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Trisha Paytas probably feels like a passenger on Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” as the internet continues to push conspiracies that her newborn baby, Aquaman, is the musician reincarnated. “My baby is just a baby y’all,” the social media figure captioned a TikTok post where she played the song with the aside, “What plays in my head 12 days postpartum and the internet won’t stop with the reincarnation conspiracies.”
Paytas gave birth on July 12, but didn’t make the grand reveal online until July 22. Within hours of her announcement, news broke that Osbourne had died at the age of 76. Suddenly, there was a collective sense of déjà vu. As her comment section filled with people joking “Welcome back, Ozzy,” it called to mind the fervor around her daughter Malibu, who was born the same day that Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022. The reincarnation jokes had reincarnated themselves.
“I was so out of my trolling era, and I was in such a good space spiritually,” Paytas told Rolling Stone in 2024. “The fact that my pregnancy got ruined by trolling — now, I guess, it’s kind of funny and karmatic. But it just made me so upset.”
In a follow-up TikTok, Paytas added: “I know reincarnation theories about my babies are just a meme, it’s just what the internet does, but I’m not gonna lie — being 12 days postpartum sometimes make you feel a little cookoo. I’m like, wait, why does the internet keep wanting to put souls into my baby? First of all, reincarnation is only one soul into one baby, if you believe in that. Second of all, you guys, I don’t know much about reincarnation, I just know that the soul has to be passed along.”
She admits that the Queen Elizabeth II jokes were “kind of funny,” though she found the Pope Francis theories (she was pregnant with Aquaman when he died) less comedic. But more than anything, she said, “It makes me sad, it makes me feel like I did something wrong.”
The Osbourne jokes are even more uncomfortable for her. “Ozzy has real family, he is such an icon,” she said. “It’s more real. Ozzy’s more real. There’s real people involved and I don’t know if they would love being tied to [him] being reincarnated. They just lost him. And then everyone else passing away, it’s not my uterus doing it.”
