Ozzy’s Final Bow ROCKED the World! 😢 The Prince of Darkness faced Parkinson’s and epic battles, only to leave us after a legendary last show. What took down the heavy metal icon? 🤔 Dive into his untold story of grit and glory! 👉

Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary singer-songwriter and media personality, has succumbed to death’s calling. The former lead singer of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath was reported to have passed away on the morning of 22 July 2025, at 76. But his death came after a long history of severe medical conditions following the GOAT around, including Parkinson’s disease.

Notably enough, only a few weeks ago, he had reunited with his bandmates and performed a huge farewell Back to the Beginning concert on July 5, having announced that this would be his last live performance. Nonetheless, as his demise marks a tragic loss for the industry, here’s a deeper dive into the medical conditions he was battling in the years prior to his death.

In 2020, Ozzy Osbourne Was Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease

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While the past few decades had been nothing short of hell for him after he fully embraced the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle in his early years, Ozzy Osbourne publicly announced in 2020 that he had been diagnosed and was living with Parkinson’s disease for around a year (per NBC News).

According to the Cleveland Clinic, Parkinson’s is an “age-related degenerative brain condition” that leads to “slowed movements, tremors, balance problems, and more” in the individual.

Fast forward two years, and the rockstar confessed while talking to PEOPLE that he had been using a cane to maintain his balance and was struggling with his speech due to his condition. At the time, expressing distaste and remorse at his condition, he said, “I’ve never been this laid up.”

Then in 2022, he let out in an episode of Ozzy Speaks about his use of stem cell therapy, saying, “I’ve just come back from the doctor after having some stem cells put in me…. The thing is, you have it, and you go, ‘I don’t feel that great,’ but I don’t know what it would be like if I didn’t have it.”

A year later, in 2023, Osbourne announced on The Osbournes Podcast that he was undergoing his final-ever surgery on his neck because he “can’t do it anymore, regardless of the way it ends up.” (Per Metro.co.uk.)

Adding to this, on Ozzy Speaks, he revealed that prior to his last performance, his blood pressure was being taken 15 times a day after blood clot problems in his legs. He said:

I have got this trainer guy who helps people get back to normal. It’s hard going, but he’s convinced that he can pull it off for me. I’m giving it everything I’ve got. It’s endurance. The first thing that goes when you’re laid up is your stamina. I am having my blood pressure taken 15 times a day.. I’ve got this f***ing device on my finger. It’s a monitor to say how my heart rate is.

Osbourne also opened up about his mental health struggles, revealing that his “head is crazy” and that he has ADHD “badly.”

“I will have done the show and died a death before I even started my exercises. So I try and put it on the back burner. I’m not going up there saying, ‘It’s going to be great. I’m really confident.’ In my head, I will have died on my ass. I remember being in f***ing Vegas one time, being in the dressing room, going, ‘I’m going to play. I’m going to die,’” he said.

Nonetheless, when it came to his last performance, Ozzy Osbourne didn’t back down, and ended up playing a short set while seated on a black throne at Villa Park in Birmingham alongside his bandmates on July 5, 2025, in the vicinity of a crowd of around 40,000 spectators and a peak livestream audience of 5.8 million (via The Guardian).

In 2019, Ozzy Osbourne Suffered Multiple Injuries Due to a Drastic Fall

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A year before he came publicly clean about his Parkinson’s diagnosis, Ozzy Osbourne reportedly underwent a drastic fall. Apparently, after getting up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night on a cold day in January 2019, he fell on his face.

This turned out to be severe for him because it moved some of the metal rods that the doctors had left in his body after his 2003 accident, which had led to a surgery on his back and spine (more on this later).

Confiding to Rolling Stone, Osbourne shared, “When they do surgery on your neck, they cut through all the nerves, and it f—– everything up. So I’m wobbling all over the place. And since they cut through the nerves, my right arm feels permanently cold.”

But the aftermath of that fall was even more bitter than that, as the star revealed in a separate interview with Rolling Stone UK that he underwent four rounds of spinal surgery in total. He also revealed having blood clots in his legs. Ozzy Osbourne said:

It’s really knocked me about. The second surgery went drastically wrong and virtually left me crippled. I thought I’d be up and running after the second and third, but with the last one, they put a fucking rod in my spine. They found a tumor in one of the vertebrae, so they had to dig all that out too. It’s pretty rough, man, and my balance is all f—ed up.

Then there was all the drug and alcohol addiction he struggled with throughout his career.

Ozzy Osbourne Struggled Severely With Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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For those unversed, at numerous points throughout his career, Ozzy Osbourne struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. According to Variety, he first entered rehab in 1984, though his journey to get back on track had been a pretty long one.

Talking about his never-ending road of addiction battles he fought, he shared with the publication in 2021: “I’ve always been self-medicating because I’ve never liked the way I felt. 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.”

Back in 2013, though, he confessed that he had relapsed in his journey to sobriety. Taking to his Facebook handle, Osbourne came clean about the same, writing,

For the last year and a half, I have been drinking and taking drugs. I was in a very dark place and was an asshole to the people I love most, my family. However, I am happy to say that I am now 44 days sober. Just to set the record straight, Sharon and I are not divorcing. I’m just trying to be a better person. I would like to apologize to Sharon, my family, my friends, and my bandmates for my insane behavior during this period………and my fans. God Bless, Ozzy.

However, this changed drastically over the years. In May 2025, just around two months before his final performance, Ozzy Osbourne revealed to The Guardian that he was sober.

Coming clean, he confessed, “I don’t smoke dope or do any of the rock star lifestyle anymore. I’m kind of like a homebody. I never go out. I never hang out in bars — I don’t drink. So what the f— is out there for me?”

Back in 2003, Ozzy Osbourne’s Quad-Bike Accident Left Him in a Coma

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While all these other medical conditions kept popping up one after the other, Ozzy Osbourne’s real medical struggles pretty much started more than twenty years ago.

This goes back to 2003, when he got into a severe accident, falling off an all-terrain quad bike at his English estate. The result of the same was his breaking his collarbone, eight ribs, and a neck vertebra (per The Guardian).

He revealed to Britain’s Sunday Mirror later how he “died” twice and was in a coma for around eight days after the accident, claiming that his bodyguard “had to bring me back to life twice.” (Via Today.)

Additional details from Rolling Stone UK revealed that doctors had to insert metal rods into Osbourne’s body as a result of the accident.

Ozzy Osbourne Focused On His Health to Prepare For His Last Performance

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Despite all the health struggles he was facing, Ozzy Osbourne notably made sure that he was fit enough for his last performance. Though he predicted his own death back in 2020, claiming he ‘doesn’t think he’ll be around much longer’ while speaking to Kerrang! (via Metro.co.uk), The Prince of Darkness trained for weeks just to get to his final show.

As he revealed in his May 2025 interview with The Guardian,

I do weights, bike riding, I’ve got a guy living at my house who’s working with me. It’s tough — I’ve been laid up for such a long time. I’ve been lying on my back doing nothing, and the first thing to go is your strength. It’s like starting all over again.

Adding to this, Osbourne also shared, “I have problems walking. I also get blood pressure issues from blood clots in my legs. I’m used to doing two hours on stage, jumping and running around. I don’t think I’ll be doing much jumping or running around this time. I may be sitting down.”

However, at the same time, he also emphasized what the actual point was: “I’ll be there, and I’ll do the best I can. So all I can do is turn up.” And that’s a promise he didn’t hesitate to keep.

For what it’s worth, with the unparalleled legacy he established for himself with his music and innumerable accolades and recognition he scored to date, Ozzy Osbourne will, no doubt, go down and be remembered as one of the finest additions to the music industry – one who will truly be sorely missed.

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