Earlier this year, Ozzy Osbourne and his wife and manager, Sharon, announced that they will be moving back to England after living in Los Angeles for decades.
Now, in a new interview with Consequence, Ozzy revealed that we would, in fact, prefer to stay in U.S.
“I’m getting a bit of flak from people,” Ozzy said. “To be honest with you, if I had my way, I’d stay in America. I’m American now.”
The iconic singer suggests that the couple does not feel safe in America anymore, with Sharon’s ousting from the daytime TV show The Talk acting as the final straw.
“When my wife got called a racist on [The Talk], she is absolutely not a racist,” Ozzy declares. “Her friend is Piers Morgan [who made disparaging comments about Meghan Markle]. 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*cking armed guards and all that.”
Sharon, on the other hand, points to the safety of Los Angeles: “When I first came here, I thought I was in heaven. 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. 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 then added: “To be honest with you, I don’t want to go back [to England]. F**k that.”
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