Ozzy osbourne mental illness

Ozzy Osbourne is out of his mind. Not in the ‘bite a head off a bat and piss on the Alamo’ way, but in a more present sense.

He’s climbing the walls after being cooped up for close to three years due to a series of serious health issues and operations.

“It’s been fucking miserable, man,” he says, speaking over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles.

“I’m not good at this. I’ve never been this laid up in my life – I could barely walk at one point.”  

Ozzy’s problem dates back to his quad biking accident in December 2003, in which he sustained six broken ribs, a broken neck vertebra and a broken collarbone, necessitating the insertion of metal rods in his body.

Though he seemed to make a full recovery at the time, even playing with a reunited Black Sabbath the fol