Ozzy Osbourne has spoken for the first time about his difficult journey with his health, including recovering from a major operation this summer and his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
In a In a new interview with The Observer, the 73-year-old leader of Black Sabbath revealed that his operation last June was to remove two metal plates that they had been screwed into his spine in a previous surgery.
His wife Sharon Osbourne previously described the procedure as one that would “determine the rest of his life”.
“The screws had loosened and were chipping the bone. The remains had lodged under his spine. So this one instead of being like this, was like this”, Sharon pointed out, straightening up and then slouching, in the middle.
“By pressing on the spine, my nerves hurt. I had never heard of nerve pain. Ozzy added for his part.
“You know when you’re a kid and you’re playing in the snow and your hands get really cold? So you go and pour hot water on yourself, and they start to get hot. And you get those chills? And does it hurt? It is so. I was so bad that at one point I thought, ‘Oh God, please don’t let me wake up tomorrow morning.’ Because it was a great agony“, he said.
The musician added that his ailments are usually aggravated by his Parkinson’s disease , which was diagnosed in 2003, since it is constantly difficult for him to walk.
“You think you are lifting your feet, but they don’t move. I feel like I’m walking in lead boots”, he added, pointing out that Parkinson’s has taken its toll on his mental health and has depressed him.
“I reached a lower level than I thought” Ozzy said of his state of mind.
“Nothing felt really good. Any. So I started taking antidepressants and they have worked.”
Ozzy Osbourne
But he admitted that the most frustrating aspect of Parkinson’s is not knowing where it will end: “You learn to live in the moment, because you don’t know [what’s going to happen]. You don’t know when you’re going to wake up and you won’t be able to get out of bed. But you don’t think about it”.
The interpreter of ‘Crazy Train’ praised Sharon for her support in overcoming her health problems, giving her credit for allowing him to continue acting.
“Without my Sharon, I would be flost. From time to time we argue a bit, but otherwise we move on”, he said.
Sharon added that she will not let her husband be defined by his Parkinson’s disease and is now helping him deal with the muscle “wasting” that has weakened his body.