Ozzy Osbourne wrote about heart problems
This past July, Ozzy Osbourne passed away from a heart attack at the age of 76. At the time of his death, the Black Sabbath frontman was working on his new memoir, “Last Rites.” According to Louder Sound, Ozzy completed the book’s final chapter following his farewell show “Back to the Beginning,” which took place on July 5th just days before he died.
In the chapter, Osbourne revealed that he had been suffering from serious heart problems, including arrhythmia and “a dodgy heart valve.”
“It’s never silly little things,” Osbourne wrote of his health. “It’s always life-or-death.”
He continued, explaining that his heart issues were caused by a sepsis infection he contracted in 2023 after having spinal surgery.
“The valve is 80 percent blocked, apparently,” he said. “The sepsis also gave me something called arrhythmia – when your heart can’t keep time, like a drummer in a bad pub band – so cheers for that.”
Osbourne went on to explain that his doctors refused to operate on his valve as it would have required him to stop taking blood thinners, which he took to help manage his Parkinson’s disease.
Stopping his blood thinners “would be too dangerous,” he added. “Meanwhile, the thinners mean if I ever fall over, I’d bleed out in about five seconds. I’ve honestly lost count of the ways in which getting old sucks.”
Osbourne’s memoir “Last Rites” was announced on July 10, just under two weeks before his death, and was released on October 7.
