Posted on 09/11/2003 12:44:50 AM PDT by Timesink
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sharon Osbourne said she briefly left her husband, Ozzy, around the time their teenage son, Jack, entered rehab this spring.
 Sharon Osbourne, shown at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, in this May 31, 2003, file photo, said she briefly left her husband, Ozzy, around the time their teenage son, Jack, entered rehab. The Osbourne matriarch told Barbara Walters in an interview for ABC's ``20/20.'' that while the family was waiting for a bed to become available for Jack at a treatment center, her rock-star husband continued abusing alcohol and prescription drugs himself. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File) |
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The Osbourne matriarch said that while the family was waiting for a bed to become available for Jack at a treatment center, her rock-star husband continued abusing alcohol and prescription drugs himself.
"I just said, 'You just have to stop,' and he didn't. And I said, 'Well then, I'm going.' And I packed my bags, and I left," Sharon Osbourne told Barbara Walters in an interview for ABC's "20/20."
The separation lasted just a few days, she said.
"The minute I left, the next morning, he gave up drinking. But I needed to make sure that he was on a roll. That he really meant it," the 50-year-old Osbourne said. "And, after four days, I came back to see him. And he was trying so hard. So hard. Still is clean and sober."
Jack Osbourne, who spent two months in rehab for alcohol and drug abuse, acknowledged that he tried to commit suicide because he was so depressed about his mother's colon cancer, which is now in remission.
"I attempted to overdose," said the 17-year-old, who gained fame with the rest of his family on the MTV series "The Osbournes." "Take a whole bunch of pills and drink some absinthe."
The interview is scheduled to air at 10 p.m. EDT Friday.
Then on Monday, Sharon Osbourne's syndicated daytime talk show debuts.
There is no heroin, there is a root called "wormwood". Actually several of the ingredients in Absinthe could be considered poisonous in large enough quantities (but then so are some common kitchen items).
Absinthe was banned before the temperance movement really took hold. Prohibition came after the succesful banning of that demon liquor Absinthe. Some say that wormwood is chemically similar to (but not the same as) THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
The European Jagermeister is the drink that reputedly has the opiate base (the American version does not have this).
Don't know how much of the Absinthe scare and global ban is just because of the turn of last century's temperance movement. I think that marijuana, cocaine, and morphine remained legal even after absinthe was outlawed.
It is illegal to sell it in the US. It is freely available in the Czech Republic, Portugal and Spain.
Doesn't it contain heroin? Not at all.
One of the ingredients in absinthe is wormwood extract, which gives absinthe its bitter flavor and pale green color.
The active ingredient present in the wormwood is alpha-thujone.
Alpha-thujone, if ingested in large quantities over time can cause brain damage (so can alcohol) and in some cases hallucinations.
Only terminal alcoholics with an absinthe fixation experience these effects, and its mostly because absinthe is usually around 160 proof - much bang for the buck.
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