I am Ozzy

by Ozzy Osbourne

Eventually, Sharon came to get me. I’d been in there six weeks. I looked better – I’d lost a bit of weight – but I’d got the whole rehab thing wrong. I thought it was supposed to cure me. But there ain’t no cure for what I’ve got. All rehab can do is tell you what’s wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better. Later, when I realised it wasn’t a solution by itself, I used to go there just to take the heat off myself a bit when things got out of hand. Rehab can work, but you’ve got to want it. If you really want to quit, you can’t say, ‘Well, I want to quit today, but I might have a drink next week at my friend’s wedding.’ You’ve got to commit, then live each day as it comes. Every morning, you’ve got to wake up and say, ‘OK, today’s gonna be one more day without a drink,’ or a cigarette, or a pill, or a joint, or whatever it is that’s been killing you. That’s as much as you can hope for when you’re an addict.