And of course, just as important in the family is Sharon and Ozzy’s other daughter Aimee, although she has always shunned the spotlight and didn’t take part in MTV’s fly-on-the-wall documentary series about the family.
However, when Ozzy ‘fell off the wagon’ around 18 months ago and once more indulged his alcohol and drug habits, the family – and Sharon in particular – were “devastated” and feared that he would kill himself. And it was a blow made all the more severe given that Ozzy had been sober for so many years…
But thankfully, as Ozzy has told The Sun this week, he’s now very firmly back on the sobriety wagon, and has been for over a year. And that, Ozzy says, is all thanks to Sharon.She left him briefly when news of the resurfacing of his addictions surfaced, but after he made impassioned pleas to her, and promised to get help, she moved back into the couple’s home.
While explaining how tough things have been for him though, Ozzy revealed that his struggle to remain sober is as nothing when compared to how he felt while Sharon battled cancer and on hearing that his son Jack has multiple sclerosis.
He said, “Sharon is the strongest woman I know. When I saw the scans of the colon, I thought, ‘No way’. The cancer was so aggressive.
“She had three chemotherapies a month and after nine months the side-effects got worse and worse. She was having seizures — she was like The Exorcist, bouncing around the bed. I thought I was going to lose her.
“I thought it was all going to be too much for her.”But happily, Sharon did fully recover, however, talk then turned to Jack and Ozzy and Sharon’s heartache over his illness.
Ozzy said, “Being a parent myself, I don’t know how any parent can get over their child dying.
“Thank God it’s never happened to one of my kids [but] when my son Jack was diagnosed with MS I was like, ‘What do we do?’”However, regardless of what happens now, Ozzy is determined to be there for his family.
He said, “Alcoholism is an illness… I worry about losing everything, so I just don’t want to drink any more
“Now I’ve got a real chance. Today I’ve been 19 months sober and I don’t want to mess things up.”
Here’s hoping he can keep up that great work.
Here’s a reminder of the family in their MTV show…
