Osbourne Says Sabbath Reunion Didn’t Lead to Relapse

In an interview with Revolver magazine, Ozzy Osbourne informed the publication that although he relapsed during the making of Black Sabbath’s reunion album, 13, that process didn’t lead him back into the world of drugs and alcohol.

“It wasn’t Black Sabbath,” explained Osbourne. “I’m an alcoholic. It’s my disease.”

The singer, whose epic drug and alcohol use throughout his career has become a thing of legend and dismay, admitted in April (via Facebook) that he had been abusing substances for the last year and a half, but was then 44 days sober. Before Osbourne’s bad habits crept back into the picture again, he had been seven years sober.

“If I don’t go to these AA meetings, I tell myself, ‘You can have a line of that. You can smoke that or whatever,’” continued Osbourne. “Next thing you know, I’m fucking on my own somewhere in L.A. I don’t know why. I’m my own worst enemy. The idea of having one drink or one joint or one line of coke or whatever, my whole fucking life caves in. It’s a bad thing. I haven’t drunk now for maybe nine months.”

Following Osbourne’s April admission, rumours that he and his wife Sharon were divorcing floated about, but were dismissed by the singer. When Revolver asked Osbourne about how he and Sharon got back on the same page, he admitted: “very difficultly.”

He followed that with a more detailed explanation: “She knows what it’s all about. When you’re stuck in a fucking hotel room in the middle of nowhere with time on your hands…you spend the rest of the time in your head in your own fucking room left to your own devices. It’s fucking bad.”

Black Sabbath recently announced that they would be making 10 Canada tour stops in early 2014. You can check out those dates right here.