Ozzy Osbourne, 74, looks frail as he is seen for the first time since revealing he has ‘at best 10 years left’ and is ‘virtually crippled’ from back surgery where doctors found a tumor
Ozzy Osbourne looked frail as he was first seen since revealing he has “10 years left at best.”
The Black Sabbath rocker, 64, said he has been left “virtually crippled” by multiple back surgeries during which doctors found a tumor on his spine.
Ozzy relied on his cane and an assistant as he arrived to watch the movie Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, during a private screening at the Los Angeles cinema on Tuesday.
Ozzy was left in support and unsteady on his feet after revealing how his ‘balance is all messed up’ following his horrific quad accident and surgery in 2003, which went wrong after a fall in 2019.
This week, the musician gave a candid interview about his health and how he isn’t afraid of dying because he doesn’t want a “long miserable existence” but is still “full of life” inside him.
Ozzy Osbourne looked frail as he was seen for the first time since revealing he ‘has ten more years left at best’
The Black Sabbath rocker, 64, who said he was left “virtually crippled” by multiple back surgeries in which doctors discovered a tumor on his spine, relied on his cane in LA on Tuesday
Ozzy – who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2003 – revealed that doctors found a tumor in his spine during a fourth operation on his back after a fall in 2019.
He told Rolling Stone, Great Britain: ‘I’m not afraid of dying, but I don’t want to live a long, painful and miserable existence.
‘I like the idea that if you have a terminal illness you can go to a place in Switzerland and get it done quickly. I saw my father die cancer.
“But look, I told Sharon I smoked a joint recently and she said, ‘What are you doing that for?
“It’ll fucking kill you!” I said, ‘How long do you fucking want me to live?!’ Best case scenario, I still have ten years left and when you’re older “Time goes by faster. Sharon and I recently celebrated 41 years of marriage, and that’s just incredible to me!”
Describing the series of operations he recently underwent following his fall in 2019, he confessed: ‘It really shocked me. The second surgery went drastically wrong and left me virtually crippled.
‘I thought I would be able to get going 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 rough, man, and my balance is all messed up.”
Last year, the musician underwent “life-changing” surgery to remove and realign a series of pins in his neck and back following a 2003 quad bike accident.
In September, Ozzy revealed on his family’s podcast, The Osbournes Podcast, that another surgery was planned.
Ozzy was pictured arriving to watch the movie Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, during a private screening at the cinema
Ozzy was left feeling unsteady on his feet after revealing how his ‘balance is all messed up’ following his horror quad bike accident in 2003
This week, the musician gave a candid interview about his health and how he isn’t afraid of dying because he doesn’t want a “long miserable existence.”
Ozzy describes the series of surgeries he recently underwent following his 2019 fall: “It really shocked me. The second operation went wrong and I was virtually crippled.”
He said, ‘My lower back is, I’m going for an epidural soon because what’s happening, what they’ve discovered is that the neck has been repaired, under the neck there are two vertebrae where the bike hit me and fell apart, there’s nothing left theirs,’
His son Jack Osbourne asked, “Do they fuse disks?”
Ozzy explained that he “didn’t know” what the medical professionals were going to do, but said, “All I know right now is that I’m in a lot of pain, I’m in a lot of discomfort.”
He recently said he is “struggling” with his health issues and recently had a filter removed from his vein.
Earlier this year, the threat of blood clots affecting Ozzy’s major organs was reduced, with him admitting he was desperate to ‘get on with his life’.
On his Ozzy Speaks SiriusXM channel, he said, “I’m fighting through it, like last Monday, I went to have a filter removed.
When I had the blood clots in my legs, they put a filter in your vein to prevent the blood clots from going to your heart and brain. It sounds worse than it is. So on Monday I went to have it removed.
“The blood clots have you all stuck. It’s just disappointment after disappointment. Get this thing done so I can get on with my life.
Ozzy admitted he is in “constant pain” and added: “I feel like a man with one leg in a kicking ass match. The only thing that keeps me going is making records. But I can’t do that forever.
‘I have to get out of there. I’m still in constant pain. I’m doing my best to stay off the pain medication.’