British heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne said on Monday that he was sexually abused as a child. The former Black Sabbath frontman, who won a new generation of fans with a TV series set in his Beverly Hills home, said the abuse took place when he was a schoolboy in England. ‘‘I was sexually abused as a kid,’’ Osbourne said in an interview splashed across three pages of The Daily Mirror. ‘‘Two boys used to wait for me to come home after school. They felt me and touched me. It became a regular thing— it seemed to go on forever.’’ He said he was too scared to tell his parents and that he needed counselling later in life to come to terms with it. ‘‘When I was a kid, people did not talk about these things like they do know,’’ he said. ‘‘I worked it out with a therapist.’’ Osbourne became one of the world’s biggest heavy metal stars, selling more than 60 million albums in a three-decade career noted for its alcohol and drug-fuelled excess. After performing for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and winning a third series of his reality TV show, Osbourne said he was surprised by his long-running success. ‘‘I have had an incredible life,’’ he told the Mirror. ‘‘I am 55 on December 3 — how I survived is a miracle.’’
