Sharon Osbourne Recollects Ozzy Attempting to Stab Ronnie James Dio

Within the new documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now, Sharon Osbourne recalled that Ozzy tried stabbing Ronnie James Dio with a fork when the singers first met.

The movie will premiere solely on Paramount+ tomorrow (Oct. 7). Rolling Stone coated a number of revelations from the doc forward of its launch, one among which was how The Prince of Darkness felt about Dio towards the top of his life.

Apparently, Ozzy spent lots of time watching interviews with Dio on YouTube in recent times and Sharon was perplexed by it.

“It was like, ‘Why are you watching Ronnie?’” Sharon mentioned. “He goes, ‘I really feel sorry for him. I really feel horrible.’ He by no means actually listened to any of these [Black Sabbath] data in any respect. He by no means knew Ronnie.

“The primary time he met him was when he tried to stab him on the Rainbow [Bar and Grill]… with a fork. He by no means actually knew the man and by no means knew his music. So he feels actually dangerous. So he watches Ronnie James Dio interviews and I’m like, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’”

Dio joined Black Sabbath in 1979, the identical 12 months Ozzy was fired from the group. One other factor that was revealed within the documentary was that Ozzy by no means fairly received over his firing from Sabbath, regardless that he reunited together with his bandmates a number of instances within the following many years and one final time in July of this 12 months.

“He’ll by no means recover from that,” Kelly Osbourne admitted. “Ever. Ever ever ever. It damage him greater than something anybody can put into phrases. It destroyed him. These had been his brothers. These had been his prolonged household and all he knew.”

See the trailer for the doc towards the underside of the web page.

What Has Ozzy Mentioned About Ronnie James Dio within the Previous?

Ozzy spoke about why he by no means listened to Dio-era Sabbath albums a number of years in the past throughout a SiriusXM interview. He praised the singer however admitted it was painful to listen to his bandmates with one other voice.

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“Ronnie did a superb job,” Ozzy mentioned [via Ultimate Classic Rock]. “On the time I used to be fucking unhappy as a result of … they had been the one factor that ever actually occurred to me… It is like my ex-wife … [when] you allow a band like that, it is similar to getting divorced. You do not go, ‘How’s your new bloke? Is he higher than me?'”

Dio died from abdomen most cancers in Could of 2010. Ozzy expressed his condolences for the singer, writing in an announcement “I used to be very saddened to listen to of the passing of Ronnie James Dio. Steel has really misplaced one among its biggest voices. My coronary heart goes out to his household and to his many followers” [via CT Insider].

Sharon Osbourne Recollects Ozzy Attempting to Stab Ronnie James Dio When They First Met