Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne Visit CBS SUNDAY MORNING Today, 10/14

Adapting to life as an empty nester doesn't come easy for Sharon Osbourne, the outgoing matriarch of the first family of reality TV and a co-host of CBS's daytime series THE TALK. Turns out it's just the opposite for her husband, heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne, the couple tells Lee Cowan on this weekend's CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH Charles Osgood.

"I love it, but she can't stand it," Ozzy tells Cowan of being without their kids.

"It was one of the worst things that I've ever had to adapt to," Sharon says. "You come home and the house is empty and quiet." Adds Ozzy, "I absolutely love it being quiet."

Ten years ago they starred with two of their children in the MTV reality show "The Osbournes." Now they're grandparents who live alone outside of Los Angeles.

"Our lives were never the same again," Sharon says of the run on reality TV. "Everybody's grown up with Ozzy, everybody loves Ozzy, but for us we were a family. You know, we weren't in the public eye at all, and it changed our lives so much."

The reality show put the family on display in ways they'd not experienced before. It was during the run of the show that Sharon was diagnosed with colon cancer. The cameras captured it all.

"I watched my wife battle cancer for nine months, having three chemotherapy treatments for nine months," Ozzy says. "And every time she'd have her chemotherapy she'd get really whacked out and she'd be throwing up and seizures and all this. I was like, 'I'm watching my wife die in front of the cameras.'"

Sharon says the decision to continue on with the show while battling cancer was to make her children feel safe. She says she "didn't want them to think that I was anywhere near that stage."

She says she has no regrets in doing the reality show, but adds it ended at the right time. They've been able to parlay that experience into other projects. Now she appears weekdays on THE TALK.

The Osbournes have been together 30 years. During that time, Ozzy says they've experienced the highest of highs and the lowest lows. Sharon recalls a period when they lived to extremes. "We'd love too much, we would fight too much – really a lot of it alcohol-driven on both our sides." But they survived and stayed together. "It's easy to go, 'It's over, I'm out. I'm going. Goodbye,'" Sharon says. "That's so easy. And when you love someone, you got to work it out."

Cowan's full interview will be broadcast today, Oct. 14 on CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH Charles Osgood (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Rand Morrison is the executive producer.

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