Late Pals actor Matthew Perry attended Alcoholics Nameless conferences at Ozzy Osbourne’s home.
Osbourne makes the revelation in his new, posthumously printed memoir Final Rites, which got here out on Tuesday (October 7). In an extract printed by US Weekly, the Prince Of Darkness remembers Perry as “the funniest, most proficient bloke”.
“He used to come back to our home for AA conferences, or so my spouse tells me,” the singer writes. “The funniest, most proficient bloke. And he was attempting so arduous to remain on the proper path.”
Perry spoke many instances about his points with substance habit earlier than he handed away in October 2023, aged 54. His demise was attributed to the results of ketamine, in addition to drowning and coronary coronary heart illness. Osbourne writes about his response to Perry’s passing in his memoir.
“Then at some point he listened to his habit telling him it was OK to get loaded, and that was it – recreation over,” he says. “I felt so unhappy after they mentioned he’d been present in his sizzling tub, unresponsive, with ketamine in his system. He’d given all the things he needed to keep clear. Nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient.”
Osbourne additionally wrestled with substance addictions throughout his life, however by the point of his demise on the age of 76 this July, he was clear and sober. In Final Rites, he says that 2012 was the final time he “fell off the wagon”.
Osbourne’s demise was attributed to a coronary heart assault, which he suffered at his dwelling in Buckinghamshire. Within the last chapter of Final Rites, written shortly earlier than the singer handed away, he admits that he had doubtlessly severe coronary heart issues, together with a blocked valve and arrhythmia. The circumstances have been attributable to sepsis that Osbourne contracted after present process his final process in a sequence of spinal surgical procedures in 2023.
“The valve is 80 % blocked, apparently,” Osbourne writes. “The sepsis additionally gave me one thing known as arrhythmia – when your coronary heart can’t preserve time, like a drummer in a nasty pub band – so cheers for that.”
Final Rites centres across the last years of Osbourne’s life, a interval additionally lined by two new documentaries. On October 2, the BBC aired Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Dwelling: a one-hour programme concerning the couple’s transfer from the USA again to their native UK. On October 7, the two-hour movie Ozzy: No Escape From Now was launched through Paramount Plus.
