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- Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters said during a Tuesday, Aug. 12, interview that he didn’t care for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s music
- Ozzy’s son, Jack, responded on Tuesday, Sept. 2, calling the bassist “pathetic”
- Waters’ comments came just weeks after Ozzy died on Tuesday, July 22
Jack Osbourne is calling out Roger Waters for his “pathetic” comments about his late father, Ozzy Osbourne.
Jack responded to the Pink Floyd co-founder’s recent comments about his late father following Osbourne’s death. Waters said he “couldn’t give a f–k” about Ozzy’s band Black Sabbath, in an interview with The Independent Ink, published on Tuesday, Aug. 12.
“I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did, I have no interest,” Waters said. “I couldn’t care less.”
Waters, 81, also remarked on Osbourne as a person, saying, “Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him, in his whatever that state that he was in his whole life. We’ll never know, we didn’t, you know? Although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense.”
Jack, 39, replied with a statement posted to his Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
“Hey @rogerwaters. F–k You. How pathetic and out of touch you’ve become,” he wrote. “The only way you seem to get attention these days is by vomiting out bulls— in the press.”
“My father always thought you were a c— – thanks for proving him right 🤡,” he wrote.
He added a second Instagram Story and wrote, “# f—rogerwaters.”
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Jack’s response to Waters follows his sister Kelly’s response to WWE star Becky Lynch’s comments about their father. On Monday, Aug. 25, during the live broadcast of RAW, Lynch, 38, said that she wasn’t wrestling in Ozzy’s hometown of Birmingham. “The only good thing that came outta here died a month ago,” the Women’s Intercontinental Champion told the crowd, who booed at her comments.
The next day, Kelly, 40, shared Instagram Stories and called out Lynch.
“@beckylynchfanll, you are a disrespectful dirtbag! Birmingham would not piss on you if you were on fire,” Kelly began her statement, seemingly tagging a fan account and not Lynch’s. “#birminghamforever shame on the @wwe for allowing such things to be said about my father and his home!!!”
Ozzy died on Tuesday, July 22, at 76. His death came weeks after he performed from a throne at the final Black Sabbath concert in Birmingham’s Villa Park.
“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,” a statement from Ozzy’s family obtained by PEOPLE read. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
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The legendary rock star died of “out-of-hospital cardiac arrest” and “acute myocardial infarction,” with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction listed as “joint causes,” according to a death certificate obtained by PEOPLE.
Ahead of his funeral, the rock star was honored with a funeral procession in Birmingham on July 30. Thousands of fans lined the streets of his hometown to say goodbye. Ozzy was laid to rest in a private ceremony later that day in Buckinghamshire, per BBC News.