Ozzy Osbourne says he doesn’t fear death.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone UK, the 74-year-old Prince of Darkness opened up about his current view on death, and how long he thinks he has “left” to live.
“I said to [wife] Sharon [Osbourne] that I’d smoked a joint recently and she said, ‘What are you doing that for! It’ll f—— kill you!’ I said, ‘How long do you want me to f—— live for?!’” he told the outlet.
“At best I’ve got 10 years left and when you’re older, time picks up speed,” he continued. “Me and Sharon had our 41st wedding anniversary recently, and that’s just unbelievable to me!”
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During the discussion, Ozzy revealed that he’d also been thinking about his friends who have died, and how “all my drinking partners” are “f—— dead.”
“I should have been dead way before loads of them,” he added. “Why am I the last man standing? I don’t understand any of it. Sometimes I look in the mirror and go, ‘Why the f— did you make it?!’ I’m not boasting about any of it because I should have been dead a thousand times. I’ve had my stomach pumped God knows how many times.”
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The Black Sabbath frontman also revealed that he doesn’t necessarily “fear dying.”
“But I don’t want to have a long, painful and miserable existence,” he noted. “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 of cancer.”
Back in February, the legendary rocker canceled all of his upcoming performances and announced that he was quitting touring due to a spinal injury. At the time, he described the news on Instagram as “one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to share.”
Ozzy had surgery in 2019 following a fall, when he aggravated previous damage to his neck and back from an ATV accident 16 years earlier. After more three more surgeries and a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, the rocker told Rolling Stone UK that he “will” perform again if its possible, but that he’s “taking it one day at a time.”
“But it’s been like saying farewell to the best relationship of my life,” he said. “At the start of my illness, when I stopped touring, I was really pissed off with myself, the doctors and the world. But as time has gone on, I’ve just gone, ‘Well, maybe I’ve just got to accept that fact.’”
“I’m not going to get up there and do a half-hearted Ozzy looking for sympathy. What’s the f—— point in that? I’m not going up there in a f—— wheelchair,” he added, revealing that he saw Phil Collins perform in a wheelchair.
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Still, Ozzy said he’s upset that he hasn’t gotten the chance “to say goodbye or thank you” to his fans on the road.
“They write to me, they know all about my dogs. It’s my extended family really, and they give us the lifestyle we have. For whatever reason, that’s my goal to work to. To do those shows. If it’s at Ozzfest or somewhere, or even a f—— gig at the Roundhouse,” he explained.
“If I can’t continue doing shows on a regular basis, I just want to be well enough to do one show where I can say, ‘Hi guys, thanks so much for my life.’ That’s what I’m working towards, and if I drop down dead at the end of it, I’ll die a happy man.”
While playing a show again is still on Ozzy’s bucket list, one thing that is not is the return of The Osbournes, the MTV reality show about his family which ran for four seasons until 2005.
During a recent episode of The Osbournes Podcast, where he was joined by Sharon, 71, and kids Jack and Kelly, Ozzy said the series is unlikely to come back.
“It won’t happen again. Never in a million years,” he insisted, as Jack agreed: “To be honest with you, I don’t think it should.”