Ozzy Osbourne battled a ton of health issues before his July death — to the point that he once considered putting an end to his suffering himself.

“The thought of not doing any gigs anymore — I went really into depression,” the late rock star explained in the new Paramount+ documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now. “I’m on antidepressants now, actually. Because I was getting ready to off myself at some point.”

Speaking about the period after a 2021 operation to correct a prior surgery, Osbourne quipped that his suicidal ideation was kept in check by his fear that he wouldn’t actually die.

“I’ll go there in my head and I go, ‘What are you f***ing talking about?’ Because knowing me, I’d half-do it and I’d be half-dead,” the former Black Sabbath frontman told the camera. “I mean, I wouldn’t die, you know? That’s my luck.”

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Ozzy’s wife, Sharon Osbourne, agreed that her husband was miserable at that point, saying, “Some days he wishes he was dead, he’s in so much pain [that] he can’t take it. He just wishes he could go.”

In 2019, Ozzy suffered a serious fall that left his neck broken. “You instinctively know you’ve done f***ing damage,” he recalled in the documentary.

He soon underwent surgery to repair the damage, but his problems had only just begun.

“He comes out of this surgery and he’s far worse than when he went in,” Ozzy and Sharon’s son Jack, 39, recalled.

Jack’s sister Kelly, 40, added, “I watched my dad go from being able to sit up to — I’m sorry to say this but I can’t think of anything else — having posture like f***ing Gollum [from The Lord of the Rings].”

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Sharon, 72, explained that the surgery entailed placing screws and metal plates in Ozzy’s body. They began to come loose, however, causing his bones to rub against each other. Meanwhile, he developed blood clots while he was in the hospital recovering.

“So, after three months, we brought him home, but the pain just never subsided,” Sharon recalled. “It was unbearable constantly. And I know Ozzy’s a drama queen — he’ll do anything for a pain pill — but it was for real. You can look in someone’s eyes and know.”

Ozzy added, “It’s a pain that no matter what you do it’s always there. When you’re in a certain amount of pain, it affects your thought pattern and everything. You can’t enjoy anything.”

The rocker dealt with that pain for two years before he finally saw another surgeon who confirmed that the original doctor was “overly aggressive” with treatment. The new doctor proposed another operation to correct the first one.

It was following this surgery that Ozzy fell into a depression so deep that he considered suicide after having to cancel his planned farewell tour.

“I must have had more f***ing surgeries than I ever dreamed I would be having in my life,” he recalled in the film. “You get off your back, you climb up that mountain again, you get to the top and you get kicked back down. So, you lose a bit of your self-confidence, you know.”

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After the corrective surgery in 2021, Ozzy was still in pain, but he was able to return to the recording studio to record his 13th and final solo album, Patient Number 9. He was also well enough to perform at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and appear at his 2024 induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.

Ozzy died in July at age 76 after suffering a heart attack. Weeks before his death, he performed his final concert ever in his hometown of Birmingham, England.

“It’s my last hurrah, so it’s gonna be pretty emotional for me up there,” Ozzy said in the documentary. “I just hope I don’t think of Sharon when I’m up there. Because then the f***ing tears will start coming. We’ve done a lot of miles together, me and my old girl. This is it. This is the last thing. And I’ve accepted it, you know.”

Ozzy: No Escape From Now premieres on Paramount+ Tuesday, October 7.

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