The Los Angeles Times reports that Osbourne was taking as many as 42 pills a day while the show was being filmed. The doctor who prescribed the pills to Osbourne was coincidently under investigation at the same time for overmedicating other celebrity patients. 

Just last week the California Medical Board moved to revoke Kipper's license under charges of gross negligence in his treatment of other patients. No action has yet been taken.

Ozzy told the Los Angeles Times that he fired Dr. David Kipper earlier this year after paying $650,000 in medical bills while under his care since June 2002. The Beverly Hills doctor had prescribed Ozzy Valium Dexedrine, Mysoline, as well as a variety of other opiates, tranquilizers, amphetamines, anti-depressants and an anti-psychotic. 

"I was wiped out on pills," Osbourne told the newspaper. "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." 

An attorney for Dr. David Kipper told the Times that "virtually every allegation" in its report was "inaccurate, incomplete, or... false."

Osbourne said that he sought treatment from doctor originally for dependence on prescription narcotics,  and was successfully treated with a 10-day detoxification program. He later turned to the doctor for help with anxiety and depression triggered by his wife being diagnosed with cancer. 

After leaving Dr. Kipper, Ozzy apparently sought another doctor�s care for treatment of �tremors�. Ozzy announced in October that his new doctor had found the cause of his disorder and it wasn�t Parkinson�s, multiple sclerosis, delirium tremens or any number of ailments that the rock star was rumored to have. In the end it was a hereditary condition.

At the time MTV reported that Ozzy�s  �already looking, sounding and walking better than he has in years.� 

Shortly after discovering the condition and the cure, Ozzy gave an interview to MTV and filled them in on his ailment. "It turns out that it's a hereditary thing that I have from my mother's side of the family," Ozzy said in the interview. "This guy in Boston fixed me great. He's taken me off all the medication that I  was on. I'm taking one medication now for this tremor. 

"And [now], I haven't got the tremor." 

"I can't tell you how wonderful I feel,� Ozzy said. �Not wonderful in the respect of [being] 'stoned.' I'm not stoned. [But] with [just] a pill, it was like somebody turned the bad switch off. I feel good again." 

Ozzy has been battling the tremors since his early 20�s but they have grown steadily worst over the years. 

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