Ozzy Osbourne once considered ending his own life due to the pain he suffered from his botched neck surgery.
“The thought of not doing any gigs anymore — I went really into depression,” the late Prince of Darkness says in the upcoming Paramount + documentary “Ozzy: No Escape From Now.” Per Us Weekly, he adds, “I’m on antidepressants now, actually. Because I was getting ready to off myself at some point.”
The late rocker — who passed away on July 22 at the age of 76 — underwent surgeries on his neck and spine after a 2019 fall, which displaced metal rods put in his body following a catastrophic 2003 ATV accident, and worsened his previous injuries.
Though the neck surgery made him consider suicide, he jokes that a fear of not actually completing the act kept him from attempting it.
“I’ll go there in my head and I go, ‘What are you f–king talking about?’ Because knowing me, I’d half-do it and I’d be half-dead,” he says. “I mean, I wouldn’t die, you know? That’s my luck.”
Elsewhere in the documentary, wife Sharon, 72, says the neck surgery had triggered the rocker’s declining health — complicated further by his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, which he revealed in 2020. Per The New York Post, Sharon says following the botched surgery, a separate doctor said the procedure had been too “aggressive.”
Surgical screws and metal plates were used, “which didn’t need doing,” according to Sharon, and ultimately “caused even more damage,” she says. She adds that a subsequent physician attempted to “patch him up,” but the “main damage was done.”
His son Jack Osbourne also weighs in with sobering thoughts. “The Parkinson’s is progressing, but the main problem is the nerve damage from the bad neck surgery,” he says. “That f–king doctor stripped him of his abilities to move.”
Says the reality TV star, 39, “It makes me so angry, because I felt like all this could have been avoided.”
The “Osbournes” patriarch died in July, just weeks after the Black Sabbath frontman headlined a farewell concert for his iconic band.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” read a statement obtained by Page Six at the time.
“He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time. Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis.”
Prior to Ozzy’s death, daughter Kelly Osbourne, 40, hit back at persistent rumors that her parents had a suicide pact.
“Stop making articles or posts about how you think my parents are having a suicide pact,” she told her followers in July. “That was bulls–t my mom said to get attention one time. And my dad’s not dying. Stop.”
Sharon first made the claim back in 2007. “We believe 100% in euthanasia,” she said in an interview at the time. “[We] have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains.”
She added in part, “If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer’s [disease], that’s it — we’d be off.”
“Ozzy: No Escape From Now” is set for release on Paramount + on Oct. 7.
