Ozzy Osbourne, 74, looks frail as he takes a walk without his cane alongside his carer and stops to smell the flowers in leafy Los Angeles… amid his Parkinson’s battle
Ozzy Osbourne has been spotted looking frail as he took a walk without a cane through leafy Los Angeles amid his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
The 74-year-old walked alongside his carer who picked up flowers during their daytime stroll around the neighbourhood, and she was making sure the rocker was well.
Metalhead Ozzy took a sniff of the white and pink flowers clustered together by his carer and appeared to be in good spirits as he padded his way down the sidewalk.
Normally having his cane in tow to help him, Ozzy looked weaker as he walked with a tilt and looked unbalanced.
Ozzy and his wife Sharon, 70, have lived in the Beverly Hills area for the past 25 years, though they said were planning on moving back to the UK in early 2023.
Stepping out: Ozzy Osbourne has been spotted looking frail as he took a walk without a cane through leafy Los Angeles amid his battle with Parkinson’s disease
On a walk: The 74-year-old walked alongside his carer who picked up flowers during their daytime stroll around the neighbourhood, and she was making sure the rocker was well
Stop and smell the roses: Metalhead Ozzy took a sniff of the white and pink flowers clustered together by his carer and appeared to be in good spirits as he padded his way down the sidewalk
He revealed in a wide-ranging interview with The Observer that they will be moving back to their estate in Buckinghamshire, and they’ve listed their Los Angeles home in the posh Hancock Park neighborhood for $18 million.
Sharon squashed rumors that they were moving back to the UK because of Ozzy’s health, referring to his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
‘I knew people would think that. It’s not. It’s just time. America has changed so drastically. It isn’t the United States of America at all. Nothing’s united about it. It’s a very weird place to live right now,’ she said.
On his walk, Ozzy wore a plain black t-shirt which revealed his tattooed arms beneath, and he paired it with a pair of comfortable black lounge shorts.
He slipped into a pair of black running trainers which provided him with ease as he walked in the LA sunshine.
His hair was not it’s usual dark done but instead he had grey and white peeping through at the roots.
Despite his health woes he carried on with his walk in good spirits and got in some exercise alongside his carer.
In January 2020 Ozzy revealed that he has Parkinson’s in an emotional interview with his wife Sharon.
The then-71-year-old sat down with Good Morning America to reveal he could no longer hide his health struggles and that he is on a ‘whole host’ of medications to treat his nerve pain.
It began, he said, when he suffered a fall in 2019 and had to undergo surgery for it.
After that, he started experiencing nerve pain and doctors have had a hard time pinpointing whether the fall, the surgery, or his condition are to blame for his condition.
Health woes: Normally having his cane in tow to help him, Ozzy looked weaker as he walked with a tilt and looked unbalanced
Exercise: He revealed in a wide-ranging interview with The Observer that they will be moving back to their estate in Buckinghamshire, and they’ve listed their Los Angeles home in the posh Hancock Park neighborhood for $18 million
Leafy: Sharon squashed rumors that they were moving back to the UK because of Ozzy’s health, referring to his battle with Parkinson’s disease. ‘I knew people would think that. It’s not. It’s just time,’ she said
Stroll: On his walk, Ozzy wore a plain black t-shirt which revealed his tattooed arms beneath, and he paired it with a pair of comfortable black lounge shorts
Battle: He slipped into a pair of black running trainers which provided him with ease as he walked in the LA sunshine
Comfortable: His hair was not it’s usual dark done but instead he had grey and white peeping through at the roots
Insisting he was ‘far from’ his deathbed – as had been misreported – he said he wanted to ‘own up’ to his condition for the sake of his fans.
‘It has been terribly challenging for us,’ he said of the last year. ‘I had to have surgery on my neck which screwed all my nerves. I found out that I have a mild form of….’ he said before looking to his wife to finish his sentence.
Sharon added: ‘It’s Parkin 2 which is a form of Parkinson’s. There are so many different types of Parkinson’s.
It comes after Ozzy declared he is ‘not f****** dying’ and has floated the possibility that he will tour again if doctors approve.
The Black Sabbath frontman was forced to axe all of his shows for 2023 over his health.
He confessed on the latest episode of Sirius XM’s Ozzy Speaks that he does not know when he will be able to return to the road.
‘Well, I’ve been working my guts out to try and get back on my feet,’ the legendary musician assured his fans.
‘I’ve come to the point where Sharon [Osbourne – who is still his manager] says to me: “You know what? The truth of the matter is you can’t keep booking tours and failing, cancelling,”‘ he explained.
‘So, if I can ever get back to where I can tour again, fine. But right now, if you said to me: “Can you go on the road in a month?” I couldn’t say yes.’
‘I mean, if I could tour, I’d tour. But right now I can’t book tours because right now I don’t think I could pull them off.’
Ozzy has said even though his voice is fine, a spinal injury he sustained four years ago has left him weak.
But he hit out at reports about his health, saying: ‘The f****** Press drive you nuts. I mean, I looked in the magazine: ‘Ozzy’s on his last legs.’
‘I’m f****** not dying… come on, guys. Haven’t I had it bad enough already? If I get okay today, if the doctor said to me today: “Oh, you can tour,” it would take another six months to get it together, you know?’
He added about his ongoing health woes – which have led to him recently using a walking cane: ‘You’ve got no idea. You got no idea what my… I feel like a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.
‘The only thing I’ve got that keeps me going is making records. But I can’t do that forever. I gotta get out there…. [I’m] still in constant pain. I do to the best I can to stay away from the pain medication, but there are times when I go: “You know, I’ve gotta take something,”‘ Ozzy admitted.
‘I mean, last week I couldn’t…I’ve been sleeping great, and all of a sudden for two back-to-back nights. I never slept a wink. If you’re gonna torture me, just keep me awake for a couple of days. I’ll tell you whatever the f*** you want me to say.’
Rocker: Despite his health woes he carried on with his walk in good spirits and got in some exercise alongside his carer
Enjoying the sunshine: In January 2020 Ozzy revealed that he has Parkinson’s in an emotional interview with his wife Sharon
Musician: The then-71-year-old sat down with Good Morning America to reveal he could no longer hide his health struggles and that he is on a ‘whole host’ of medications to treat his nerve pain
Sidewalk: It began, he said, when he suffered a fall in 2019 and had to undergo surgery for it. After that, he started experiencing nerve pain and doctors have had a hard time pinpointing whether the fall, the surgery, or his condition are to blame for his condition
Getting the steps in: Insisting he was ‘far from’ his deathbed – as had been misreported – he said he wanted to ‘own up’ to his condition for the sake of his fans
WHAT IS PARKINSON’S?
Parkinson’s disease affects one in 500 people, including about one million Americans.
It causes muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, tremors, sleep disturbance, chronic fatigue, an impaired quality of life and can lead to severe disability.
It is a progressive neurological condition that destroys cells in the part of the brain that controls movement.
Sufferers are known to have diminished supplies of dopamine because nerve cells that make it have died.
There is currently no cure and no way of stopping the progression of the disease, but hundreds of scientific trials are underway to try and change that.
The disease claimed the life of boxing legend Muhammad Ali in 2016.
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