It has been a tough road to recovery for rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, following a string of serious health ailments since going public with his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.
In fact, things have taken a turn for the worse, in terms of his mounting health battles, over the course of the last few years that saw him suffer from a serious bout of the flu, a life-threatening staph infection and a nasty fall inside his Los Angeles home while recovering from pneumonia.
But good news is on the horizon as his beloved wife of nearly 40 years, Sharon Osbourne, is now reassuring his legion of fans that he has to get through one more surgery before he can put any ideas of moving back to the UK into motion.
Ozzy health update: Sharon Osbourne, 69, opened up about husband Ozzy Osbourne’s health battles of recent years during an interview with Piers Morgan on his TalkTV show Uncensored
One more big hurdle: ‘He’s got one more operation left to do and then he’s dying to come back home,’ Sharon Osbourne said, in a reference moving from Los Angeles back to the UK
Sharon, who has been credited with helping resurrect Ozzy’s career as a solo artist beginning in 1979, made a guest appearance on Piers Morgan’s new TalkTV show Uncensored.
During the interview, he gushed over Ozzy, calling him ‘one of my favorite people in the world’, before asking about what he called his ‘health wars’, as reported by Mirror.
‘He’s doing okay, he sends you his love,’ Sharon, 69, began, before sharing about his last hurdle he has to endure.
‘He’s got one more operation left to do and then he’s dying to come back home,’ she said, in a what appeared to be a reference to them moving from Los Angeles back to the UK.
The interview: Morgan called Ozzy Osbourne ‘one of my favorite people in the world’, before asking about what he called the rocker’s ‘health wars’
Health battles: The Black Sabbath legend has had a series of health problems in more recent years that included a staph infection in 2018; flu complications, pneumonia and injuries sustained during a fall at home in 2019; the longtime couple are seen in January 2020
While news of Ozzy revealing he had Parkinson’s disease made headlines in early 2020, the Black Sabbath star has previously said he was first diagnosed in 2003, according to several publications that includes Kerrangand Mirror.
But his more recent series of health issues reared its ugly face, beginning in October 2018, when he underwent surgery after getting a potentially deadly staph infection after a manicure that caused his thumb to swell to tie size of lightbulb. It turns out he contracted three separate staph infections that started in his thumb and spread to his middle finger, according to Rolling Stone.
In February 2019, the No More Tears rocker was hospitalized with flu complications, which led to the postponement of the European leg of his No More Tour 2 tour.
Ozzy would eventually cancel the tour entirely, as well as the rest of his concert dates in 2019, after sustaining serious injuries from a fall in his Los Angeles home while recovering from pneumonia. That fall actually caused him to re-injure his back, neck and shoulders, which resulted in him needing surgery.
The Crazy Train singer-songwriter has also long felt the repercussions from when he crashed a quad-bike at his Buckinghamshire, UK home in 2003 that left him with a number of broken bones, including his neck vertebra, collarbone and eight ribs. Sharon later revealed her husband had stopped breathing following the crash and that his then personal bodyguard, Sam Ruston, resuscitated him.
Emotional: The television personality got visibly upset when she revealed that she, her family, and the family”s dogs got death threats, in the wake of her publicly supporting Piers Morgan in the wake of his comments about Meghan Markle
During the Uncensored interview, the matriarch of the Osbourne family got visibly upset when she revealed that she, her family, and even the family”s dogs got death threats, in the wake of her publicly supporting Morgan and his comments about Meghan Markle.
‘I never thought in my wildest dreams that my career after 50 years would have ended that way,’ she said of the controversy and eventual dismissal from CBS.
‘I must have cried for three months. Never stopped crying.’
She continued: ‘They wanted to kill my dogs. Then they started on Ozzy and I thought, this is just insanity.’
This all stemmed from her publicly supporting Piers Morgan’s negative comments towards Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, in March 2021, resulting in a heated exchange with The Talk co-host Sheryl Underwood.
In the same month, a 2018 clip from The Talk resurfaced in which Osbourne was discussing the Duchess of Sussex’s skin color, where she said that Meghan ‘ain’t Black’ and that ‘she doesn’t look Black.’
Her departure, which followed a hiatus of the show for an investigation, was ultimately made by the end of March 2021.
On a more happier note: Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, who share three children together – daughters Aimee, 38, and Kelly, 37, and son Jack, 36 – are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary on July 4, 2022.
Milestone: Sharon and Ozzy will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on July 4, 2022
