Ozzy Osbourne Reveals He Has Parkinson’s, Says 2019 Was ‘Worst, Longest, Most Painful, Miserable Year’ Of His Life

Ozzy Osbourne has come close to death so many times, but for the Prince of Darkness, none of them compared with the pain that he endured in 2019. Ozzy revealed that he has Parkinson’s disease and detailed all of the health struggles he has endured over the past year.

Ozzy gave an interview to Good Morning America along with his wife and manager Sharon Osbourne, where they chronicled the rocker’s difficult year that started with being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in February of 2019. Ozzy was diagnosed with a form of Parkinson’s called “PRKN 2,” a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects nerves in the body, and there is no cure.

“There’s so many different types of Parkinson’s — it’s not a death sentence by any stretch of the imagination, but it does affect certain nerves in your body,” Sharon Osbourne said. “And it’s, it’s like you have a good day, a good day, and then a really bad day.”

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“It’s been terribly challenging for us all. I did my last show New Year’s Eve at The Forum,” Osbourne said, referencing the concert he performed on December 31, 2018, in Los Angeles. “Then I had a bad fall. I had to have surgery on my neck, which screwed all my nerves.”

“When I had the fall it was pitch black, I went to the bathroom and I fell,” Ozzy remembered. “I just fell and landed like a slam on the floor, and I remember lying there thinking, ‘Well, you’ve done it now,’ really calm. Sharon [called] an ambulance. After that it was all downhill.”

The fall also reaggravated a prior quad bike accident that had surgeons implant metal rods and 15 screws in Ozzy’s spine. Osbourne was nearly killed when his ATV flipped over and crashed onto him in December of 2003.

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“It’s been terribly challenging for us,” the Black Sabbath frontman told Robin Roberts of Good Morning America. “[It] was the worst, longest, most painful, miserable year of my life.”

“A year ago next month, I was in a shocking state. I’m on a host of medication, mainly from surgery,” Ozzy explained. “I’ve got numbness down this arm from surgery, my legs feel like they’re going cold, I don’t know if that’s from the Parkinson’s.”

“His accident has been absolutely devastating to me, to everybody,” Sharon said on The Talk. “And it’s definitely been the most toughest ride I’ve had so far and I hope the only tough ride. I can’t take any more.”

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Ozzy kids, Jack and Kelly Osbourne, also revealed what it’s like caring for their father during the most difficult time of his life. “The hardest thing is watching someone you love suffer. It’s been a role reversal for us,” Kelly said. “He can’t feel his arm, and he can’t get off the couch.”

“Coming from my working-class background, I hate to let people down, I hate to not do my job,” Ozzy told Roberts. “And so when I see my wife go to work and my kids go to work. That gets me down. Because I can’t contribute to my family.”

Ozzy says that he is doing a lot better now than last February, Kelly said they weren’t sure if her father was going to walk again a year ago. Ozzy says he misses his fans “so much” and “wants to get back out there.”

The 71-year-old rocker was supposed to go on a world tour in 2019, but the pain from fall and the Parkinson’s disease has prevented him from performing. Last year, Ozzy was also hospitalized because of complications from the flu and needed surgery on his hand to treat an infection.

“Since October everything I touch has turned to sh*t,” Ozzy said in January. “First the staph infection in my thumb and now coming down with the flu and bronchitis.”

The couple is planning on traveling to Switzerland in April to meet with a specialist who Sharon says, “deals with getting your immune system at its peak.”

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