‘I had a great life’: New doco follows Ozzy Osbourne’s road to farewell gig

In the official trailer for the new documentary ‘Ozzy: No Escape From Now’, the Prince of Darkness opens up about the health battles that nearly took his chance of a proper goodbye to his fans.

The doco follows Ozzy in the weeks leading up to his farewell gig just weeks before his death.

Fair warning – it’s incredibly heartbreaking, but features Ozzy’s classic sense of humour.

At one point, he jokes: “The thing about getting older, ya know, I used to take pills for fun, now I just take them to stay alive.”

It’s described as an “intimate” look at the six-year journey to Ozzy’s final Black Sabbath show earlier this year.

Ozzy, Sharon and three of their children – Kelly, Jack and Aimee – all feature to discuss Ozzy’s return to music after suffering injuries from a fall back in April 2019.

Following the accident, the metal legend had to axe large parts of his ‘No More Tours 2’, and never got to round out those final shows.

Aimee calls it Ozzy’s “biggest heartbreak”.

Kelly recalls, “It was in the middle of the night… he had broken his f***ing neck”, while Ozzy says, “I just went SMACK!”

The trailer also features footage of him in the hospital, alongside X-rays showing plates and screws.

But despite the setback and publicly revealing his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2020, Ozzy made his way back to the studio.

Kelly says: “I used to go down to the studio every single day – and it was like the magic would begin.”

“That was the best medicine I’ve ever had,” Ozzy adds.

Ozzy Osbourne made peace with the fact that he was dying as he prepared for his farewell gig.

If my life is coming to an end, I really can’t complain – I’ve had a great life.

Sharon says: “He had a brilliant career and it ended in a brilliant way.”

Ozzy died aged 76 of a heart attack on July 2.

While there’s no confirmed New Zealand streaming service, ‘Ozzy: No Escape From Now’ drops on Paramount+ in the US on October 7.