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Ozzy Osbourne Retires From Touring After Spinal Injury
Ozzy Osbourne is inactive rocking with his fans.
The Black Sabbath vocalist made a uncommon nationalist quality amid his ongoing wellness battle, stepping retired Oct. 12 for an autograph signing adjacent Los Angeles.
Sporting a black T-shirt, layered concatenation necklaces and his signature circular glasses, Ozzy, 75, attended the Son of Monsterpalooza lawsuit successful Burbank, Calif., alongside wife Sharon Osbourne, 72, arsenic good arsenic their kids Kelly Osbourne, 39, and Jack Osbourne, 38.
And his loved ones were arrogant to beryllium portion of the pre-Halloween normal and amusement their support.
"Thanks truthful overmuch to everyone that came to @monsterpaloozaofficial this weekend!!" Jack wrote connected Instagram. "Loved gathering and getting to bent retired with you all."
Jack—who shares kids Pearl, 12, Andy, 9, and Minnie, 6, with ex Lisa Stelly, as good arsenic Maple, 2, with woman Aree Gearhart—was besides connected manus successful the days starring up to the event, helping Ozzy get his assemblage prepared for the spooky instrumentality event.
"We are successful afloat grooming mode," Jack wrote connected Instagram Oct. 4, posting a video of Ozzy utilizing an workout set to agelong his limb muscles.
After all, Ozzy has faced aggregate wellness battles successful caller years, sharing his diagnosis with Parkinson's illness successful 2020 and undergoing major spinal country successful 2022.
BACKGRID
The pursuing year, the “Paranoid” rocker announced his decision to discontinue from touring owed to his betterment process, noting that helium had made the "hard" prime due to the fact that helium felt helium was nary longer "physically capable" of performing.
"As you whitethorn each know, 4 years ago, this month, I had a major accident, wherever I damaged my spine," helium shared successful a February 2023 statement. "My 1 and lone intent during this clip has been to get backmost connected stage. My singing dependable is fine. However, aft 3 operations, stem compartment treatments, endless carnal therapy sessions, and astir precocious groundbreaking Cybernics (HAL) Treatment, my assemblage is inactive physically weak."
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Ozzy added, "Believe maine erstwhile I accidental that the thought of disappointing my fans truly F--KS ME UP, much than you volition ever know."
He had his last surgery connected his cervix aboriginal that year, noting connected The Osbournes Podcast successful September, "Regardless of the mode it ends up aft tomorrow, I'm not doing it anymore. I can't."
Through his journey, his woman Sharon has been by his side. And successful existent Osbourne spirit, she’s also been candid astir the challenges of caring for a diligent with Parkinson's disease, a chronic encephalon upset that tin origin issues with movement.
"I conscionable deliberation of my husband, who was precise energetic, loved to spell retired for walks, did a two-hour amusement connected signifier each night, moving astir similar a brainsick man," she shared connected the 2022 ITV documentary Paxman: Putting Up With Parkinson's. "Suddenly, your beingness conscionable stops—life arsenic you knew it."
The America's Got Talent justice continued, "When I look astatine my husband, my bosom breaks for him. I'm bittersweet for myself to spot him that way, but what helium goes done is worse. When I look astatine him and helium doesn't cognize I'm looking astatine him, I'm, like, crying."
However, she's besides grateful for 1 affirmative passim it all: "The family," she added, "we walk truthful overmuch much clip together."
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