Speaking to The Sun, the rocker admitted: “When you’ve got a camera crew living in your house 24 hours a day seven days a week it gets a bit crazy.
“The kids were doing drugs and alcohol and I’d gone back on the booze.
“By the time year three came along Sharon sat us all down and said, ‘Do you want to carry on?’. Everybody just said no.”
One of the show’s main plot lines involved Ozzy trying to undo years of hard partying by eating well and running on a treadmill.
But it turned out the Black Sabbath rocker was indulging in his vices behind the scenes.