Jack Osbourne talks MS diagnosis: "There has to be a solution to this"

Jack Osbourne has said that he is determined to find a cure for multiple sclerosis (MS).

The former Osbournes star was diagnosed with the disease in June 2012, just two weeks after welcoming a daughter with wife Lisa Stelly.

Osbourne has been seeking treatment for MS for nearly a year now, and recently revealed to E! News that he is hopeful that a cure will be found during his lifetime.

"When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there," he explained.

The reality star continued: "I'm not saying I was trying to be the hero and wave the flag, but I was like, 'Why don't more people know about this?'... It's not a disease of age, a lot of people think it's for women in their 40s, most commonly, because that is the most common diagnosis, but it's not.

"The youngest diagnosis has been of a 3-year-old. So this is a disease that affects everyone differently, much like a fingerprint."

He added of using social media to connect with fellow MS sufferers: "I do it for the global cause of like, 'There has to be a solution to this'."

Osbourne famously wed his longtime love Stelly in Hawaii a few months after receiving his diagnosis.

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Jack Osbourne talks MS diagnosis: "There has to be a solution to this"