Ozzy Osbourne He is English, but has lived in the city of Los Angeles for more than 20 years. However, she has now decided to return to his country of birth and explained that this is due to “great gun violence” in the United States.

Osbourne and his wife Sharon they are returning to their Buckinghamshire mansionThe Black Sabbath singer told British newspaper The Observer in a recent interview.

The life of the Osbourne family in California was documented in the popular MTV reality show The Osbournein the early 2000s.

harsh criticism

In the relationship, Ozzy harshly criticized American society: “I don’t want to die in America. I don’t want to be buried in the fucking Forest Lawn Cemetery. I’m British and I want to go home.”

He claimed that “everything is fucking ridiculous” in the United States and said he was “sick of people dying every day”.

“God only knows how many people were killed in the school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Las Vegas at that concert as well. It’s crazy,” said the artist.

There were more than 440 mass shootings in the United States in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which updated its data on Monday. The Las Vegas mass shooting that Osbourne refers to occurred in 2017 and killed 58 people and remains the deadliest mass shooting in US history.

Your current business

Ozzy Osbourne plans to stay in Buckinghamshire, following his surprise appearance this month at the close of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where he reunited with fellow Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi for a version of his classic. paranoid.

It was the singer’s first stage appearance since November 2020, when he performed in Germany after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

With 73 years old and various health problems – albeit miraculously alive and in acceptable condition if you take into account the lifestyle he led marked by excesses – Ozzy Osbourne will release his 11th solo album on 9 September, patient number 9which features Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

In this sense, the musician has not ruled out future collaborations with his former partner in Black Sabbath, or new tours.

“I’ll retire the day I’m in the drawer, and anyway I’ll get up in the middle of the funeral to do an encore,” said the rocker at the end of the A&E documentary. The nine lives of Ozzy Osbourne.

For her part, Sharon Osbourne said that “America has changed drastically” and said that “there is nothing united”. She got into controversial debates last year when she defended her friend Piers Morgan in an argument with Sheri Underwood on an episode of her morning show. The speechand later left the show after former colleagues accused her of using racist and homophobic language.

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