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Ozzy Osbourne has opened up about his well-documented battle with drug and alcohol addiction.<\/p>\n
The 74-year-old Black Sabbath star has admitted he should have died in a candid new interview.<\/p>\n
The British star reflected on how some of his other fellow aged metal heads had passed away and he remained the \u201clast one standing\u201d.<\/p>\n
Among his late friends were UFO bass player and co-founder Pete Way, who died in 2020, and Mot\u00f6rhead founder Lemmy, who died in 2015.<\/p>\n
Accepting the Rolling Stone UK Icon Award on Thursday (November 23), Ozzy opened up about his mortality and compared himself to his deceased contemporaries.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:\u00a0Sharon Osbourne admits husband Ozzy doesn\u2019t like her weight loss transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n He told Rolling Stone: \u201cI should have been dead before loads of them. Why am I the last man standing?<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes I look in the \u00admirror and go, ‘Why the f**k did you make it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Ozzy went on to say how should have been \u201cdead a thousand times\u201d and had his stomach pumped on countless occasions.<\/p>\n The interview comes as Ozzy has suffered from ill health, most notably being diagnosed with a mild form of Parkinson\u2019s Disease back in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He only went public with the diagnosis nearly two decades later in 2020.<\/p>\n Moreover, Ozzy suffered a fall in 2019 which led to further health problems after and resulted in metal rods placed in his back to become dislodged.<\/p>\n The rods had been put in his back following his near-death experience in 2003 after a quad bike accident at his home.<\/p>\n Ozzy revealed how the second surgery on his spine went \u201cdrastically wrong\u201d and led to more times under the knife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To add to his woes, the doctors found a tumour in his vertebrae which had to be removed.<\/p>\n The star has also opened up about his five-year surgery hell in the hopes of getting back to himself.<\/p>\n He admitted since the surgery his balance was \u201call f**ked up\u201d.<\/p>\n Ozzy\u2019s devoted wife Sharon Osbourne attended the Rolling Stone UK Awards yesterday and accepted the gong on behalf of her husband.<\/p>\n Sadly, Ozzy was too ill to travel but the accolade recognised his 55 years in the music industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Ozzy Osbourne has opened up about his well-documented battle with drug and alcohol addiction. The 74-year-old Black Sabbath star has admitted he should have died in a candid new interview. The British star reflected on how some of his other fellow aged metal heads had passed away and he remained the \u201clast one standing\u201d. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}