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Rocker Ozzy 'Wiped Out' on 42 Pills A Day

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Rocker Ozzy Osbourne has told how he was “wiped out on pills” during his stumbling performances on the reality TV show, The Osbournes.The British star said he was taking up to 42 tablets a day, including Valium, during the making of the MTV show, which was seen by millions of viewers worldwide.The medication had been prescribed by a doctor since fired by the former Black Sabbath frontman.Throughout the series, Osbourne was seen staggering and slurring his words.“I was wiped out on pills. I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t walk. I could barely stand up,” he said.“I was lumbering about like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.”He told the Los Angeles Times: “It got to the point where I was scared to close my eyes at night, afraid I might not wake up.”

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In the end Osbourne was taking 13 different types of medication. The result was the staggering and slurring seen by millions on the MTV show.Among the medications prescribed were Valium, Dexedrine, Mysoline and Adderall, which Osbourne described as a “cocktail”.He said the doctor often took the tablets to the family’s mansion in Beverly Hills, California.“Sometimes I went to get it at his office... I quite liked it,” he added.Experts told the newspaper that the drug regime was “outrageous”. The doctor in question charged the Osbourne’s more than £400,000 for his services before he was sacked three months ago.Last week Osbourne told how he was molested as a child.He said that at the age of 11 he was regularly molested by other boys on his way home from school in Birmingham.“I was afraid to tell my father or mother and it completely f***ed me up,” he told the Daily Mirror.