It's been a rough few years for Ozzy Osbourne, having canceled a few tours for health reasons and revealing his Parkinson's II diagnosis. But, don't expect the King of Darkness to call it quits just yet. His son thinks he's got about five to ten years left.
Jack Osbourne was interviewed by Collider, talking about the new Ozzy biopic, The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne set to debut on A&E this summer. During the interview, Jack compared the doc to his own documentary on his dad in 2011, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, and passingly mentioned when he expects Ozzy to call it quits:
“It’s been 10 years since the last doc came out and a lot has changed,” Jack explains. “Within the next five to 10 years, my dad’s probably gonna retire, so I just felt like it was a good time.”
Asked how he's processed the Parkinson's II diagnosis, Jack says “The toughest thing for me about that process was that, with someone like my dad, who has been a part of his craft and actively working for 50 years, is that, when you tell that person, ‘Hey, you might not be able to do that anymore,’ the worry is that, like when a racehorse can’t race anymore, they lose the will to keep going, and that was my worry. He got this really god awful diagnosis and he had a bad injury, as a result of it, and there was genuine fear that he might not be able to perform his craft anymore. That was what I found very upsetting.
“He’s in a different place now, from when we shot that. He’s doing much better. He’s come to terms with where he’s at, a little bit more, and he’s slowly recovering. I do think he’ll make it back out on the road, eventually. It was just a really tough thing to face. He had this whole tour planned, and it was difficult for him. It was difficult for all of us because we just saw how hard he was taking it.”
During an interview with Good Morning Britain earlier this year, Ozzy also expressed no desire to retire just yet. He wants to get back on stage.
"I desire to get back on stage. I'm not ready to hang up my mic yet. That's what I live for — to do shows," Ozzy told the show. He later added "The best medication I can get is being in front of an audience, which is breaking my heart, to be honest" and "[Stopping] is not an option. I have to do it. That's the only thing I've ever done in my life. That's the only thing I've ever wanted to do. That's the only thing I've felt confident about that I can do it."
Here's the trailer to the upcoming documentary The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne.
[via Kerrang!]
