For more than 20 years, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have lived in Los Angeles, now the couple has decided to turn their backs on the USA. As the Black Sabbath singer explained in an interview with The Observer, they will be moving back to the UK. There, the Osbournes already own an estate in Buckinghamshire. The 73-year-old musician was born in Aston, Birmingham.
Ozzy Osbourne: “I want to go back”
The reason for the homecoming is not primarily Ozzy’s ailing health, but in particular the gun violence. In the US, everything is “ridiculous,” said Ozzy Osbourne in the interview. “I’m fed up with people getting killed every day.” Countless people died in school shootings. “And then there was the mass shooting in Vegas at that concert…” Osbourne continues, referring to a 2017 attack at a country concert that killed 59 and injured more than 500.
“And I don’t want to die in America. I don’t want to be buried in the damn Forest Lawn.” Forest Lawn is a Hollywood cemetery where many famous people are buried. “I’m English. I want to go back.” It’s now time for him to come home, Osbourne said
