Ozzy Osbourne's dyslexia blame

19-05-2007 08:15

Ozzy Osbourne blames his alcohol addiction on his dyslexia.The former hellraiser, who has been clean and sober for two years, says he started drinking because he struggled to cope with his learning difficulty.He told Britain's The Daily Telegraph newspaper: "I've always been in fear, always blamed myself for situations that have got nothing to do with me. You wake up every day and think, 'Why am I feeling like this?' I'd be afraid because I didn't feel afraid. Alcohol made it temporarily go away, but, as time went on, the fear was breaking through the alcohol. By then I couldn't put the alcohol down." The former Black Sabbath frontman also revealed hit TV show 'The Osbournes' was originally going to be subtitled - because nobody could understand what he was saying.Ozzy, who is famous for his mumbling accent, admits even he had trouble understanding himself on his family's reality series.He said: "Even I couldn't understand what the f**k I was talking about on television. People would go to me, 'What country do you come from?' "They were going to subtitle it. They could have f***ing subtitled it in Arabic - it wouldn't have made any difference."