Sharon Osbourne has admitted that she terrified of dying due to Alzheimer's like her father.
The former 'X Factor' judge, 62, who recently battled cancer, came across a new challenge after a DNA test revealed that she carries two of the four genes responsible for the disease, which if develops makes a person completely powerless, the Mirror reported.
She said that she her husband Ozzy Osbourne had gotten the tests done at a university in England, the results of which took 3 months to come back.
She added that she had first-hand knowledge of what it could do to a person as her music mogul father Don Arden had it before he died in 2007 aged 81, calling it the most "soul-destroying disease.
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