Ozzy Osbourne to undergo surgery to realign neck and back pins

Ozzy Osbourne will undergo “major” neck and back surgery this week related to injuries he sustained from a fall in 2019, sources have revealed.

Ozzy Osbourne is set to undergo gruelling surgery to remove and realign pins in his neck and back, Page Six is told.

The Black Sabbath star’s wife Sharon Osbourne has flown from London to be by his side.

There will be a “lengthy amount of convalescence” after the operation, according to a family source, and the singer will need a nurse at home.

The source added: “Ozzy is 73 and any kind of surgery when you get older is difficult. This is quite major. He’s having the pins in his neck and back realigned from when he had a fall back in 2019.

“He’s been in a lot of pain.”

Music legend Ozzy has been looking frail in recent photographs. He was last pictured in May, shortly after he and wife Sharon battled Covid.

Ozzy pictured visiting an LA recording studio on May 22nd. Picture: The Image Direct/Splash News

Speaking on the British talk show The Talk last week, Sharon said the “major operation” could “determine the rest of his life”.

“He has a very major operation on Monday, and I have to be there,” the 69-year-old TV star said. “It’s really going to determine the rest of his life.”

Ozzy suffered injuries during a quad biking accident in 2003, exacerbated in 2019 by a fall at his LA home that required 15 screws to be inserted in his spine.

“I came down really, really hard,” he told Rolling Stone. “I went slam – on my face.” He had woken up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and tripped in the dark.

The injury sustained and subsequent surgery – which included a two-month recovery – to ease the pain forced the rock star to reschedule all of his 2019 live dates on the No More Tours 2 Tour.

The singer said the surgery left him with nerve damage, and in 2020 he revealed a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. “I’m not dying from Parkinson’s. I’ve been working with it most of my life,” he said.

Ozzy has suffered neck and back issues since an accident in 2003. Picture: Bryan Steffy/Getty Images.

Last month, Ozzy told Classic Rock magazine he was waiting for surgery on his neck.

“I can’t walk properly these days, he said: “I have physical therapy every morning. I am somewhat better, but nowhere near as much as I want to be to go back on the road.”

When asked if he ever thought about his own mortality, Ozzy said he felt optimistic about his future as he looked back on the past.

“At f***ing 73, I’ve done pretty well,” he said. “I don’t plan on going anywhere, but my time’s going to come.”

Ozzy Osbourne is soon to become a grandfather, with daughter Kelly Osbourne expecting her first child. Picture: Rich Fury/Getty Images

While recovering in 2019, he made the album Ordinary Man, which became his highest-charting solo album in the UK and US, reaching No 3 in both countries.

On Monday, Sharon and their daughter Kelly Osbourne were seen visiting the rocker in hospital, both wearing face masks with Sharon wheeling luggage behind her.

Kelly, 37, is currently pregnant with her first child with musician boyfriend Sid Wilson of Slipknot.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

Originally published as Ozzy Osbourne to undergo surgery to realign neck and back pins