Ozzy Osbourne, the “tormented but infinite” love with his wife Sharon, mother of three of her six children

In the reckless life of Ozzy Osbournedied today at 76 years after a long battle against Parkinson’s, there was a real great pillar: his wife and manager Sharon Ardenat his side for almost fifty years. The two met in the 70s, when Sharon worked for his father, the well -known musical impresario Don Arden. At the time Ozzy was the most famous rocker in the world, as well as the most transgressive. The success achieved with i Black Sabbathcombined with an indomitable and turbulent nature, had pushed him into a dangerous spiral of drugs, alcohol and excesses. “If it hadn’t been for Sharon», He would have confessed many years later,”I would have died, or in prisonor in rehabilitation. But above all I would have died. A thousand times ». In 1979, when i Black Sabbath They decided to osterome Ozzy from the band due to his heavy addictions and out of control behaviors, the singer was caught by one psychosis Maniac-depressive and locked himself in a hotel in Los Angeles between drugs and alcohol. It was Sharon who “saved” him and pushed him to embark on his career from soloist.

Two years later, In 1982, Ozzy and Sharon became husband and wife And she then convinced him to enter Rehab to detoxify. The tranquility of the couple, however, did not last long. He in 1989, completely drunk, he tried to strangle her and ended up in prison on charges of attempted homocide. Sharon’s forgiveness avoided the trial, as long as he followed a rehabilitation program from alcohol. The next decade was a vortex of excesses, crisis and resetting, with Arden forced to save Osbourne several times from self -destruction. At the time the singer was already the father of three children had his first wife Thelma RileyEnglish teacher married in 1971 (ended marriage due to his addictions). Three other children were born from love with Sharon: Aimee, Kelly – that during the father’s last concert in Birmingham he received the marriage proposal from boyfriend Sid Wilson – e Jack.

In the early 2000s, the family life of Ozzy, his wife Sharon and their three children became the theme of a TV program entitled The Osbourns: The reality show for four seasons told their daily life made of disordered affection, discussions over the lines and moments of touching humanity. Then in 2016, after more than thirty years of marriage, a new twist: Sharon, after discovering that Ozzy translated it with the hairdresser Michelle Pugh, he left his husband. When the crisis became public, the singer confessed to being dependent on sex and that he had started a therapeutic path: “I ruined my marriage, but I love my wife». The year after the two renewed their wedding votesand Sharon explained: «We are stronger than before. Love is not enough, it takes respect and he has learned ».

Even after the discovery of Ozzy’s disease, diagnosed in 2020, Arden has always remained next to her husband. Their relationship, as they had explained years ago, “was often wild, tormented and dangerousbut It was our infinite love that keeps us together». And he kept them together, in spite of everything, until the end.