Ozzy Osbourne’s Shocking Confession: Killing 17 Pet Cats During Drug- Fueled Breakdown

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Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away at 76, once revealed he killed 17 family cats during a drug-fueled frenzy in the early 1980s—a dark turning point in his life.

Following the death of rock icon and Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne on Tuesday, the spotlight has returned to the more turbulent chapters of his life. Among the many dark moments fueled by heavy drug use, one particularly disturbing incident stood out even to Osbourne himself: the day he killed all 17 of his family’s cats in a drug-induced frenzy.

The 76-year-old singer, who battled substance abuse for much of his life, once confessed in an interview with Guitar Legends that he had killed 17 of his family’s cats during a drug-fueled episode in the early 1980s. He often referred to the disturbing incident as a turning point in his struggle with addiction.

 the announcement of his death early Tuesday morning, we revisit this haunting moment and the lasting impact it had on Ozzy Osbourne.

When Ozzy Osbourne Killed 17 Cats

The disturbing incident reportedly took place in the early 1980s, during a chaotic period in Ozzy Osbourne’s life. He had divorced his first wife, Thelma Riley, and was either newly married to or soon to marry Sharon Osbourne, his partner of over four decades. Amid a peak in his substance abuse, Ozzy fatally shot the 17 pet cats that lived with him, using a shotgun. Sharon Osbourne was not home when the incident occurred. As Ozzy later recalled, when she returned, she found him hiding under the piano, dressed in white, clutching a shotgun in one hand and a knife in the other.

“I was taking so many drugs, I was a complete wreck,” Ozzy said in the interview. “The final straw was when I shot all our cats. We had about 17 of them, and I just lost it—I went crazy and killed them all. My wife came home and found me under the piano, wearing a white suit, with a shotgun in one hand and a knife in the other.”

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Ozzy Osbourne’s Wildest Acts: Killing Chickens and Eating a Bat

In a 2000 article, Rolling Stone revealed that Ozzy Osbourne once admitted to shooting an entire henhouse full of chickens, snorting a line of ants, and biting the head off a bat.

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“. he has shot up a henhouse full of chickens, killed a whole gang of cats, snorted a line of ants as if it were cocaine, bitten the head off a bat, and flung meat—mostly stomach and intestines—into the audience,” Rolling Stone reported.

During Ozzy Osbourne’s Diary of a Madman tour, the chaos went both ways. Fans hurled live animals—including cats, chickens, frogs, and snakes—onto the stage. Some were tragically killed in the mayhem. In response, Ozzy Osbourne would lob raw cow livers and pig intestines back into the crowd.

 

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