False Facts About Ozzy Osbourne You Always Thought Were True

A major part of the comedy of The Osbournes came from the juxtaposition of Ozzy Osbourne — black-clad heavy metal icon — shuffling around his Los Angeles mansion, getting involved in sitcom-level hijinks, and being baffled by technology, such as a TV and its complicated remote control. The end result was that Osbourne wasn't an evil rock lord but a harmless old man, who, like a lot of elderly people, had a tough time operating gadgets. 

Yes, Osbourne had a hard time navigating the modern world, but it wasn't because he was a fuddy-duddy. He was actually just drunk, high on drugs, or both. "As Ozzy will tell you, the three years that we were filming, Ozzy was stoned the whole time," Sharon Osbourne told BBC Radio 2's Line of Enquiry (via The Daily Record) in 2009. "He wasn't sober for one day." Ozzy explained that after filming would end wrap up each day, he would "go in my little bunker and smoke a pipe and drink about a case of beer." He added that he "used to do a lot of prescription drugs as well."

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