Sharon Osbourne has given an update on husband Ozzy after he underwent ‘major’ spinal surgery
(Picture: Getty Images for The Recording A)Rockstar and former reality star Ozzy Osbourne has revealed the bleak health update that doctors have given him.
The 73-year-old told The Sun that doctors told him “you’ve got a good chance of being paralysed for the rest of your life” following his first spinal surgery.
The former Black Sabbath singer has undergone life-changing surgery with painkillers in the last three years in a mission to get his life back following a nasty bathroom fall at his Los Angeles mansion in 2019.
Prior to this, the star had broken his neck in a quad bike accident at his home, creating injuries which were aggravated 16 years later in the fall.
Despite the forewarning, Osbourne said: “It’s been breaking Sharon’s heart to see me like this but I will get back on tour if it f***ing kills me.”
Just this week, Osbourne performed at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in his home city, Birmingham. This was his first performance since four years ago on New Year’s Eve 2018.
The musician remarked: “Standing on stage in Birmingham, my home town, playing live, it doesn’t get any better than that.”
The songwriter has also previously been diagnosed with Parkin, a genetic condition with symptoms in likeness to Parkinson’s disease.
He said: “I don’t shake at all. My Parkinson’s doctor says, ‘I’ve got to tell you something, I’ve seen all kinds of Parkinson’s but yours is the mildest ever’. I don’t even know how anyone worked out I had it in the first place.”
Osbourne is determined to keep going and has a routine in place to see this through.
To bounce back from his initial surgery and operations, the singer said: “Every morning, I get up and do an hour of physiotherapy, which is slowly working.
“There’s a hill outside my house and I said to my assistant, ‘I’m going to run up that as soon as I can’.”
In the meantime, the musician is preparing his 13th studio album.
Osbourne relies on the support of his close family and friends, especially his currently pregnant daughter Kelly, and the music around him.
He says: “I’ve done two albums since I got sick and if I hadn’t had anything to do with music, I’d have gone f***ing insane.”
