The legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne spoke out this week to express how much he regrets cheating on his wife of 38 years, Sharon Osbourne.
Ozzy and Sharon married in 1982, but they briefly broke up in 2016 after he cheated on her. In a new interview for British GQ‘s Men of the Year issue, Ozzy admitted that he “broke her heart” and that he’s “not proud” of having an affair.
“I’ve done some pretty outrageous things in my life. I regret cheating on my wife. I don’t do it anymore,” said Ozzy, who turns 72 this week. “I got my reality check and I’m lucky she didn’t leave me. I’m not proud of that. I was pissed off with myself. But I broke her heart.”
Ozzy previously opened up about his past infidelities in a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, saying “It’s a rock ‘n’ roll thing — you rock and you roll. You take the good with the bad. When I was a crazy f—er, I’m lucky she didn’t walk out.”
The Osbournes split in May of 2016 after reports came out that Ozzy had an affair with his hairstylist, Michelle Pugh. They went on to reconcile months later in September of that year, with Ozzy saying at the time that he has “realized what a f—— idiot I was. I mean, I’m still nuts, but in control of it a bit more.”
“When I said, ‘Don’t get caught by your missus,’ I’m not proud of all that s—. I upset my wife and I upset my family and I made a lot of shock and shame. I love my wife, and it made me realize what a f—– idiot I’ve been,” he said.
Sharon publicly forgave her husband on her talk show “The Talk” in July of 2016, telling fans that she was working on reconciling her marriage.
“I forgive. It’s going take a long time to trust, but we’ve been together 36 years, 34 of marriage … I just can’t think of my life without him,” she said at the time, adding that her husband had been a bit of “a dirty dog.”
Thankfully, Ozzy and Sharon overcame this obstacle, and they seem to be doing better than ever these days.
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