Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne Reflect On The Time He Tried To Kill Her In New Documentary

In the new documentary, Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne and her husband, singer Ozzy Osbourne, opened up about the time he attempted to kill her.

“[That incident was] not exactly one of my greatest achievements,” the Black Sabbath singer, 71, said in the documentary.

He continued:

“I felt the calmest I had ever felt in my life. I was just peaceful. … 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 read, ‘John Michael Osbourne, you have been arrested for attempted murder.’”

Although Sharon says she cannot recall the incident in detail, the 67-year-old Grammy winner stated that she “didn’t recognize him” that night “because of the drugs.”

“I had no idea who was sat across from me on the sofa, but it wasn’t my husband,” she explained. “He goes to a stage where he gets that look in his eyes, the shutters were down, and I just couldn’t get through to him. And he just said, ‘We’ve come to a decision that you’ve got to die.’ He was calm — very calm — then suddenly, he lunged across at me and just dived on me and started to choke me. He got me down on the ground on top of me.”

At the time of the event, The Talk co-host says she located the panic button as she felt “for stuff on the table”…. In an instant, she “pressed [the button], and the next thing I know, the cops were there.”

Afterward, Ozzy spent several months in a medical detention center, while Sharon chose to remain by his side.

“Thank God the judge put him in treatment for six months. I had time to really think about what he should do,” she said. “I told him, ‘I don’t want the money… but if you do this again, either I am going to kill you, or you are going to kill me. And do you want that for the kids?’”

The couple, who married in 1982, share three adult children, Aimee, 37, Kelly, 35, and Jack, 34. The documentary premiered on A&E on Monday, September 7.