Ozzy offers sympathy to Winehouse

Ozzy Osbourne has claimed that Amy Winehouse will have a "very sad" road ahead in her battle against drugs.

The veteran rocker said that he had gone through similar troubles during his early career and argued that rehab wasn't going to be a "miracle cure" for the singer.

He told The Sun: "It is sad because that road that she is on is very, very sad. It took me a long time to get rid of my demons.

"Everyone takes this thing of rehab as a miracle cure, but it’s hard."

Osbourne, who is presenting this year's Brit Awards, revealed that Winehouse and Paul McCartney will be the only two artists that he knows at the ceremony.

Talking about McCartney, Osbourne said: "Our paths used to cross all the time. We had the same sound engineers. The Beatles are why I got into music in the first place.

"He is a really nice guy. This business has run and run, and he’s never been impolite to me. He’s always nice."