AUDIO – HELP, I NEED SOMEBODY –
Mar. 18, 2026 – “We were in some major city in New Zealand, and I’d been out in the morning, got p**ed and got beaten up in the town centre and came back by police. “I was at the airport, so I had cuts and bruises all over me. I was drinking in the bar, and Jack came and sat next to me.
“He basically said, ‘I see what you’re doing, and I know you’ve got a problem, Matt.’” Even when Matt insisted “everything’s okay,” Jack offered him a spot in a Los Angeles rehab centre.
At the time, Matt rejected the offer, feeling annoyed. “And he just sat with me and let me say all that b*****t to him,” he said on the On The Mend podcast.
“He went ‘look I’ve talked to the guy, there’s a place for you. You can be in there tomorrow and it’s going to be all right.’ And I was like ‘no mate, no, you’re off your head see you later.’” Matt admitted he didn’t act on the offer immediately, boarding a plane back to London instead.
“And then three weeks later I checked myself into rehab. So, he was on the money. It was an amazing thing he did.”
Jack, 40, the son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, battled alcoholism and drug addiction as a teenager, entering rehab at just 17.
