Ozzy Osbourne has revealed how he thought he was going to die after battling multiple ailments throughout 2019.
The 70-year-old rock star was hospitalised with pneumonia at the beginning of this year, and shortly afterwards suffered a fall at his LA home, which dislodged the metal rods in his spine that had been put in after a quad-bike accident in 2003.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper's Weekend magazine, Osbourne admits the fall led him to believe he was going to die because he thought he was paralysed and knew the injuries were serious.
"I went to the bathroom in the night, lost my balance and landed flat on my face. I saw this big white flash when I hit the floor and I thought, 'You've finally done it now. I knew it was bad, I thought I was paralysed, so very calmly I said, 'Sharon, I can't move. I think I've done my neck. Phone an ambulance'".
The Black Sabbath star underwent three separate operations that left him in hospital for three months.
Osbourne admits hewas in ''constant'' pain and even believed his wife Sharon Osbourne was lying to him.
He added: ''The pain is constant. The first six months I was in agony. I'd say, 'Sharon - you're not telling me the truth. I'm dying, aren't I?' I thought I'd got some terminal illness because the improvement was so slow.
''I'm getting better, but after the surgery the nurses asked me on a scale of one to ten how much pain I was in, and I said, '55!' Six months of waking up in the morning and being unable to move is a miserable existence.''
Osbourne says he's "cheated death many times" and joked about how he has nine lives.
''I've cheated death many times and I've got away with it for years, yet since I hit 70 everything's happened. But then I thought I'd be dead by 40, so I've still got a few of my nine lives yet," he said.
''When I die and they're nailing the lid on my coffin,' he says, 'I'm thinking of having them play a recording of my voice at the service, shouting, 'I'm not dead yet!' That'll scare them!''
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