Ozzy Osbourne is known as"the Prince of Darkness" and for his crazy antics on stage and off, but the singer and and entertainment personality is opening up about something more serious.
To complicate the matters further, Osbourne revealed he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that progresses slowly in most people, and has no cure. "I got a numbness down this arm for the surgery, my legs keep going cold," he said."I don't know if that's the Parkinson's or what, you know, but that's -- see, that's the problem. Because they cut nerves when they did the surgery. I'd never heard of nerve pain, and it's a weird feeling."
In his family, it was his son, Jack, and his daughter Kelly, who first realized that something wasn't right with their dad.Kelly opened up about what life has been like for their family in the past year even if it was difficult to face their new reality head on."It's kind of become a bit of -- I think a role reversal for us, where we have to be like, 'Snap out of it. Come on we -- we have to all admit what's happening here,' so that we can get over this.
Osbourne's son, Jack, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012, said he can relate to his father. "Coming from a working class background, I hate to let people down. I hate to not do my job," said Osbourne."And so when I see my wife goin' to work, my kids goin' to work, everybody's doing -- tryin' to be helpful to me, that gets me down because I can't contribute to my family, you know."