OZZY’S ON HIS LAST LEGS!
Crippled wildman’s career is shot to hell
ROCK wildman Ozzy Osbourne can barely walk and is such a medical mess, insiders worry his fabulous stage career may be over. Notorious for his crazed antics, including biting the head off a bat during a show, the former Black Sabbath frontman underwent crucial neck and back surgery in June that will “determine the rest of his life,” a source says.
Recent shocking photos reveal 74-yearold Ozzy needs a cane to hobble around at a snail’s pace and even then appears unsteady — and terrified — on his feet.
Now, a music industry insider says, “Ozzy is literally on his last legs. He’s had trouble getting around for a while now and he admits that he can hardly walk.”
Sources fear he may no longer have wife Sharon, 70, to lean on in the future. The former The Talk chatterbox was rushed to the hospital for an “unspecified medical emergency” on Dec. 16. She’s since returned home and is doing well, but insiders worry Sharon may not be able to continue playing nurse for her rocker hubby.
Ozzy, who released his rightly titled album Patient Number 9 in September, has a medical history dating back to 2003, when a near-fatal tumble from his quad bike severely injured his neck. A 2019 fall prevented him from returning to the stage — and then he was clobbered with a Parkinson’s diagnosis and a life-threatening staph infection.
After 15 metal screws were inserted in his back, he suffered nerve pain in his neck, back, shoulders and arms that left him terrified he might be paralyzed, the sources add.
Now, Ozzy’s “hobbling on a cane and can barely shuffle. It takes him forever to get from one place to the next!” says the insider.
“The most depressing thing for Ozzy is he desperately wants to be back on stage but that may never happen now!”
Ozzy admits he’s nearly crippled and unable to perform, saying: “It is so f**king tough because, I mean, I want to be out there. I want to be doing it, but I just can’t f**king walk much now.
“I can’t begin to tell you how f**king frustrating life has become.”