Ozzy Osbourne: I slept with three groupies in one night

Nov 1 2009 by Gregg Evans, Sunday Mercury

Off comes her dress, down go my trousers and after five minutes... off she went.

“These Holiday Inns are magic, I thought. Then there was another knock at the door. You can guess what happened next.

“I banged three chicks that night. Three. Without even leaving my hotel room.”

Ozzy married Thelma in 1971 and became a stepfather to her son Elliot.

She gave birth to their first child Jessica the following year and Louis was born in 1975.

Yet in his book he says he didn’t know what it was like to fall in love before he met current wife Sharon – daughter to Black Sabbath manager Don Arden.

And it was his love for excessive partying, alcohol but most of all cocaine that took hold as his first marriage crumbled.

“I was in love, immediately (with cocaine). It’s the same with just about every drug I’ve ever taken: the first time I try it, that’s how I want it to feel for the rest of my life,” he said.

“Every day I’d be smoking dope, boozing, having a few toots of coke, f*****g around with speed or barbiturates or cough syrup, doing acid, you name it.

“I didn’t know what day it was most of the time.”

In 1977 the star’s beloved father, Jack Osbourne, had passed away and he began drifting away from his family, friends and bandmates.

Two years later Black Sabbath founder and lead guitarist Tony Iommi kicked Ozzy out of the world-conquering band – which ultimately led to his divorce from Thelma.

“I must have been a horrendous step-dad,” he said.

“And if I loved Thelma, I certainly didn’t treat her like I did. If I’ve got any regrets about my life that’s one of them.

“For years, I acted like a married bachelor, sneaking around, banging chicks, getting so wasted down the pub that I’d fall asleep in the car on the street outside.

“I put that woman through hell. I should have never married her.

“She didn’t deserve it: she wasn’t a bad person, and she wasn’t a bad wife.

“But I was a f*****g nightmare.”

Before hitting the big time Ozzy – whose real name is John – had an 18-month stint working in a Digbeth slaughterhouse.

He had also spent time in Winson Green prison for “breaking and entering and stealing goods to the value of £25.”

Yet the now multi-millionaire admits he was a hopeless criminal as it took him three attempts to raid a clothes shop called Sarah Clarke’s, behind his house in Aston. Ozzy said: “During the first break-in I grabbed a load of hangers and thought, magic, I’ll be able to flog this stuff down the pub.

“But I’d forgotten to take a torch with me and it turned out that the clothes I’d nicked were a bunch of baby bibs and toddler underpants.

“So I went back. This time I nicked a 24-inch telly. But the f*****g thing was too heavy for me to carry and when I was climbing over the back wall it fell on my chest and I couldn’t move for about an hour.

“On my third attempt I managed to nick some shirts. I even had the bright idea to wear a pair of gloves like a true professional. The only problem was that one of the gloves was missing a thumb so I left perfect prints all over the place.”

Ozzy was arrested and brought before a Birmingham judge. He was hit with a fine but was jailed as he could not afford to pay it off.

After eventually splitting from Thelma, now a teacher in Leicestershire, Ozzy began a relationship with his then-manager Sharon.