Sharon Osbourne refuels feud with Vince Neil. She was quoted as saying she sees Neil “as a pathetic 50-year-old party boy who continues to put innocent people’s lives at risk by getting behind the wheel of your car and driving drunk and being arrested for assaulting women. Enough said.”
Sharon Osbourne has reopened the long-running feud with Motley Crue’s Vince Neil, saying she has “no sympathy for him.”
Osbourne, a host on CBS’ “The Talk” and wife of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, made the comments in reference to Neil’s latest public spectacle: a brawl with actor Nicolas Cage after Neil allegedly pulled a woman to the ground by her hair last Thursday at Aria.
The Metropolitan Police Department charged Neil, 55, with battery against the woman.
Osbourne said she’s known Neil for more than 30 years, dating back to when his band toured with her husband.
She alluded to Neil’s history of partying, saying it led to the 1984 death of Hanoi Rocks’ drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley when he was a passenger in a car driven by Neil that was involved in a crash in California.
In his 2010 autobiography “Tattoos & Tequila,” Neil called Sharon Osbourne “the most evil, (expletive) woman I’ve ever met in my life.”
Her response: “Vince, of course I tried to keep my husband away from you at all costs as I truly felt you were a danger of Ozzy, yourself and everyone around you.”
She was quoted as saying she sees Neil “as a pathetic 50-year-old party boy who continues to put innocent people’s lives at risk by getting behind the wheel of your car and driving drunk and being arrested for assaulting women. Enough said.”
In 2003, Neil was arrested after a sex worker at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch alleged he grabbed her by the throat and threw her against a wall. After pleading no contest to the battery charge, he was sentenced to a 30-day jail suspension, an anger management course and fined $1,000 plus court fees of $132.
When asked about the revelation that in his newly released 320-page hardcover autobiography, “Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock’s Most Notorious Frontmen”, he calls Ozzy Osbourne‘s wife and manager Sharon the “the most evil, shittiest woman I’ve ever met in my life,” Vince replied, “The thing about Sharon is, I don’t hate Sharon — I never have. But when you read the book, this is really just my view of Sharon 26 years ago, because she was not nice to MÖTLEY CRÜE. We called it the ‘No Fun Tour’. We had T-shirts made up with smiley faces and bulletholes and passed them out to all the road crews. She wouldn’t let us have girls backstage , she only gave us a case of beer between all of us… It wasn’t any fun. But when she left, that’s when we all had a great time with Ozzy. And I haven’t even talked with Sharon since those days except for we just got off the Ozzfest tour a few weeks ago, and everything’s great. But she doesn’t understand that that’s my view of her back then.”
Q: Do you think that she will understand that that’s an opinion you had then? ‘Cause I wasn’t quite sure reading the book that that’s really what it was. I thought maybe you still felt that way today.
Vince: “No, no, no… Like I said, because I haven’t really dealt with her in that long. I hope that she will realize that. But when she brought up the thing that she was trying to protect Ozzy because of when Razzle passed away, when I had the car crash [Neil‘s infamous 1984 DUI accident, which resulted in the death of Finnish glam band HANOI ROCKS‘ drummer, Nicholas ‘Razzle’ Dingley, and a vehicular manslaughter charge. — Ed.]], that didn’t happen for five months after the tour ended. That accident happened in December of ’84 and our tour was in February, March and April.”
Q: But at the time, Vince, do you think that was basically party-induced — at the time you thought that? Because, I mean, as a regular guy I would think, “Well, she kind of had a point.” I mean, some of the crap that Ozzy was doing is not what you would do if you were sober. So I don’t know if can blame her for going, “Jeez, we’ve gotta get you away from people that somehow encourage this behavior, Ozzy” — even though he probably didn’t need a lot of encouragement. What made her the most evil woman you ever met, besides what I saw [in your book]? What I saw looked like just a woman not wanting her husband to party to the point where he would die and maybe thought you guys were a bad influence. What else made her so evil to you?
Vince: “That we were bad influences when we hadn’t done anything yet. All those stories all came out of the Ozzy tour. We were just a band from L.A. that just wanted to go play. And we didn’t have any fun when she was there.”
Q: But see, Vince, what’s your definition of fun? ‘Cause what I read in the book… I mean, that’s pretty extreme. And not to be a jerk, Vince, as it turns out, as you guys did progress in your life, some bad stuff happened because of you trying to have fun and you being involved in drugs. So, I mean, I was wondering if there is anything else that Sharon did that outside of you guys just not being allowed to have fun that made her evil. ‘Cause you’re not the first person that’s said that Sharon‘s kind of not as sweet and wonderful as everybody sees her on television.
Vince: “Well, yeah. There’s lots of stories… I know a lot of people that have dealt with Sharon through the years and been really involved with her. But that’s none of my business. I’m just giving you my view of her during that tour. I didn’t like her . . . I don’t know what your point is.”
Q: Going through the book, I thought something that was interesting was when you talked about certain members of [MÖTLEY CRÜE], you brought up [bassist] Nikki [Sixx] and you kind of said that he always wants to be the guy [where] everything was his idea, and you said some of the decisions that he made for MÖTLEY CRÜE were just stupid. And I was wondering what were some of those things that you remember that you were like, “Nikki, why are we doing this?”
Vince: “Well, I mean… Jeez, it was just business decisions, mainly, that I just thought were dumb, as a businessman. Really nothing I can just pinpoint. Just through the years [there have been] bad business decisions where we could have gone on to become even bigger if things had been a little bit different.”
According to Maxine Shen NYPost.com, Sharon Osbourne is “absolutely heartbroken” after learning that the MÖTLEY CRÜE singer called her the “most evil, shittiest woman I’ve ever met in my life” in his upcoming book, Tattoos & Tequila.
“I am very, very saddened by it. My husband [Ozzy Osbourne] called him and said, ‘What’s the problem?’ and [Neil] kind of back-tracked.”
Aside from running into Neil backstage at Ozzfest this past summer, Osbourne says she hasn’t had a conversation with or seen Neil since 1984.
“I think he is probably very jealous of Ozzy, but he dare not pick on him because the fans will turn on him, so he goes after me.”
Neil wrote about Ozzy’s Bark at the Moon tour in 1984 and it was all fun and games, he recalled, until Sharon swooped in and killed everyone’s buzz when Ozzy’s antics got too out of control.
“We couldn’t do this and we couldn’t do that. There was a whole set of rules we had to follow,” Neil griped, listing Osbourne’s banning of groupies and imposition of a one beer case limit backstage as examples of those restrictions.
“She would fucking have you killed if it was to her advantage,” Neil wrote.
“He’s the murderer, not me,” she says, referring to Neil’s infamous 1984 DUI accident, which resulted in the death of Finnish glam band Hanoi Rocks’ drummer, Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley, and a vehicular manslaughter charge.
“He has murdered somebody in a car,” Osbourne says. “He crippled two other people and he is still driving drunk. And that is why I used to keep my husband away from him. And if that makes me a bad person, then I am a bad person.”
