Ozzy Osbourne admits he is back on drugs as he 'struggles with health woes'- but is hiding it from his wife Sharon

Ozzy Osbourne has admitted that he is back on drugs, but he is hiding it from his wife, Sharon.

The Black Sabbath star, 75, has reportedly gone back to smoking marijuana and is 'tempted to return to stronger drugs' because of his health woes, which have recently stopped him from returning to the UK.

He is believed to be struggling with his Parkinson's disease as well as his recent problems with his neck and back.

Ozzy, who relies on a wheelchair and crutches, has previously struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and confessed that he had gone back to having 'weed from time to time.'

He said on his Madhouse Chronicles podcast : 'I am happier, but I am not completely sober. I use a bit of marijuana from time to time.'

The Prince of Darkness praised his wife, 71, for being his constant motivation to keep him from swaying back to his old habits, but cannabis, which is legal in LA, has slowly crept back into his life.

'I am lucky my wife kicks my butt all the time and she would make life so difficult,' he said. 'Even with marijuana she will f***ing find it and get rid of it.'

On the podcast, Ozzy also revealed how he tried enough ketamine 'to spark him' after he was offered the medical sleep drug at a surgery.

'I went to a doctor recently and started to have this ketamine,' he explained.

'He put a tiny bit in me, but that was enough to spark me. That thing came back and weighted my brain.'

He confessed that while he stopped attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, he now questions if that was the correct decision.

He said: 'If you are out there and you are using dope and you want to get off, there is plenty of help.

'AA is a 12-step programme. It got me sorted out to a certain degree. I do not go to meetings myself anymore. Maybe I should do, I don't know.'

Ozzy, who has spoken openly about his addiction issues, feels that many rock stars and musicians that use the California approach of 'micro dosing' drugs are risking their lives. He said micro-dosing would not work for him.

The rock and roll legend admitted that during the height of his fame in the 1970s, he felt he could not 'do a thing creatively sober'.

'I was the king of the world, a rock star and I had the biggest party ever. The thing is, I never thought I could do a f***ing thing of creativity (if I was sober).'

Ozzy has previously admitted he feels like he should have died years before some of his late 'drinking buddies' following a battle with booze and drugs.

He said he questions why he is still alive.

Ozzy discussed how he feels about outliving his friends, including Motorhead star Lemmy and UFO bass player Pete Way, who he performed with in the eighties.

He said: 'I've been doing a lot of reflection while I've been laid up, and all my drinking partners, I've realised they're all f*ing dead.

'I should have been dead before loads of them. Why am I the last man standing? Sometimes I look in the ­mirror and go, 'Why the f*k did you make it?'.

'I should have been dead a thousand times. I've had my stomach pumped God knows how many times.'

Ozzy, who has sold more than 100million records throughout his illustrious career, announced earlier this year his plans to retire from touring.

The British musician was diagnosed with a mild form of Parkinson's disease in 2003, however he only went public with the condition in 2020.

Ozzy has said that his biggest struggles are due to a fall which he suffered in 2019 which caused metal rods in his back to dislodge.

The rods had been put there following a quad bike accident at his Buckinghamshire home in 2003.

He told Rolling Stone UK magazine: 'The second surgery went drastically wrong and virtually left me crippled.

'I thought I'd be up and running after the second and third, but with the last one they put a f*ing rod in my spine.

'They found a tumour in one of the vertebrae, so they had to dig all that out too. It's pretty rough, man, and my balance is all f*ed up.'

Last year Ozzy's wife Sharon proudly accepted The Icon honour trophy for her ailing husband at the Rolling Stone UK Awards at London's Camden Roundhouse.

Ozzy was too till to travel to the star-studded ceremony where the 'prince of darkness' was honoured for his 55-years in the music industry.

The rock and roll star to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath and was due to give speech at the ceremony.

A beaming Sharon gave a rousing speech on her husband's behalf before introducing a video message from the man himself.

Sharon said: 'At times I've just felt so helpless and so bad for Ozzy. He's gone through all these operations and the whole thing has felt like a nightmare.

'He hasn't lost his sense of humour, but I look at my husband and he's here while everyone else is out on the road.

'This is the longest time he hasn't ever worked for. Being at home for so long has been so foreign to him.'