Ozzy Osbourne battled a ton of health issues before his July death — to the point that he once considered putting an end to his suffering himself.
“The thought of not doing any gigs anymore — I went really into depression,” the late rock star explained in the new Paramount+ documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now. “I’m on antidepressants now, actually. Because I was getting ready to off myself at some point.”
Speaking about the period after a 2021 operation to correct a prior surgery, Osbourne quipped that his suicidal ideation was kept in check by his fear that he wouldn’t actually die.
“I’ll go there in my head and I go, ‘What are you f***ing talking about?’ Because knowing me, I’d half-do it and I’d be half-dead,” the former Black Sabbath frontman told the camera. “I mean, I wouldn’t di