Ozzy Osbourne Says Christmas 'Gets Right Up My F—ing Arshole,' Claims He Once Drank '28 Gallons of Booze' over Holidays

Ozzy Osbourne may be happy that the holiday season is coming to an end

The “Crazy Train” singer said he once drank “28 liters of booze” to survive Christmas.

“I fucking hate Christmas. It gets in my ass,” Osbourne, 76, said, according to Sun. “When I was drinking and fucking, I bought a 28-gallon keg of booze for myself. I drank it before fucking Christmas Eve.”

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The Black Sabbath rocker has spoken openly about his past drug and alcohol use. On his podcast The Osbournes podcast which he shares with wife Sharon, admitted during an episode in September that he is not “completely sober” but refuses to microdose anything else.

– From time to time I use a little marijuana – said Ozzy and added that Sharon (72) makes sure that he does not use anything more intense than marijuana. “My wife keeps hitting my ass,” he added. “She would make my life fucking miserable.”

“The message is, if you’re out there doing drugs and you want to get off, there’s a lot of help out there,” Ozzy said, adding that Alcoholics Anonymous “put him together to a degree.”

Ozzy Osbourne in Cleveland in October 2024.

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Sharon claimed during the 2024 episode Celebrity Big Brother that Ozzy was “high on every episode” of their reality series The Osbournes which lasted from 2002 to 2005.

“He was never sober,” she continued. “He’s never seen it, he doesn’t want to see it and he’s never seen a single episode.”

Ozzy Osbourne in Burbank in February 2024.

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Ozzy’s addiction problems began in the 1970s, and he first entered rehab in 1984.

“I was always self-medicating because I never liked how I felt,” he said Diversity in 2021. “I’ve had a lot of success in my life, but I’ve never felt great about myself. And so from an early age I sniffed fumes, all kinds of things, anything to get me out of my head.”

Elsewhere in the interview, he added: “I should have been dead 1,000 times.”

If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, contact the SAMHSA Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.

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