Ozzy Osbourne has admitted he is using drugs again, but he is hiding it from his wife Sharon.
The 75-year-old Black Sabbath star has reportedly started smoking marijuana again and has been ‘tempted to return to stronger drugs’ due to his health problems, which have recently prevented him from returning to Britain.
He is believed to be struggling with Parkinson’s disease as well as his recent neck and back problems.
Ozzy, who relies on a wheelchair and crutches, has previously struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and admitted to occasionally returning to ‘weed’.
He said on his Madhouse Chronicles podcast: ‘I’m happier, but I’m not completely sober. I use a little marijuana every now and then.’
Ozzy Osbourne has admitted he’s using drugs again, but he’s hiding it from his wife Sharon (pictured in 2020)
The 75-year-old Black Sabbath star has reportedly started smoking marijuana again and has been ‘tempted to return to stronger drugs’ due to his health problems (pictured in 1983)
The Prince of Darkness praised his wife, 71, for being his constant motivation to keep him from falling back into his old habits, but cannabis, legal in LA, has slowly crept back into his life.
“I’m lucky that my wife is constantly kicking my ass and she would make life so difficult,” he said. “Even with marijuana, she’ll get the hell out of it and get rid of it.”
On the podcast, Ozzy also revealed how he tried getting enough ketamine “to fuel him up” after he was offered the medical sleep drug during surgery.
“I recently went to a doctor and started taking this ketamine,” he explained.
“He put a little bit into me, but that was enough to make me spark. That thing came back and taxed my brain.”
He admitted that although he had stopped attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, he now questions whether that was the right decision.
He said, “If you’re out there doing dope and you want to get rid of it, there’s plenty of help out there.
‘AA is a twelve-step program. It has sorted me out to some extent. I no longer go to meetings myself. Maybe I should, I don’t know.’
He is believed to be struggling with Parkinson’s disease as well as his recent neck and back problems
Ozzy, who relies on a wheelchair and crutches to get around, has previously struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and admitted to occasionally returning to ‘weed’ (LR Kelly, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne IN 2020)
Ozzy, who has spoken openly about his addiction problems, believes that many rock stars and musicians who use California’s approach of ‘microdosing’ drugs are risking their lives. He said microdosing wouldn’t work for him.
The rock ‘n’ roll legend admitted that during the height of his fame in the 1970s, he felt like he “couldn’t do anything creatively sober.”
‘I was the king of the world, a rock star and I had the biggest party ever. The thing is, I never thought I could do anything with creativity (while sober).”
Ozzy has previously admitted he feels he should have died years before some of his late ‘drinking buddies’ after a battle with drink and drugs.
He said he wonders why he is still alive.
Ozzy discussed how he feels about outliving his friends, including Motorhead star Lemmy and UFO bassist Pete Way, who he performed with in the 1980s.
He said: ‘I’ve been thinking a lot while I’ve been laid up, and all my drinking partners, I’ve realized they’re all dead.
‘I should have been dead before a lot of them. Why am I the last man standing? Sometimes I look in the mirror and think, ‘Why on earth did you make it?’.
Ozzy has previously admitted he feels he should have died years before some of his late ‘drinking friends’ after a battle with drink and drugs
He said he now wonders why he is still alive (pictured in 2018)
‘I should have died a thousand times. I’ve had my stomach pumped god knows how many times.’
Ozzy, who has sold more than 100 million records during his illustrious career, announced his plans to retire from touring earlier this year.
The British musician was diagnosed with a mild form of Parkinson’s disease in 2003, but did not go public with the condition until 2020.
Ozzy has said his biggest struggles are due to a fall he suffered in 2019 that dislodged metal rods in his back.
The bars had been placed there after a quad bike accident at his home in Buckinghamshire in 2003.
He told Rolling Stone UK magazine: ‘The second operation went drastically wrong and left me virtually crippled.
‘I thought I would be able to start again after the second and third, but during the last one they put a rod in my spine.
‘They found a tumor in one of the vertebrae, so they had to dig all of that out too. It’s pretty heavy, man, and my balance is all messed up.”
Ozzy discussed how he feels about outliving his friends, including Motorhead star Lemmy and UFO bassist Pete Way, with whom he performed in the 1980s
Last year Ozzy’s wife Sharon proudly accepted the Icon honorary trophy for her sick husband at the Rolling Stone UK Awards at London’s Camden Roundhouse.
Ozzy was late to travel to the star-studded ceremony where the ‘Prince of Darkness’ was honored for his 55 years in the music industry.
The rock ‘n’ roll star rose to prominence in the 1970s as the lead singer of heavy metal band Black Sabbath and was due to give a speech at the ceremony.
A beaming Sharon gave a rousing speech on behalf of her husband before introducing a video message from the man himself.
Sharon said: ‘Sometimes I felt so helpless and so sorry for Ozzy. He had all these surgeries and it all felt like a nightmare.
“He hasn’t lost his sense of humor, but when I look at my husband, he’s here while everyone else is on the road.
“This is the longest time he hasn’t worked. Being home for so long has been so strange for him.”
