Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

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He later married Sharon Arden and had three children with her. McCollum's suicide led to allegations that Osbourne promoted suicide in his songs. At Iommi's insistence and with the support of Butler and Ward Osbourne was again fired from Black Sabbath.

Osbourne is also known as the "Godfather of Heavy Metal". In the early 2000s he became a star in his own reality show The Osbournes alongside wife/manager Sharon and two of their three children Kelly and Jack.