Inside The Time Ozzy Osbourne Tried To Kill Sharon Osbourne

In 1989, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne were returning from the Moscow Music Peace Festival. Ozzy reportedly downed four bottles of vodka, combined with another cocktail of drugs and tried to strangle his wife to death. "I don't know who sat across from me on the sofa but it wasn't my husband," Sharon confessed, reflecting on that infamous night (via Us Weekly). "He goes to a stage where he gets that look in his eyes... and I just couldn't get through to him. He just said 'We've come to the decision that you've got to die.' He was calm — very calm — then suddenly he lunged across me and just dived on me and started to choke me. He got me down on the ground on top of me."

According to Page Six, Sharon managed to find a panic button in the struggle and police arrived in minutes. Ozzy was arrested and woke up in jail the next morning, completely unaware of what happened. Ozzy said the next morning he felt "the calmest [he] had ever felt in his life." Remembering the incident, Ozzy said, "All I remember is waking up in Amersham jail and I asked the cop 'Why am I here?' And he says 'You want me to read your charge?' So he says 'John Michael Osbourne, you have been arrested for attempted murder.'" He noted, "[It was] not exactly one of my greatest achievements."

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