In a new documentary about the life of the legendary Black Sabbath singer, who died on July 22nd at the age of 76, Ozzy’s wife Sharon Osbourne, with the title “The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne, tried to kill her in 1989 during a drug rush. The absurd thing about history: According to Ozzy Osbourne itself, it is said to have been the most peaceful moment in his life.
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Sharon Osbourne says about her disturbing near -death experience in the documentary: “I brought the children to bed, bathed them – we had a nanny in the house at the time – and then I sat down to read. He came into the room. I had no idea who was sitting on the sofa towards me, but it wasn’t my husband. He had reached a stage in which he had this expression in his eyes (…), where I just couldn’t get through to him. And he only said, ‘We came to the decision that you have to die.’ ” According to the music manager, her husband was not dissolved, but calm – until he suddenly fell on her and started choking her. “”He brought me to the floor and I was looking for things on the table. I felt the panic button and just pressed it and the next one I remember is that the bulls were there. ”
Ozzy Osbourne landed in prison for accusation of attempted murder
The incident occurred in the common house of the Osbournes in Buckinghamshire, in which the couple lived with their three children. Sharon Osbourne said in the documentary: “I could only think of the children. I thought: ‘I will never leave my children.’ So it was probably the greatest fear that I ever had. ” The former “Black Sabbath” front man tells the story in the new film from a slightly different perspective: “I felt more calm than ever in my life. I was just peaceful. It is not exactly one of my greatest achievements,” said the 71-year-old. “I only remember that I woke up in the Amerham prison and asked the police officer: ‘Why am I here?’ And he said, ‘You want me to read your indictment?’ So he read: ‘John Michael Osbourne, they were arrested for attempted murder. “
Despite all reason, Sharon Osbourne did not divorce from her husband after the murder attack – for the sake of the children, as she reveals in the documentary. “Thank God he had to take treatment in treatment for six months,” she said. “I had time to really think about what to do. I said to him: ‘I don’t want the money, but if you do it again, I’ll either kill you or you will kill me. Do you want that for the children?’
The past few years have been particularly turbulent for the musician: he had to struggle with injuries after a fall at home, with pneumonia and spoke publicly about his Parkinson’s disease for the first time. In 2022, Ozzy Osbourne’s last solo album patient Number 9. In 2020, the planned North America tour had to be canceled due to health problems. In the 2020 documentary “The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne”, the legendary metal musician also spoke about his depression, which would be reinforced by the isolation during the Corona Lockdown.
On July 22, 2025, he died at the age of 76. Only shortly after the farewell concert by Black Sabbath. The cause of death is still unclear.