After insisting he wasn’t dying, Ozzy Osbourne has revealed he once thought he was – and that wife Sharon was keeping it from him.
The star was afraid he was on his last legs after battling multiple different ailments throughout 2019.
In a bout of rather bad health luck, the Black Sabbath rocker, 70, was first hospitalised with pneumonia at the beginning of this year, and shortly afterwards suffered a fall at his LA home, which dislodged the metal rods in his spine that had been put in after a quad-bike accident in 2003.
Speaking about his health woes, the rocker says the fall led him to believe he was going to die, because he thought he was paralysed and knew the injuries were bad.
He recently said: ‘I went to the bathroom in the night, lost my balance and landed flat on my face. I saw this big white flash when I hit the floor and I thought, “You’ve finally done it now”.
‘I knew it was bad, I thought I was paralysed, so very calmly I said, “Sharon, I can’t move. I think I’ve done my neck. Phone an ambulance”. ‘
The musician underwent three separate operations that left him in hospital for three months.
Ozzy was in ‘constant’ pain, and even believed his wife was lying to him when she said he wasn’t going to die.
He added to Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine: ‘The pain is constant. The first six months I was in agony. I’d say, “Sharon – you’re not telling me the truth. I’m dying, aren’t I?” I thought I’d got some terminal illness because the improvement was so slow.
‘I’m getting better, but after the surgery the nurses asked me on a scale of one to ten how much pain I was in, and I said, “55!” Six months of waking up in the morning and being unable to move is a miserable existence.’
Thankfully the War Pigs hitmaker is on the mend following his scary year, but he’s joked he already has his funeral planned.
‘I’ve cheated death many times and I’ve got away with it for years, yet since I hit 70 everything’s happened. But then I thought I’d be dead by 40, so I’ve still got a few of my nine lives yet,’ he said.
‘When I die and they’re nailing the lid on my coffin. I’m thinking of having them play a recording of my voice at the service, shouting, “I’m not dead yet!” That’ll scare them!’
Ozzy had previously had to pushed back dates on the UK and European leg of his No More Tours 2 tour. Originally planned for this year, after being hospitalised with pneumonia and a subsequent fall in January, he had to tweak the date.
After rescheduling the concerts to take place between January 2020 and March 2020, earlier this month he was forced to postpone due to needing more time to recover from the surgery he underwent.
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