Ozzy Osbourne thought-about ending his personal life
Black Sabbath legend Ozzy Osbourne as soon as thought-about taking his personal life because of the botched neck surgical procedure that prevented him from acting on stage and compelled him into early retirement.
Within the upcoming Paramount + documentary “Ozzy: No Escape From Now,” the late rock legend – who handed away in July, admitted he as soon as suffered from suicidal ideas.
Ozzy Osbourne goes candid
“The considered not doing any gigs anymore – I went actually into despair,” he stated within the documentary. “I’m on antidepressants now, truly. As a result of I used to be on the point of off myself sooner or later.”
The heavy steel singer-songwriter confronted a number of bodily well being challenges all through his life. In 2003, he barely survived an ATV accident when his quad flipped over and landed on him whereas he was driving on his property in London. In 2019, he underwent surgical procedure following a severe fall, and he had one other operation in 2022. His most up-to-date surgical procedure passed off in September 2023.
“I’ll go [to s**cide] in my head and I’m going, ‘What are you f—ing speaking about?’ As a result of realizing me, I’d half-do it, and I’d be half-dead and… I wouldn’t die, you recognize,” he says within the documentary. “That’s my luck.”
Ozzy’s spouse, Sharon, said that the neck surgical procedures performed a serious function in her husband’s declining well being. Surgical screws and steel plates had been used, “which didn’t want doing,” Sharon stated within the doc.
“[Those] triggered much more harm,” she added.
“The Parkinson’s is progressing, however the primary downside is the nerve harm from the unhealthy neck surgical procedure,” Ozzy and Sharon’s son, Jack, stated.
“That f—ing physician simply stripped him, you recognize, of his skills to maneuver.”
“It makes me so offended, as a result of I felt like all this might have been averted. It didn’t need to occur,” he stated, turning into emotional.
In 2023, Osbourne introduced the cancellation of his tour dates attributable to a spinal damage that hindered his means to carry out. He acknowledged that whereas his “singing voice is ok” however he felt bodily weak after present process three surgical procedures, stem cell remedies, bodily remedy, and Hybrid Assistive Limb remedy, which makes use of a robotic exoskeleton to boost motion.
Ozzy Osbourne didn’t need to focus on dying
Ozzy Osbourne and his household didn’t like discussing mortality. Nonetheless, however there was one essential dialog the rocker did have together with his spouse Sharon.
Osbourne, who handed away on July twenty second, 2025, at age 76, wrote in his new memoir Final Rites that his spouse and youngsters would usually shut down any dialog about his dying. Nonetheless, there was one factor he and Sharon, 72, did focus on.
“The one dialog I’ve had with Sharon was after we determined we wished to be buried collectively,” he wrote within the e-book. “I’ve additionally stated to Sharon, don’t you dare go earlier than me. It’s my largest concern now, Sharon leaving this world earlier than I do. If she does, I gained’t be too far behind. I dwell for the girl.”
Osbourne additionally dispelled any rumor of a “s**cide pact” between the couple, who married in 1982 and shared daughters Aimee, and Kelly, and son Jack.
“That’s bulls—. We simply don’t need some drawn-out finish on a respiratory tube,” he defined.
Osbourne handed away simply days after participating within the long-awaited Again to the Starting farewell live performance with Black Sabbath on July 5. Final Rites covers the final seven or so years of his life, together with his rising variety of well being issues and his battle to get again on stage one final time.
