I have been a fan of the Great Ozzy since 1988 when I was going through what I thought to be the darkest point of my life. I was going on 13 I was pretty strung out most of the time. This was not my best point of life. I would drink and do what ever drugs I could get my hands on just to make through the day at school. let alone tha amounts of liquor I would drink in order to make it through the day at home. I was abused by several people. trying to keep the secret of rape from everyone and hid all the pain i felt. several friends at the time turned me to the God Himself in order to find some peace and relax. I had finally found awayto pull myself from the pain and fear I had with out plying myself with drugs and vodka. His music was that escape. I found myself at peace and finally able to write and talk about what all i was going through. When I found that my voice had fallen on deaf ears I did have a major slip. Everyone was telling me that nothing ever happened to me and i was making it all up that was when I snapped and overdosed. I learned that if I would have just stuck it out and when back to my music I would have been fine. My music had been taken from me my writing burned and myself tossed aside by those you would call family. People called my crazy I dealt with it by saying then lets all take a ride on the crazy train. When the "family" pushed religion I knew what they all found to be right for them was not right for me. I search through out the world to find something that fit what my beliefs were and are. When I found the Old Religion of Paganism It felt right. My music tastes were expanding to not only include Ozzy, but Metallica, Kiss, Slayer, MotorHead among many others. I found that no matter what part of my life I was in at the time there was something that Ozzy had done that made things alot easier to deal with. Now that Im in my thirties and my kids are growing up I have found that they are alot more like me than I ever thought They love Ozzy, Coal Chamber as well as L.O.A. (Lords Of Acid) I have found that Ozzy not only has had many hardships in His life that He has overcome but He has also over come adiction as have I