Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he has undergone surgery for the final time to repair a spinal injury sustained in a late-night fall in 2019.
“I can’t believe I’ve come to the end of it,” he said on Talk TV to Piers Morgan. “It’s been five years of absolute hell for me and the family.”
The fall worsened an injury he acquired in a quad-bike crash in 2003, impairing his ability to walk.
However, he stated that he would refuse any more surgical operations.
“It’s going to be the final surgery because I can’t do it anymore,” he remarked in an edition of The Osbournes Podcast last Saturday, a day before his next procedure.
“Regardless of how it turns out, that’s it after tomorrow.” I’m not doing anything else. I can’t.”
When asked how he felt about the operation, Ozzy said, “It’s fine. I’ve undergone so much surgery in the last five years that going for a [expletive] haircut now feels like a [expletive] haircut.”
He stated that while his health had “improved somewhat,” he still had mobility issues.
“My feet feel like they’re tied to a brick,” he explained.
Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he has undergone surgery for the final time to repair a spinal injury sustained in a late-night fall in 2019.
“I walked upstairs and downstairs today for the first time in a long time – and my feet feel like they’re wearing diving boots.”
“I believe it’s nerves.” “When I did my spine in, the nerves were all [messed up].”
The Black Sabbath frontman wanted to leave the house to “walk around the block,” but was concerned about paparazzi “waiting to ambush me everywhere.”
“When they photograph me, my mouth is half-open or I’m bent over, and it’s like, ‘Ozzy’s on his last legs,'” he explained. “I’m not on my last legs yet.”
The 74-year-old announced his retirement from touring in February of this year but a month later indicated he planned to return to the stage at some point in the future.
He was scheduled to perform alongside Metallica, AC/DC, and Guns N’ Roses at the Power Trip festival in California next month. He did, however, withdraw from the lineup in July.
“Unfortunately, my body is telling me that I’m just not ready yet,” he said. “I am far too proud to have the first show that I do in nearly five years be half-assed.”
‘This is a really horrible scene.’
Osbourne has had many health issues recently, ranging from COVID-19 to Parkinson’s Disease, which he was diagnosed with in 2003 but did not officially declare until 2020.
Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he has undergone surgery for the final time to repair a spinal injury sustained in a late-night fall in 2019.
After slipping and falling in 2019, doctors implanted metal plates in his neck, but these caused him extra difficulty and had to be removed.
On an earlier episode of The Osbournes Podcast on September 12, he revealed that he would require more surgery.
“I’m getting an epidural soon because they discovered the neck has been fixed,” he explained, “but below the neck there’s two vertebrae where the bike hit me and disintegrated, nothing left of ’em.”
He also stated that the injury had altered his posture.
“In my back, the two discs and the muscles on my shoulders have separated from my skeleton, which is why I lean forward as gravity pulls my head forward.”
“I was thinking to myself as [the doctor] said it, ‘I’ve walked like that my whole life.'”
Osbourne thanked his family for their support after the surgery, telling Morgan, “It’s been a really bad scene.”
“It changes your whole life,” Sharon explained. “Our lives have drastically changed.
“Conversely, it’s wonderful that I’ve had Ozzy at home for the past five years.” He drives me insane, yet we’ve been together daily for five years.”
His son, Jack, stated that contrary to popular belief, his father’s physical condition was not caused by Parkinson’s disease.
“I have Parkinson’s disease, but I never think about it,” Ozzy ended.
SOURCE – (BBC)
