The musician failed to receive your rewards “Grammy” move long live to England
After a 29-year hiatus, Ozzy Osbourne was again honored with a Grammy, and he received two awards – for best rock album and for best metal performance. However, the 74-year-old musician was unable to accept the statuettes in person as his health problems worsened.
On the eve of the prestigious music event, he was photographed moving hard and with an escort as he went to a gym in Los Angeles, where he has lived for the past few years. Speculations began even then that the former vocalist of the group “Black Sabbath” would not be able to continue his solo tour. Just days later, Ozzy Osbourne confirmed this with a message to his millions of followers on social media.
“This is probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to share with my loyal fans. As you know, four years ago I had a major accident in which I damaged my spine. After three surgeries, stem cell treatments, endless physical therapy sessions and a breakthrough drug, my body is still physically weak, preventing me from continuing,” Osborne wrote. He admitted that he never imagined that
it will end this way your music career,
and hopes his team can find a way for him to continue performing in front of audiences, but without having to make grueling trips. His desire is to return to his native England and sell his home in Los Angeles, and also not to stay too long off the stage.
Ozzy Osbourne believes that this time again his super-endurance body will cope with the many challenges. In addition to the serious spinal injury, he suffers from Parkinson’s disease, and last year he had severe covid. In 2018, he got an infection as a result of a complication of the flu and had to have surgery on his right hand. While recovering from these problems, he collapsed at home. “It was the biggest nightmare of my life. I wasn’t scared, but I knew something bad had happened. I thought I was paralyzed and asked my wife Sharon to call an ambulance,” the musician revealed.
His hunch turns out to be true. The impact dislodged metal rods placed in his body in 2003. Then Ozzy crashed his ATV and was so mangled that even
his heart stops briefly
by his wife’s admission. Recovery is long and painful. He spent two months in hospital and underwent three operations.
“I have 15 screws in my spine. I’m like a superhero put together with screws, but the truth is, I haven’t felt like a superhero in a long time. I felt terrible,” he adds. He has to stay almost motionless for three months and be cared for around the clock by nurses. The pain is indescribable and he uses cannabis oil to sleep. “Trust me, I’ve seen Martians a few times without injecting anything into my arm to make that happen,” admits the Black Sabbath founder. He is considered a medical miracle after all the trauma he endured and the systematic abuse of drugs, alcohol and pills for decades.
Ozzy Osbourne became infamous after biting off the head of a bat on stage during a concert in 1982. Then he repeats the shocking incident with two pigeons, which earns him the nickname Prince of Darkness. He claims that he did not do it for advertising purposes, but simply because he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. He was arrested many times, including for
attempt to kill to his wife Sharon
He tries to strangle her after drinking four bottles of vodka, combining it with a cocktail of drugs. At the time, all three of their children were under the age of 7, and Ozzy has no memory of what happened. He wakes up in a cramped cell, and when he asks what he did, the guard informs him that he wanted to strangle his wife in a moment of drunken stupor.
Sharon became his wife in 1982 and later his manager. Because of the musician’s infidelities, drinking and drugs, they are on the verge of divorce several times. The last time the two split was in 2016, when it became clear that Ozzy was having an affair with hairdresser Michelle Pugh. Their romance lasted about half a year, and after it ended, he returned to Sharon again. Today he calls her God and explains that they have never been as close as they are now.
Sharon is the daughter of Black Sabbath manager Don Arden. When they meet, Ozzy is married to his first wife, Thelma Riley, but has already started cheating on her, getting drunk and taking drugs. After 10 years of marriage, the two separated, leaving their three children with her.
Knowing the world of show business well, Sharon thinks she can handle Ozzy’s disruptive behavior. He repeatedly sent him to treatment for addictions to alcohol, drugs and sex. Once she even decided to hide all his clothes so that he would have nothing to go out drinking with. However, he puts on her dress and goes to a bar. Ozzy drugged and drank for four decades, claiming he had had enough
up to 4 bottles concentrate per day
in combination with 42 sedative pills. In the last ten years, he has been clean, but a number of health problems stopped his musical career several times. Even after the severe spinal operations, he is depressed and does not want to get out of bed.
He admits that if it hadn’t been for Sharon encouraging him every day to make an effort, he would hardly have made it because he fell into self-pity and often thought about death. “She told me: You have to get out of bed, and I answered: What’s the point, I’m dying,” the musician says. The question of death has always preoccupied him greatly because of his excessive use of drugs and alcohol. “When I was 25, I thought I wasn’t going to live to 40. When I got there, I thought maybe it’s worth going a little longer,” he recalls. Now he’s hoping for another chance to get back on stage.
