OZZY OSBOURNE REVEALS MOMENT THAT BROKE HIS HEART DURING FINAL DAYS

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Even in his final days, Ozzy Osbourne longed to perform. That yearning was strong when the iconic rock legend wanted to perform at his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony induction, and that he could not proved painfully heartbreaking.

Osbourne, who died in July at the age of 76, made the revelation in the new Paramount+ documentary No Escape From Now, which chronicled the former Black Sabbath frontman's health battles, including Parkinson's disease.

Despite the health battles, Osbourne felt right at home when he was onstage. But he was anywhere but the stage in October 2024, when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Osbourne wanted so badly to perform, but chronic pain kept him at home. In his place, Billy Idol, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith, and Tool's Maynard James Keenan performed a medley of Osbourne's greatest hits.

But that wasn't enough for Osbourne.

"I wasn’t thinking, 'I'm glad they're doing my f---ing gig for me.' I was going, 'What the f--k is wrong with me?" Ozzy said of the ceremony, per Variety. "And that feeling of wanting to get up there and have a go myself, that broke my heart, you know? I nearly said, 'Let me have a go.' But I know I would be on the floor in two f---ing seconds."

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Osbourne's yearning was so strong that he went to incredible lengths to see if he could pull it off, like going online and looking for "f---ing bionic legs" that would help carry him onstage and perform.

"I was thinking that would be great — the real Iron Man," he quipped.

He never got over this ...

Per Variety, the documentary quickly broaches Osbourne's time with Black Sabbath before they fired him in 1979 due to his substance abuse issues.

Though he rejoined the iconic rock band in 2005 and again in 2012, Osbourne still apparently never got over being fired, according to his daughter, Kelly.

"My dad will never get over being fired from Black Sabbath," she says in the documentary. "He'll never get over that, ever ever ever. It hurt him more than anything people can put into words. It destroyed him. Those were his brothers, those were his extended family, and all he knew."

Osbourne never addressed the issue directly on camera, but he told a producer, "To be honest with you, we were all f---ed up … At the end of the day, everybody was stoned, but they all went, 'Oh Ozzy's stoned.' Because when you do a lot of acid like I used to, you gotta be f---ing off your nut. That's what it does, it sends you f---ing crazy."

2025-10-07T19:37:32Z