Overview
- Osbourne writes that after a vodka and painkiller binge in September 1989, he began choking Sharon before blacking out.
- He recalls waking on the floor of a cell at Amersham police station and being told he was booked for attempted murder.
- He was released on bail on the condition he attend rehabilitation, which he completed over six months.
- Sharon cut off contact for five months and later dropped the charges, a decision he addresses with a written apology and gratitude in the memoir.
- Published on October 7 as a posthumous release, Last Rites also chronicles his declining health and final‑years push to perform before his July 22 death at 76.