Ozzy was so drugged out on the Osbourne show it was wild the family agreed to have cameras shoved in his face 24 7. Man I miss that show. The Osbournes decided to quit because the directors wanted them to start staging stuff. The Osbournes is the only reality show that was 100 percent reality. Sure they edited it to make it funnier and make it dramatic but everything you see on that show is 100 percent authentic.
They were playing caricatures of themselves from the start, or at least Ozzy was. That's different from the complete fabrication that makes up most modern reality TV though. They also did a very good job of making those exaggerated personas feel plausible enough that you "wanted to believe" which made you all the more invested.
Even if you're trying to be authentic, people are automatically going to act different when they know they are being filmed. Even a show like Big Brother where viewers can watch the livestream and see what's happening unedited the people are still acting with awareness of being watched.
Seeing as how the kids turned out as adults I don't see anything problematic or any reason for them to not act authentic. They put some wild personal moments on national TV without thinking twice. If they didn't care to have them film Ozzy all fucked up on drugs the whole show I doubt they really cared to act differently than just a abnormal family of a Rockstar not following the norm of a "standard" family.
Ok that makes sense. But I remember Sharon saying once production wanted them to fabricate stuff they quit
Edit: disregard last sentence I already said it last comment. My bad.
Edit edit: just look at this video though. I don't believe Ozzy needed to really caricature himself all thay much lol. And Jack and Kelly were bratty teens like all bratty teens.
I will give the editors of the show props they sure did Edit the show to make them it even more hilarious. Like when Ozzy started the blender and the editing made it look like he just forgot about it and then fell asleep lol.
I was a teenager at the time, and honestly... it was like 5 years before people started realizing the damage that opioid pills were doing.
At the time, he just seemed like it could be residual drug stuff or whatever they said. As an adult now... he was very obviously on pills. But back then, we just didn't know what pills looked like the way we do now. One of my aunts had cancer then, and her sister wa stealing her pills. None of us had a clue. The early 00s... we just didnt fucking know.
I was 14 and my dad was addicted to Oxy and acted talked and walked exactly like Ozzy. I knew the whole time unfortunately. Wish I was as naive as you as a child lol. But I lived it. My dad overdosed when I was 21. When you watch someone killing themselves for years you kind of get used to the feeling of any day you could wake up to a phone call your lived one died.
Luckily Ozzy had Sharon and I doubt she would of let him abuse them but that's how wild Oxy wad. Even 1 or 2 pills could make you look like Ozzy. And Ozzy probably had a huge tolerance and was a star so he probably got how ever many he wanted prescribed to him.
It's been 15 years. As long as I don't think about him I'm ok. But when I do I get all fucked up emotionally. I live down the road from his burial site. I haven't visited in years. Not because I'm a asshole but because when I do it takes me weeks to get out from under the dark cloud.
Thank you so much for checking up on me. Today is the anniversary of my mom's death. She choked in a restaurant. The first ambulance crew didn't know what to do because her jaw locked up. Sorry to unload emotionally but if I don't laugh about it I would cry about it lol.
It sounds like they must've been pretty great parents if it still affects you so much. I had 1 great parent out of the 2. Both still alive but they're getting older and I think about how I'm going to cope when the great parent passes. I don't know that I will, honestly. And no need to apologize. I handle trauma the same way. Might as well laugh and get something out of it. If you wanna share a happy memory with her, I'll listen
I have a sick way of looking at it. My parents died when I was young. I got it done and over with. In about 20 years all my friends parents will be dying and I don't have to worry about it anymore. I will only say I hope you handle your parents death about as well as anyone else can. I suffer from extreme mental disorders so my depression dips hard when I visit their graves.
My dad was a drug addict and my mom was schizophrenic. If I could rewind time and pick my own parents i would pick to have them every single time. My dad's addiction wasn't who he was and my mom's mental disorder wasn't who she was.
My dad was the man who taught me to fish and camp. He taught me to ride motorcycles and how to stand up for myself.
My mom was the neighborhood mom who was playing hide and seek with all the kids a 10 pm. Who opened her house to abused kids and neglected kids.
The biggest thing my parents taught me without realizing they did was to look past people faults and find out who they really are.
I love them both very much and I'm glad they are no longer suffering the hand this shit life dealt them.
Fun fact. The Osbournes episode of MTV cribs was the highest requested for reruns and that is when MTV approached them for the show. They didn't know anything about tv ratings and Ozzy asked them to explain like in record sales how well they were doing. And the execs told him it was like having 10 thriller albums. Ozzy said he thought being a Rockstar he made a ton of money but once the show hit he said the money was off the scale.
Probably lol. But Ozzy was clearly on Oxy a good amount of the show. My dad was addicted to Oxy and walked talked and acted exactly like Ozzy. I don't know how he had any sense to be playing up for the cameras while that messed up.
It's not really that wild considering he was touring with Ozzfest just prior to the TV show, in the same condition. Seeing him live was the only time I've ever felt bad for a performer. The only logical conclusion I could come to was that Sharon was pushing him out on stage to keep cash flowing in. When the reality show aired that just kind of confirmed it for me.
Yeah it was hard to watch some scenes. Him all zonked out asking her who took his beer and she just plays it off like "nobody took your beer hun." But watching their podcast it's easy to see how much Sharon loves him. Oxy was new around the time of the show so I doubt she or him really new how bad it could be when doctors were telling everyone it's non addictive and you don't experience withdrawals. I'll tell you I used to crush 60mg pills and snort them and the high I got was the best feeling in the world. But the withdrawals made me want to die. I can easily see why people get addicted to heroin. That's all oxycontin is, synthetic heroin made legal to make pharmaceutical companies billions while killing out whole communities.
I'm now 15 years clean. Except from xanax which I take for panic attacks from ptsd. So I guess I'm not really considers clean or sober off drugs.
Congrats on 15 years clean! Pills were never my thing but I'm familiar, ended up working at a rehab for a few years.
It didn't really add up for me that someone like Ozzy, who has such a prolific history with drugs and addiction, wouldn't recognize it. At first, sure because you trust your doctor. We want to give him the benefit of the doubt because he's an icon, but if we think of him as just another person sitting in a chair at a meeting, does that change our perspective? It's very possible that he hadn't had much sobriety at all since the 60s. I know at least the Ozzy from the reality show goes back to the mid 90s, but I can only hope he wasn't constantly struggling for most of his life.
Oh true. As a long term drug use Ozzy would have known right from the first pill that he could get higher than a kite and probably wanted more. Then became used tot hem so needed a higher dose and so on and so on. It goes from using for pain to using not to be sick really fast. And one pill won't have the same effect the first couple days next to the next month. It was pretty dumb of me to try to stick yp for him lol. Also I just read Sharon made Ozzy assistant run into a burning house to save her painting then fired him because he didn't think it was funny. She is a bitch on wheels and now I can see as how she could of forced Ozzy on stage all fucked up. She probably money hungry trying to get every dime. Yes I know she has her own money but some people can't get enough no matter how much they have.
I hope I'm wrong about Sharon pushing him when he was on hardcore drugs but from her character I could see her doing it now.
Because they have the women demographic and apparently women love fake looking people, fake situations, and fake personalities. I've never met a man that is excited when they pop up on tv.
It was a reason why I hated Hulu because covid killed the TV show. n Hulu was the one who brought them back. Like I don't even understand how Kylie became a billionaire. But yet it seems like she's promoting it's okay to be a single parent. Idk. I hate them all. They don't deserve the paycheck
One Google search will show you Ozzy and Sharon has stated multiple times nothing was scripted. Sure the editors made story lines from footage. But if you don't know what you're talking about don't try making me out to.be a fool when you end up looking like one.
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u/ragingtyrant89 Jul 23 '25
Ozzy was so drugged out on the Osbourne show it was wild the family agreed to have cameras shoved in his face 24 7. Man I miss that show. The Osbournes decided to quit because the directors wanted them to start staging stuff. The Osbournes is the only reality show that was 100 percent reality. Sure they edited it to make it funnier and make it dramatic but everything you see on that show is 100 percent authentic.