Sharon Osbourne Says She and Husband Ozzy Osbourne Used to ‘Beat the S—t Out of Each Other’
By Eliza Thompson September 15, 2021, US Magazine
Sharon Osbourne opened up about her
nearly 40-year marriage to Ozzy Osbourne,
revealing they didn’t always get along as well as they do now.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s Relationship Timeline. “Our fights were legendary,” the former Talk cohost, 68, told
the Daily Mail in an interview published on Tuesday, September 14. “We would beat the s—t
out of each other. It stopped maybe 20 years ago, but we had a good run.”
The Celebrity Apprentice alum
wed the Black Sabbath rocker, 72, in July 1982. The duo met in 1970 when
Sharon, whose father was managing the band, was just 18. Before their
relationship turned romantic in 1979, Ozzy was married to Thelma
Riley. The former couple share daughter Jessica, 49, and son
Louis, 46.
After splitting from Riley, the musician and his second wife
welcomed three children: Aimee, 38, Kelly, 36, and Jack, 35. Though Ozzy had been known
to music fans since the 1970s, the family began reaching new audiences in 2002
with their MTV reality show, The Osbournes, which ran until March 2005.
Both spouses have been open about their tumultuous history,
which will be documented in an upcoming biopic. According to Sharon, though,
the film is “a love story” more than anything.
“It’s a movie about Ozzy’s and my life, how we came together in
the early days and our volatile relationship,” the Unbreakable author
told the Daily
Mail. “All the fights, all the makeups, all the fights, all the
arrests, all the everything. And it’s a love story... People are going to watch
it go, ‘This isn’t allowed. They shouldn’t behave that way and put it on film.’
But [we’re] only talking the truth. Some people have volatile relationships and
ours was very volatile.”
In a documentary released last year, the couple recalled a
1989 incident when Ozzy tried to choke his wife while on drugs.
“I had no idea who was [sitting] across from me on the sofa, but
it wasn’t my husband,” Sharon said in The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne.
“He goes to a stage where he gets that look in his eyes, the shutters were down
and I just couldn’t get through to him.”
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The I Am Ozzy author was
arrested for attempted murder and was sentenced to six months in medical
detention. In the film, he referred to the incident as “not exactly one of my
greatest achievements.”
Despite their many obstacles, Kelly sees their relationship as an
inspiration. “It makes me believe I’ll never find forever love, if I’m honest,” she
told Us Weekly in 2018. “It’s not because of me, by any means! I think that the world has changed
and people are not as inclined to want to work things [out].”
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