Ozzy Osbourne.Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty
Ozzy Osbourneis still planning to move back to England, but he’s not exactly looking forward to it.
Less than three months after claiming he and wifeSharonwere moving back to the U.K. due to the steep number of shootings in the U.S., the 73-year-old Black Sabbath rocker expressed second thoughts toward the decision in a newConsequencecover storypublished Monday.
“I’m getting a bit of flak from people,” Ozzy said, referencing mixed social media responses to his quotes about violence in the U.S., which were published in an August interview withThe Observer.
Shortly after making the statements, he and Sharon, 69, announced a new, 10-part BBC reality series calledHome to Roostthat will document their journey back to Britain. In the new interview, however, the “Crazy Train” musician said, “To be honest with you, if I had my way, I’d stay in America. I’m American now.”
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne.Greg Doherty/Getty
“When my wife got called a racist on [The Talk], she is absolutely not a racist,” he toldConsequence. “Her friend is Piers Morgan… She didn’t say, ‘I agree with him.’ She just respected his ability to have freedom of speech. That’s all that she said. And she got a lot of flak from that, so we actually had to have f–king armed guards and all that.”
Sharon also spoke to the outlet for the interview, explaining that Los Angeles is no longer the “heaven” she once thought it was. “In the ’70s, if you loved music, this was the place to be. It’s not that hub anymore. It’s not exciting anymore. It hasn’t gone sideways, it’s gone down,” she said. “It’s not a fun place to live. It’s dangerous here. Every big city’s got crime, but I don’t feel safe here. Neither does Ozzy.”
Ozzy, however, then expressed another strong desire to remain stateside: “To be honest with you, I don’t want to go back [to England]. F— that.”
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“Everything’s f—ing ridiculous there. I’m fed up with people getting killed every day,” Ozzy told the outlet at the time. “God knows how many people havebeen shot in school shootings. And there was thatmass shooting in Vegasat that concert… It’s f—ing crazy.”
“And I don’t want to die in America. I don’t want to be buried in f—ing Forest Lawn,” Ozzy added, noting the famous cemetery in Los Angeles. “I’m English. I want to be back. But saying that, if my wife said we’ve got to go and live in Timbuktu, I’ll go.”
“But, no, it’s just time for me to come home,” he clarified.
source: people.com
