Sharon Osbourne has opened up on what life is really like for husband Ozzy following his devastating Parkinson’s diagnosis.
The Black Sabbath frontman publicly revealed he had the degenerative disease which affects the brain in 2019 – but behind closed doors he has been battling symptoms for almost 20 years.
Speaking about how 73-year-old Ozzy’s illness has affected him and their family, Sharon shared she cries often.
In a frank chat with Jeremy Paxman – who has also been living with Parkinson’s for the last 18 months – the former X Factor judge revealed: “Suddenly your life just stops – life as you knew it.”
Appearing on ITV documentary Paxman: Putting Up With Parkinson’s, 69-year-old Sharon explained: “When I look at my husband my heart breaks for him.
“I’m sad for myself to see him that way, but what he goes through is worse. When I look at him and he doesn’t know, I’m like crying.”
Recalling what life used to be like, she added: “I just think of my husband, and like you [Jeremy], who was very energetic, loved to go out for walks, did a two-hour show on stage every night, running around like a crazy man.”
But Sharon said there is one good thing to have come from Ozzy having Parkinson’s – the amount of time they now spend together.
“We spend much more time together as a family and I love my husband more than I did three years ago,” she shared.
Sharon and Ozzy recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary and share three children – Aimee, 39, Kelly, 37, and 36-year-old Jack.
They are also grandparents to three children from son Jack, who are all girls – and daughter Kelly is about to give birth to her first child.
Kelly recently confirmed she was having a baby boy with Slipknot’s Sid Wilson after dad Ozzy “told everyone” the gender.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, she said: “I mean, he’s told everyone! The gender of the baby before I ever got the chance to, and I’m just like ‘Awww Dad, come on.’
“But I will say, every single days he does this little song and this little dance about how excited he is. He is so excited that it’s a boy. It’s the first – out of me and my brother – it’s the first boy, so he’s like planning all these things.”
Speaking about his illness when he first went public with his diagnosis, Ozzy said it was “not a death sentence by any stretch of this imagination”.
But he did say it leaves him in periods of constant pain caused by nerve damage in his neck area.
Describing it as the “most miserable time of his life”, he said he wanted to speak out after false reports he was on his death bed.
Wanting to be honest with his fans, he said: “I feel better now that I have owned up to the fact that I have a case of Parkinson's,” adding: "I ain't going anywhere yet."
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