Ozzy Osbourne told by doctors he would not survive final concert
Ozzy Osbourne was warned he would not make it through his farewell concert.
Ozzy Osbourne was told by doctors he wouldn’t survive the strain of his final show.
The Black Sabbath frontman managed to make it through the Back to the Beginning concert in his home city of Birmingham on July 5, but died just days later on July 22, aged 76.
And in her first interview since the devastating loss, his wife, Sharon Osbourne, has revealed the heavy metal icon - who battled Parkinson's disease and spinal issues - was gravely ill and told his body could not cope with the concert. Ozzy defied the odds, despite being in excruciating pain and performing from a throne.
Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sharon was asked if Ozzy knew that he was at the end of his life, to which she replied: “Very much so, because he’d been so ill this year, terribly, terribly ill.
“And when we came to England and we were meeting with new doctors here, a new medical team for him, the main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.’
“But we just sat there, and he said, I’m doing it. I want to do it, and I’m doing it.
“He knew his body was failing him. He was in so much pain, so much pain.
“And I mean, you know, he had pneumonia three times this year. He’d had sepsis.
“That’s what really, really destroyed him.
“He was on these shots of antibiotics. It used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in, and he had that twice a day, and it kills everything in you, the Good, the Bad, everything, so much antibiotics, and he just couldn’t get over that. He just couldn’t.”
Despite knowing he didn't have long left, the Paranoid hitmaker was "so happy" during his final days back in his beloved Buckinghamshire home after his curtain call.
She said of his determination: “He just wanted it so bad to say thank you to everyone. And I think he honestly did know that, he, he was done.
“That was his time. He was so happy afterwards.
“He kept looking at the papers, and he goes to me, ‘I never knew so many people liked me,’ but that was the way he was.
“I mean, he knew he was famous, but not the amount that people loved him. It’s a whole different thing, and he was just so happy, so so happy.
“And for two weeks he was, you know, really, like every day was sunshine for him.
“Really, really happy, yeah, so happy, happier than we’d seen him in seven years.”
The full interview is available now on Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube.
