OZZY OSBOURNE - "I Thought Betty Ford Clinic Was A Club "
July 10, 2011, 13 years ago
According to Sundaymercury.net, legendary heavy metal singer OZZY OSBOURNE thought the Betty Ford Clinic was going to be a drinking club.
The outspoken rock and roll frontman was booked in to the renowned rehab centre in 1984 after his drink and drug addiction got out of hand.
“I phoned them and said ‘I’m coming in,” Ozzy, 62, recalled. “The woman asked me ‘What drugs are you doing right now?’“I told her ‘Booze and coke.’ She said ‘I want you to keep doing them until you get here.’
“Well, I thought ‘Fucking hell, this is going to be a great place!’
“Sharon told me it was a club where they would teach me to drink like a gentleman,” he added. “I got there and asked Betty where the bar was!”
Ozzy was treated at the clinic in 1984, and is one of a long list of celebrities helped back on to the straight and narrow.
Ozzy’s recollections come as America mourns Betty Ford, who died at the age of 93 on Friday.
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