Ozzy: Secret of my 35-year marriage? Don’t get caught with your mistress

ROCKER Ozzy Osbourne has spoken about saving his marriage to long-suffering wife Sharon and admitted: “I was a crazy f***er, I’m lucky she didn’t walk out.”

The rocker was caught cheating with his hairdresser last year, but joked that the secret to his 35-year marriage was: “Don’t get caught with your mistress.” Ozzy, 68, and Sharon, 64, renewed their vows in the spring, but in an expletive-heavy interview he spoke candidly about their turbulent marriage. The Black Sabbath legend said: “It’s a rock and roll thing – you rock and you roll. You take the good with the bad. “Now I’m coming on five years clean and sober, and I’ve realised what a f***ing idiot I was.” He added: “I upset my wife and I upset my family and I made a lot of shock and shame. I love my wife, and it made me realise what a f***ing idiot I’ve been.” Asked what kept them together, he told Rolling Stone magazine: “I suppose it’s fair to say we love each other. I love her, and she loves me. “There’s no other woman I really want to spend the rest of my life with. You make a mistake and you learn by it. She’s made a few mistakes, and so have I.” Ozzy, who is from Birmingham, went on: “You know when you hear these people go, ‘Oh, we’ve been married 35 years and we’ve never had a row’? “I go, ‘You must have been living in a different f***ing country’.” Ozzy’s stylist, Michelle Pugh, claimed she had a four-year fling with the rocker, who she dubbed “the love of my life”. She told People magazine last year: “He made me feel like the most beautiful and worshipped woman in the world.” Ozzy, who has three children with Sharon and two from his first marriage, has many reasons to stay off the drink and drugs. He said: “I was saying to Sharon the other day, ‘Every one of my bad drinking partners are all dead.’ No one’s come back and said, ‘Hi, Oz, it’s cooler on this side. Come and join us.’ “I want to be around for everyone. But more than that, I didn’t love the way I felt after I got stoned or drunk or both.” He now gets his kicks watching Game of Thrones and painting. But he has no plans to retire. He said: “People around my age go, ‘I’m 65 now. I’m retired.’ Then they f***ing die. I ain’t retiring. “People still want to see me, so what’s there to retire from?”