Ozzy Osbourne has revealed he doesn’t want to live a ‘long, miserable existence’ and has ‘at best 10 years left’ of his life.
Despite this, the 74-year-old rocker has insisted that there’s plenty of life in him yet and it ‘p***es him off’ when he sees reports that he’s ‘fighting his last battle.’
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Speaking candidly about his health in a chat with Rolling Stone UK, Ozzy – who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2003 – went on to reveal that doctors found a tumour in his spine during a fourth operation on his back following a 2019 fall.
He explained: ‘I don’t fear dying, but I don’t want to have 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 of cancer.
‘But look, I said to Sharon that I’d smoked a joint recently and she said, “What are you doing that for? It’ll f***ing kill you!” I said, “How long do you want me to f***ing live for?!” At best, I’ve got 10 years left and when you’re older, time picks up speed. Me and Sharon had our 41st wedding anniversary recently, and that’s just unbelievable to me!’
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Detailing the series of operations he’s had recently following his fall in 2019, he confessed: ‘It’s really knocked me about. The second surgery went drastically wrong and virtually left me crippled.
‘I thought I’d be up and running after the second and third, but with the last one they put a f***ing rod in my spine. They found a tumour in one of the vertebrae, so they had to dig all that out too. It’s pretty rough, man, and my balance is all f****d up.’
Last year he underwent ‘life-altering’ surgery to remove and realign a series of pins in his neck and back from a 2003 quad biking accident.
In September, Ozzy revealed on his family’s podcast The Osbournes Podcast that he had another surgery in the pipeline.
He said: ‘My lower back is, I’m going for an epidural soon because what’s happening, what they’ve discovered is the neck has been fixed, below the neck there’s two vertebrae where the bike hit me and disintegrated, there’s nothing left of ’em.’
His son Jack Osbourne asked: ‘Are they fusing discs?’
Ozzy explained that he ‘didn’t know’ what the medical professionals were going to be doing but said: ‘All I know is right now, I’m in a lot of pain, I’m in a lot of discomfort.’
He recently said he is ‘battling through’ his health issues and recently had a filter removed from his artery.
