Parenting & Family Quote by Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne isn’t polishing a redemption narrative here; he’s staging an intervention in plain language, the kind that lands because it refuses poetry. “Raging” does double duty: it’s confession and brand-consistent candor, a reminder that the chaos associated with him wasn’t just an aesthetic of rock excess but a lived, self-propelling condition. He doesn’t say “I struggled” or “I battled.” He says he was a problem with momentum.

The pivot is in the second half: the real audience isn’t the fans, the tabloids, or even himself. It’s his kids. That’s the subtext that tightens the line into something more than shock value. Addiction is framed as inheritance, not in the genetic determinist sense alone, but as a behavioral template children can absorb by proximity. “I didn’t want to see my kids do the same thing” is less about moral reform than about interrupting a script he knows too well: the glamorous myth of self-destruction turning into the mundane reality of family damage.

Context matters: Osbourne is a figure who survived the era when substance abuse was marketed as rock authenticity, then lived long enough to become a mainstream family character through The Osbournes. That cultural whiplash makes the quote work. It punctures the spectator sport of celebrity collapse and replaces it with a parental fear that’s unsellable, unsexy, and therefore convincing. It’s accountability without self-congratulation: not “look how far I’ve come,” but “look what I could pass on.”