“Not to say Keith hasn’t dabbled in drugs since but he hasn’t been a serious user.”
I have Keiths’ autobiography. You have no idea. He would whip out coke after dinner and slap it right on the table in front of everyone.
One story said he was asked not to do it in front of her mother. Later, at the dinner, he said it was time for dessert and slapped the coke on the table.
The poor woman’s mom was aghast and fled.
True story. He “dabbled.”
Was he a Sam Kinison level coke user or more a Charlie Sheen level? ;)
Not selling Keith’s drug use short but he never seemed to have a death wish. He seemed to be able to keep his use to a level that let him function.
Ozzy, on the other hand, has teetered on the edge of death and insanity numerous times.
When Sabbath fired Ozzy he disappeared and was later found in a nasty motel room surrounded by used food containers, empty booze bottles, bowls of prescription pills and all manner of other drugs.
Ozzy would occasionally disappear and Sharon would have to hunt him down and dry him out a bit.
During Sharon’s latest health scare their daughter Kelly said Ozzy grabbed two handfuls of pills and washed them down with vodka because he thought Sharon was dying. Luckily both lived.