The Story
It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. Iâve been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour.
People ask me how come Iâm still alive, and I donât know what to say. When I was growing up, if youâd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldnât have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time.
A lot of it ainât gonna be pretty. Iâve done some bad things in my time. Iâve always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ainât the devil. Iâm just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time.â
Description
It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. Iâve been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour.
People ask me how come Iâm still alive, and I donât know what to say. When I was growing up, if youâd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldnât have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time.
A lot of it ainât gonna be pretty. Iâve done some bad things in my time. Iâve always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ainât the devil. Iâm just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time.â












