Ozzy Osbourne Becomes Health Columnist For The Sunday Times
Ozzy Osbourne “When The Sunday Times Magazine asked me to be its new health-advice columnist — Dr Ozzy, as I’ll be known from now on — I thought they were taking the piss, to be honest with you.”
“But then I thought about it for a while, and it makes perfect sense: I’ve seen literally thousands of doctors over my lifetime, and spent well over £1m on them, to the point where I sometimes think I know more about being a doctor than doctors do.
“If people can learn from my stupid mistakes without having to repeat any of them, or if they can take some comfort from the crazy things my family has been through over the years, or if just hearing me talk about colonoscopies makes them less embarrassed about getting tested for colon cancer, that’s more than enough for me.
‘Dr Ozzy’ will answer readers' questions in his weekly column. “By all accounts, I’m a medical miracle,” Osbourne said. “When I die, I should donate my body to the Natural History Museum.
“It’s all very well going on a bender for a couple of days — but mine went on for 40 years. At one point, I was knocking back four bottles of cognac a day, blacking out, coming to again, and carrying on.
“While filming The Osbournes, I was shoving 42 types of prescription medication down my neck, morning, noon and night — and that was before all the dope I was smoking in my “safe” room, away from the cameras. Meanwhile, I used to get through cigars like they were cigarettes.”
