Music legend Ozzy Osbourne has secretly been battling Parkinson’s disease for nearly 20 years.
He was first made aware of it in 2003 but decided to keep it top secret.
Ozzy, 71, confessed the tremors that some suspected were related to over-indulging in booze and drugs in his younger years.
The rocker said: “Everyone thinks that when I had the fall I discovered I had Parkinson’s. But I have known since 2003.
“I have been working with it and I have had it all my life. It has not crippled me from doing gigs.”
But the The Black Sabbath frontman dreads the thought of looking ill on stage.
He could not bear to copy Phil Collins who now sings in a chair due to back and leg problems.
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne have been a Hollywood power couple for years (Image: PA)
He said: “I cannot sit down on a f***ing stool. I will go on in a chair but I won’t sit on it.”
He added: “Parkinson’s it is not a death sentence.
“I cannot complain because I have cheated death for 48 years.
“Everyone I used to drink and get loaded with is dead – it is true.”
Ozzy believes he is lucky as he has ‘escaped death for 48 years’ (Image: Redferns via Getty Images)
He is even planning more music despite just releasing his new album Ordinary Man.
Ozzy said: “I’m not stopping, I’m coming back. And I’m going to kick your f***ing a*s.”
“As soon as you go on that stage you become that performer.
“It is like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It is called fear.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
