Ozzy Osbourne recently updated fans on his health status saying during an interview, “This f-cking press drive you nuts. I mean, I looked in the magazine, ‘Ozzy’s on his last legs.’ I’m f-cking not dying, Come on, guys. Haven’t I’ve had it bad enough already? If I get OK today, if the doctor said to me today, ‘Oh, you can tour,’ it would take another six months to get it together, you know?”
Just a month back, Osbourne announced he was retiring from touring saying, “Never would I have imagined that my touring days would have ended this way.”
Osbourne recently added to that saying, “I’ve been working my guts out to try and get back on my feet. I’ve come to the point where Sharon says to me, ‘You know what? The truth of the matter is you can’t keep booking tours and failing, canceling, So, if I can ever get back to where I can tour again, fine. But right now, if you said to me, ‘Can you go on the road in a month?’ I couldn’t say yes. I mean, if I could tour, I’d tour. But right now I can’t book tours because right now I don’t think I could pull them off.”
Osbourne continued to discuss how music keeps him going saying, “The only thing I’ve got that keeps me going is making records. But I can’t do that forever. I gotta get out there, I do to the best I can to stay away from the pain medication, but there are times when I go, “You know, I’ve gotta take something. … I mean, last week I couldn’t, I’ve been sleeping great and all of sudden for two back-to-back nights I never slept a wink. If you gotta torture me, just keep me awake for a couple of days. I’ll tell you whatever the f-ck you want me to say.”
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