ozzy Osbourne, who had passed away just two months prior, on July 22. The Osbourne family swiftly responded uniquely.
Waters has now addressed the criticism he received from the Osbourne family.
“So those comments, I’m not denying that I said them, came in the middle of a long interview, called the Independent, Inc. In the middle of an hour and a half long interview,” Waters said. “Well, I mean, do I have to like every rock group there ever was in the world? I obviously I had no idea that Sharon Osbourne would be watching a podcast by a very well-known cartoonist.”
When pressed about apologizing for any hurt caused, Waters offered a conditional response. However, when specifically asked to apologize to the Osbourne family for his comments about Ozzy, Waters was more reluctant.
“Yeah, of course I will. If I cause, not that I have any time for Sharon Osbourne. She’s a raging Zionist and she’s all accused me of all kinds of things,” he responded.
“Not really. Well, Jack, you know, Jack Osbourne, if he wants to have a chat, I’ll have a chat. Happily, and I won’t be nasty to him. I’m sorry you lost your dad, Jack, but this is like you have conversations about things and about people in ‘What do you think?’ Well, not a lot. I was honest. I said I didn’t like Black Sabbath, but that’s not I think I’ve listened to some of it since,” Waters continued. “And the music is perfectly kind of, it was all the kind of histrionics of I don’t like people who bite the heads off bats. I just don’t. I think it’s disgusting.”
