United Kingdom, Oct. 3 -- Ozzy Osbourne got addicted to "posh" apples before he died.

The Paranoid hitmaker - who died in July aged 76 - was thankful to have "finally" got his addictions to drugs and alcohol under control in the later part of his life, but admitted he was so "hooked" on a particular variety of the fruit, he hired a "special guy" to go shopping for them and at one point was eating 12 in one night.

his upcoming posthumous autobiography, Last Rites, Ozzy - who suffered from Parkinson's disease and other health issues - wrote in an extract shared by The Times newspaper: "The one major blessing these days is that my addictions are finally under control. I've got so many doctors and nurses hovering over me at all times, there...