Originally appeared on E! Online
Ozzy Osbourne is no ordinary man when it comes to the holidays.
The 76-year-old — who has been open about his struggle with alcohol and drug addiction throughout his life — recently revealed a very specific way he once got through the Christmas season, a time of year he said “gets right up my a--hole.”
“When I used to do booze and get f--ked up,” he told The Sun in an interview published Dec. 31, “I bought a barrel with 28 gallons of booze for me. I drunk it before it was Christmas f--king Eve.”
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The Black Sabbath frontman — who shares kids Aimee, 41, Kelly, 40, and Jack, 39, with wife Sharon Osbourne, 72 — added, “I f--king hate Christmas.”
While his holiday drinking habits are a thing of the past, Ozzy Osbourne recently admitted to partaking in other substances, noting in September that he’s “not completely sober.”
"I use a bit of marijuana from time to time," he said on an episode of his "The Madhouse Chronicles" podcast. "I'm lucky my wife kicked my butt, obviously. She would f--king make life so difficult. Like with marijuana, she'll f--kin' find it and get rid of it."
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But weed isn’t the only drug Ozzy was willing to discuss, saying a recent visit to the doctor’s office provided him with a new vice.
"I went to a doctor recently and started to have this ketamine,” he continued. “He put a tiny bit in me, but that was enough to spark me. That thing came back and weighted my brain."
And just as the "Osbournes" star — who revealed in 2020 he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease — is not afraid to openly discuss his ongoing journey with sobriety, he has been just as candid on what contributed to his struggle with addiction.
"I’ve always been self-medicating because I’ve never liked the way I felt," he told Variety in 2021. "I’ve had great success in my life, but I’ve never felt great about myself. And so, from a very early age, I used to sniff fumes, all kinds of things, anything to get me out of my head."
Later, he added, "I should have been dead 1,000 times."
