Pink Floyd founding bass guitarist Roger Waters is under fire by Ozzy Osbourne’s family over comments he made about the late singer.
Osbourne, who died July 22 just weeks after delivering his final performance at Back to the Beginning, became Waters’ target during an interview with The Independent Ink earlier this year.
“Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him in his… whatever that state that he was in his whole life,” Waters said. “We’ll never know. Although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense.
“The music, I have no idea. I couldn’t give a fuck.”
All three members of Osbourne’s family — Ozzy’s wife Sharon and their two children, Kelly and Jack — addressed Waters’ comments on a new episode of The Osbournes Podcast.
“That leads me on to somebody who is not special, that is probably one of the most twisted, sick individuals I’ve come across in years,” Sharon says on the podcast.
“Oh, you’re talking about my mate Roger?” Jack asks.
Adds Kelly, “He’s a fucking c**t.”
“He isn’t,” Sharon replies, “because c**ts are good. He has no charisma, okay? He looks like Frankenstein.”
Jack Osbourne had previous called out Waters on social media in September.
“Hey @rogerwaters, fuck you," he wrote on X. "How pathetic and out of touch you've become. The only way you seem to get attention these days is by vomiting out bullshit in the press."
He continued, "My father always thought you were a c**t — thanks for proving him right. 🤡 #fuck-rogerwaters.”
Hey @rogerwaters fuck you. How pathetic and out of touch you’ve become. The only way you seem to get attention these days is by vomiting out bullshit in the press. My father always thought you were a cunt — thanks for proving him right. 🤡 #fuckrogerwatersSeptember 2, 2025
Jack noted in the podcast that his response likely generated the most press Waters had received in years .
“That's why my dad always thought you were a c**t — because it's true! Dad would always be like, ‘I love Pink Floyd. I fucking hate Roger Waters.’ But dad would never say that publicly, because you don't do that.”
Added Sharon, “Do you know what he is? He’s like a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable human being — a miserable, ugly human being.”
“The guy is sick in the head,” she went on to say. “He is not relevant in today’s world. Nobody likes him. It’s not just us. Nobody likes this man. … unless you’re a fascist.
“I don’t know how those guys in Pink Floyd put up with them as long as they did. David [Gilmour] is the most gracious, warm person you could ever meet.”
In fact, Waters did come under fire by Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson,
In February 2023, she attacked him in a merciless tweet which, among other choice words, labelled him as “anti-Semitic” to the “rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac.”
The electric guitar legend backed up his wife adding, “Every word demonstrably true.”
Those comments were among others by Gilmour that reinforce the argument that Pink Floyd will not be reuniting any time soon.
