Ozzy Osbourne may be happy that the holiday season is coming to a close
The “Crazy Train” singer shared that he once drank “28 gallons of booze” to get through Christmas.
“I f—ing hate Christmas. It gets right up my arsehole,” Osbourne, 76, said, as per The Sun. “When I used to do booze and get f—d up, I bought a barrel with 28 gallons of booze for me. I drunk it before it was Christmas f—ing Eve.”
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The Black Sabbath rocker has been open about his past drug and alcohol use. On his podcast The Osbournes Podcast that he shares with wife Sharon, he admitted during a September episode that he wasn’t “completely sober” but refuses to microdose anything else.
“I use a bit of marijuana from time to time,” Ozzy said, adding that Sharon, 72, makes sure he doesn’t use anything more intense than marijuana. “My wife kicks my butt all the time,” he added. “She would f—ing make my life so difficult.”
“The message is, if you are out there and you are using dope and you want to get off, there is plenty of help,” Ozzy said, adding that Alcoholics Anonymous got him “sorted out to a certain degree.”
Sharon claimed during a 2024 episode of Celebrity Big Brother that Ozzy was “stoned on every episode” of their reality series The Osbournes that ran from 2002 to 2005.
“He was never sober,” she continued. “He’s never seen it, doesn’t want to see it, and he never watched one episode.”
Ozzy’s substance abuse issues began in the 1970s and entered rehab for the first time in 1984.
“I’ve always been self-medicating because I’ve never liked the way I felt,” he told Variety in 2021. “I’ve had great success in my life, but I’ve never felt great about myself. And so, from a very early age, I used to sniff fumes, all kinds of things, anything to get me out of my head.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he added: “I should have been dead 1,000 times.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.
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