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Remember how we all thought that Ozzy, even taking into consideration the fact that he treated his body like a headbanging distillery for most of his career, was too young to appear as zonked as he did on The Osbournes without a little chemical help? Well it turns out the senility-victim vibe might have been all-natural, and not prescribed by a ne'er-do-well physician, as Ozzy tried to claim a few years back.

Ozzy thought his doctor, David A. Kipper, was doping him into delirium on a quasi-legal cocktail of dangerous drugs. Apparently a lot of other people did too, as Kipper had been under scrutiny by the California Medical Board for nearly a decade for "operating lavish, unlicensed detoxification programs for Hollywood figures and other clients in hotel suites and on private estates."

"I was wiped out on pills," said Osbourne, who later filed his own complaint with the board. "I couldn't talk. I couldn't walk. I could barely stand up. I was lumbering about like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It got to the point where I was scared to close my eyes at night — afraid I might not wake up."

Unfortunately Ozzy was too "wiped out on pills" to follow up on his accusations, and Kipper was "publicly reprimanded only for poor record-keeping." Maybe Ozzy can now blame his zombie lurch on Sharon slipping him mickeys in order to keep him docile. Gotta get him on stage somehow to make up for those dollars lost to illegal downloading!

Detox Doctor Rebuked By Medical Board [LA Times via Blabbermouth]