She is so scary and ugly. And her music sucks. :)

+ she misses loads of gigs coz she's 'exhausted'. She lets her fans down and heads off to the pub.

^ So she could be described as the female Pete Doherty??:rolleyes:

Oh she would have come to pinkpop too..but she didnt came..too bad :dance:

Amy is in rehab - but can anyone save her from self-destruction?

 

By Kathryn Knight - More by this author » Last updated at 22:57pm on 10th August 2007 Comments

Fans have watched as the singer's weight has dropped off

 

There was no mistaking the anxiety in the voices of the group huddled round the table in the North London restaurant. In agitated whispers, some were almost in tears as they discussed the plight of their friend. "She needs to get help. We have to keep trying until she does," said one. "I've never seen her this bad," said another.

 

It perhaps comes as little surprise to learn that the subject of this intense concern was the singer Amy Winehouse.

 

Arriving at the restaurant earlier that evening, she had quickly downed a bottle of champagne with side shots of vodka while refusing her friends' suggestions on what to eat.

 

An hour later she fled, leaving her worried contemporaries - some of whom have known her for many years - to ruminate on what more, if anything, they could do to help a woman in the grip of self-destruction.

 

Finally, it would appear that their efforts have not been in vain. Yesterday, less than a month after that torrid evening, the 23-year-old singer reluctantly checked into The Priory rehab centre as family and friends admitted that her relentless drink-and-drugs lifestyle had pushed her to the brink. Her father Mitch and mother Janis, who separated when she was nine, are understood to be with her.

 

One insider, who saw the singer arrive at the clinic in Roehampton, South West London, said: "She looked in a terrible state. She could barely walk. There were about six people with her, including one who looked like a minder."

Her admission to the clinic came only 24 hours after the painfully thin singer had been taken to hospital, her record company insisting that she was suffering from "severe exhaustion".

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Amy's figure is concerning her friends

 

 

Other reports suggested that Winehouse had been rushed to Casualty following a three-day bender - downing spirits and taking ecstasy, cocaine and the horse tranquilliser ketamine. Her treatment required an emergency adrenaline shot and a stomach pump.

 

Although she was discharged a few hours later - leaving by the back door to return to her North London home - the frank admission by those around her that she could die if she doesn't get help is a wake-up call for the talented singer, now famed almost as much for her wild-child antics as her extraordinary voice.

 

Admissions about drug use, disturbing weight loss and rumours of self-harm, coupled with a series of cancelled gigs and increasingly erratic performances in recent months have fuelled concerns that one of Britain's brightest young talents is on a dangerous downward spiral - and one that, seemingly, she has only just acknowledged.

 

Amy's worried father-in-law, retired businessman Lance Fielder, 66, said: "It was brought on by all her excesses. Yes, work is one of them, but there's the drink and drugs, too. She's got to get a grip before it's too late."

 

This week, the Mail learned from music industry insiders that unless she went into rehab, the singer faced a private showdown with her label, Island Records, over what it considers her "excessive" lifestyle.

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Amy with husband Blake Fielder-Civil in Miami in May

 

 

Already, nursing staff at London's University College Hospital, where the star was admitted this week, had issued Winehouse with strict detox instructions, making it clear they would like her to give up alcohol and eschew the rigorous two-hour workout sessions in which she likes to participate each day at the gym near her home.

 

"She'd been told to stop that and concentrate on building up her strength," one friend explains. "More than anything else, she'd been told to cut down on toxins - no alcohol, or anything else for that matter."

This is likely to be easier said than done. In the past Winehouse has made no secret of her use of marijuana and cocaine, nor her enjoyment of prodigious amounts of alcohol - not to mention its often unedifying effects.

 

As she recently proclaimed: "I'm either a really good drunk or an out and out s**t - a horrible, violent, abusive, emotional drunk."

Together with her trademark towering beehive, thick eyeliner and tattoo-adorned arms, such admissions have lent her image an edge of rakish glamour which has, no doubt, helped to boost her record sales almost as much as her distinctive smoky voice.

 

How ironic that her collapse came in a week when, by rights, she should be basking in the glory of her creative success. With her second album riding high in both the British and American charts, Winehouse learned on Wednesday that she had garnered three coveted MTV award nominations.

 

Nonetheless, after the events which unfolded in the small hours of Wednesday morning, record industry insiders, as well as those close to Winehouse, are asking whether matters have gone too far.

 

Accompanied to hospital by her husband of two months, Blake Fielder-Civil, and a female friend, Winehouse, according to onlookers, could barely stand and was rushed through Casualty to a treatment room by concerned nursing staff.

 

Only after invasive treatment and careful monitoring for several hours was she allowed to leave, cutting a painfully thin and pale figure as she was whisked home in a taxi.

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The trademark beehive never changes

 

 

In recent months the singer has repeatedly looked like an increasingly dismal, slightly forlorn figure - an image assisted by her dramatic weight loss. Once a rounded size 12, her weight has plummeted to what is thought to be between a dress size 4-6.

 

"Everyone is worried about her weight loss," one friend told the Mail. "She says she had not intended to get so thin but seems adamant she doesn't want to put weight back on either.

 

"She thinks she looks fine as she is. The point about Amy is that you absolutely cannot tell her what to do. It usually succeeds in making her do the opposite."

 

Her parents, certainly, appear to have found this out all too early on. Born in Southgate, North London, in September 1983 into a middle-class Jewish family, even as a teenager the young Winehouse was a determined rebel, acquiring the first of her many tattoos aged just 15.

 

"My parents pretty much realised I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it really," she once said.

Her determined individualism made it hard for her to settle at school, and although she won a scholarship to the Sylvia Young Theatre School aged 12, she was expelled a year later for not applying herself.

 

"Amy was a unique and amazing individual but she was also naughty," the proprietor Sylvia Young recalls. "She believed rules were there to be broken. She was in her own world and years ahead of her age.

 

"I was a big fan of hers and desperate for her to stay here because she was a breath of fresh air in the school. She revelled in being a non-conformist but she was an enigma."

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Amy was named best British Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards in February

 

 

After being sent to another private school in North London, Winehouse landed a record deal with EMI aged 18, releasing her first album, Frank, to critical acclaim. Since then, few would argue with her reputation as one of Britain's most unusual singing talents - a reputation matched only by her appetite for partying.

 

Some friends hoped the singer's marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil, a music industry runner, might bring stability. They had dated for some time two years ago, but picked up the threads of their romance more seriously at the turn of this year, before marrying in secret in a £165 ceremony in Miami in May.

It was a decision that apparently left her mother less than impressed, although her father, to whom she remains close, was eager to emphasise his support for the couple.

 

"He's been very good to her and I was very happy to welcome him into the family," he said. "Amy loves him and that's what's important. I've never seen her as happy as she is at the moment."

Some of Amy's friends beg to differ about Blake's supposed positive influence. "We hoped the pair would calm down after getting married but the problems are as bad as ever for both of them," one said. "They like to talk about how they are this nice cosy couple, but they both egg each other on with their partying."

 

Any "positive" effects of the recent nuptials were not in evidence two weeks ago when Winehouse performed - some might say the word is not entirely appropriate to describe what actually took place - at Cornwall's Eden Project.

Apparently in tears while on stage, Winehouse could be seen hitting herself on the head with a microphone in frustration when she forgot the words to her songs, littering her performance with swear words.

 

As one of the concert-goers, Melinda Trevaskis, 26, from St Austell, recalls: "The gig became absolutely awful. Members of her entourage were coming on to the stage, worried she couldn't go on, and she would just shout: 'F*** of!' at them.

 

"It was embarrassing, and everyone in the crowd just felt sorry for her really."

She gave a similarly unnerving performance at Glastonbury in June. Mail writer Lauren Booth said: "Amy was staggering around the stage in an awful state. She was very thin and slurred nonsense at no one in particular.

"It was the only performance that I have ever seen at the festival that has received aggressive heckling from the crowd. I just felt very sorry for her."

Prior to the Eden concert fiasco, Winehouse had cancelled a series of other gigs - including ones in Liverpool, at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire and Scotland's T in the Park Festival.

Exhaustion was again cited, although in the case of the Liverpool gig matters were not helped by Winehouse being seen drinking in her local pub, the Hawley Arms in Camden, around the time she should have been trotting on stage.

 

Such antics have occurred with such regularity that the celebrity magazine Heat has taken to running a regular feature called "Where's Wino?".

 

After the events of this week, serious question marks now hang over her future performances. Two concerts which were due to take place in Norway and Denmark over the weekend have been cancelled, while there is feverish speculation over the future of a number of other concerts and festivals at which Winehouse was scheduled to appear in both Europe and America in the coming months.

 

It is ironic that recently, Ms Winehouse has talked of scaling down her work commitments in the New Year. There has even been talk of starting a family with her husband.

 

"She said her dad would help her out looking after the baby as she wouldn't want to give up her music. She has openly said she is broody," one friend reports.

 

One might think a baby is the very last project that the unpredictable Ms Winehouse should embrace. Surely she would be wiser to attend to her own health and well-being.

 

She may have made her disdain for rehab apparent in the lyrics of one of her most famous songs, but those close to her are convinced that, for now, it is the best place Amy Winehouse could possibly be.

Oh dear lord,what's happened to her? :o

They tried to make her go to rehab, but she said no no no.

They tried to make her go to rehab, but she said no no no.

 

Not this time, she didn't.;)

Not this time, she didn't.;)

 

Well, she was unconscious this time, so there was little she could do to protest.

Well, she was unconscious this time, so there was little she could do to protest.

 

When she gets out, I reckon she should do a duet with Potty Pete!!:P

When she gets out, I reckon she should do a duet with Potty Pete!!:P

 

Let's face it, a collaboration could be HUGE.

It wouldn't do them harm.

 

On the other hand, they might not live to see the next day... so perhaps they shouldn't.

*shivers* She gives me the creeps.

Yeah def looks freaky as hell! :freak:

i find her scary, she looks like a man on some pictures. i like her voice though.

i didn't want to believe the hype at first.

but then i got into her singles and got "Back To Black".

she really does have an amazing voice and i love her album.

it's kinda scary though to look at her.

she might be a missing member of the Addams family and she definitely needs to see a dentist. lol. she's great though, but obviously needs to get things sorted in her life.

Have you heard her 2003 debut album?

Amy Winehouse quits rehab again

 

Last updated at 12:21pm on 21st August 2007 Comments

Amy Winehouse has quit rehab again after a string of blazing rows with husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

The 23-year-old singer walked out of The Causeway clinic in Essex on Sunday night for the second time in a week.

She was seeking treatment following a drug overdose.

After furiously arguing with Fielder-Civil, the couple left the centre together - taking a taxi to an exclusive London hotel where they spent the night.

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"It (The Causeway) is supposed to be a peaceful backdrop to help people deal with their problems," a source told The Sun.

"But Amy and Blake kept rowing and spoiling the ambience.

"While Amy would be welcomed back with open arms, I'm not sure they'd say the same for Blake.

"Everyone is really worried that if they are let loose in London again they'll just go straight back to their old druggy habits," the source added.

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Amy and husband Blake Fielder-Civil returning to The Causeway last week after the singer quit the first time round

 

Her latest decision to quit the £10,000-a-week rehabilitation centre will be a bitter blow to her parents, Mitch and Janis, who blame Fielder-Civil for their daughter's cocaine and heroin addiction.

"This should be about Amy getting help - but too often it's all about Blake," the source said.

Winehouse collapsed after a three-day drug and drink binge on 8 August and was rushed into A&E.

At the time she described the overdose as "one of the most terrifying moments" of her life and finally agreed to enter rehab on 13 August following crisis talks with her parents and in-laws.

However within 48 hours, Winehouse had quit and was seen back in her local pub in north London's Camden area with her husband and in-laws.

The couple - Winehouse would only agree to seek help on the proviso Fielder-Civil was with her - returned to the centre on 16 August.

"He (Fielder-Civil) upset people in The Causeway with his behaviour. It was the same when she was in hospital.

"He really upset the staff and wasn't very welcome there either," the source revealed.

Fielder-Civil recently complained that he was fed-up with being "portrayed as the bad guy".

He added: "I love her so, so much. She's so precious to me, she's my wife and I want to take care of her."

Bloodied and bruised Amy Winehouse stands by husband who 'saved her life'

 

Last updated at 15:48pm on 24th August 2007 Comments (12)

Singer Amy Winehouse has defended her husband in a series of texts after the couple were involved in a violent row which left them both bloodied and bruised.

 

Amy denied Blake was the cause of the argument, 24 hours earlier after which the 23-year-old singer, who has spent most of the summer in and out of rehab for crack and heroin addiction, was seen with bandages covering her arm, blood-spattered shoes and a gashed knee.

And in a series of texts between the Rehab singer and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, she defended her husband who she claimed "saved my life".

Amy told Perez: "Blake is the best man in the world. We would never ever harm each other... I was cutting myself after he found me in our room about to do drugs with a call girl and rightly said I wasn't good enough for him. I lost it and he saved my life."

 

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The texts followed a very public bust-up in the early hours of yesterday when guests at the Sanderson hotel reported hearing the sound of clattering furniture and screaming coming from their £500-a-night suite.

In another text Amy defended husband Blake, and told Perez: "He did not and never has hurt me. He has such a hard time and he so supportive... He is an amazing man who saved my life again and got cut badly for his troubles.

"All he get's is horrible stories printed about him and he just keeps quiet, but this is too much."

She added: "I'll be alright. I need to fight my man's corner for him though."

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Walking wounded: Amy, with first aid dressings on her left arm, leaves the shop after buying cigarettes

 

 

The fight in the early hours of yesterday left 23-year-old Miss Winehouse with blood staining her pink ballet shoes and the knees of her jeans.

Purple bruises could be seen on the side of her neck and her knuckles were swollen.

But her 24-year-old husband appeared to have come off a lot worse - with cuts and scratches on both cheeks and around his neck.

 

Before the big fight, the singer had made a solo trip out of the hotel at 11pm, walking a few yards down the road to meet and hug a girl in her 20s before returning alone.

An eyewitness said it appeared the girl handed over some kind of small package to Miss Winehouse as they hugged.

The singer returned to her hotel room and within hours other guests complained of raised voices, clattering furniture and screaming.

 

Shortly afterwards, the concierge was called.

Miss Winehouse, who has a history of self-harming, had asked for medical assistance to patch up cuts on her arm.

 

At around 2.30am, said guests, the fight sounded like it had restarted - then Miss Winehouse was seen sprinting down the corridor to the lift, pursued by her badly bleeding husband.

 

One guest who got into the lift to reception at the same time said they started shouting at each other. "Amy was in floods of tears. This guy was screaming at her.

 

"She was cowering in the corner and I thought he was going to hit her. When the lift door opened, she took off across the lobby at a real pace.

 

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Enemies reunited: Amy and Blake walk back to their hotel

 

"He was chasing after her and was about five paces behind by the time she got to the main hotel entrance."

 

The couple then dashed into the street.

An eyewitness said: "Just after 3am, Amy came sprinting out and down the road.

"She was in a real state of panic. Blake was running after her, but couldn't catch up.

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Amy and husband Blake appear together leaving their Soho hotel

 

 

"Amy was so hell-bent on getting away from him that she ran into the middle of the street and flagged down a random car that happened to be full of girls.

 

"She was saying, 'Quickly, I have to get in, I have to get away, please help me'.

"Her voice was breaking, you could tell she was scared.

 

"The car drove off at speed and ended up about a mile away at Charing Cross station. Amy got out and went into a 24-hour shop to buy cigarettes.

 

"She was looking completely out of her head. Blake ran after the car for a while. He spent the next half hour or so wandering around in a daze with blood over his face, looking in doorways for her, shouting her name out.

"Eventually, he got through to her on the mobile.

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Amy emerges with fresh make-up and new shoes with husband Blake as they go for an early morning stroll

 

By 4am today, the couple had clearly kissed and made up as they put on a public display of affection in Soho in the early hours of today.

 

They walked round the block, arm-in-arm, and stopped to look into the Cult Entertainment Megastore.

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This afternoon, Amy and Blake walk around Covent Garden together, with Amy still wearing the bloodstained jeans from the previous night

 

I got you babe: Blake grabs hold of Amy and plants a kiss on her cheek

 

 

The eyewitness said: "There were a lot of tears and shouting, but they calmed down and met up at around 4am and slowly walked back to the hotel arm-in-arm. They got back at 4.45am."

 

Miss Winehouse's father Mitch checked into the hotel and was expected to be joined by Blake's parents Giles and Georgette for crisis talks.

Earlier this month, before the pair checked into a rehab clinic in Essex, similar family crisis talks in Hampshire erupted into a bitter row.

 

Fresh-faced: Newly-famous Amy in 2003

Amy Winehouse and Blake are killing each other, says her mother-in-law

 

by SADIE NICHOLAS and HELEN WEATHERS - More by this author » Last updated at 23:15pm on 31st August 2007 Comments (5)

In a despairing, no-holds-barred interview, Amy Winehouse's mother-in-law says her son and the singer will be lucky to survive the year - and will NEVER quit drugs while they are together...

Every time the phone rings, Georgette Civil's stomach lurches with dread. Will this, she wonders, be the call saying that her son Blake and his wife Amy Winehouse are dead?

This is what she fully expects to happen some time soon, and who could blame Georgette for sounding melodramatic after the "nightmarish" events of the past three weeks?

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First, the troubled, award-winning singer was rushed to A & E by husband Blake Fielder-Civil in a state of collapse after a three-day drugs binge said to include heroin, ecstasy, cocaine and the horse tranquilliser ketamine.

Then the emergency "crisis" summit between the couple and their respective parents at a five-star hotel descended into farce when Amy's father, Mitch, attacked Georgette's husband, Giles, blaming Blake for his daughter's very public downfall.

Amy, 23, and Blake, 24, then fled to a London hotel, having quit rehab after just five days, to be photographed dazed and bloodied in Soho following a furious bust-up when Blake reportedly walked into their room to find Amy about to take heroin with a prostitute.

 

Amy with her mother-in-law Georgette Civil

 

Now, amid fears that her behaviour will alienate U.S. audiences, Amy may be dropped by her record label, Universal/Republic, which has told her that she's on her last warning, and has ordered her to "clean up or clear out" with an all-expenses-paid Caribbean holiday.

She and Blake are now on the island of St Lucia talking of their "recovery", which - if reports are to be believed - involves "cutting back" on drugs and alcohol rather than forgoing them.

Meanwhile, Georgette is in despair.

In an emotional BBC radio broadcast this week, she begged fans not to buy Amy's records and asked the music industry not to give the singer any more awards, to shock her and Blake into confronting their problems.

"All we can think about as we lie awake at night is will we be burying our son in the next few weeks?

"If he's alive for another year, I think we'll be very lucky," says hair salon owner Georgette, 42, in her first full newspaper interview.

"I'm so desperate to get Blake away from drugs that I'm even considering paying to have him kidnapped and taken to a safe house where we could get professional help for him.

"Blake and Amy are like two separate accidents waiting to happen. Their meeting simply exacerbated everything that was wrong in their lives to the verge of tragedy.

"Our greatest fear is that if one of them dies, the other will commit suicide, such is their love for one another.

"If Amy died, Blake's life wouldn't be worth living because he'd be vilified.

"He told me as much himself.

"He told me that if Amy died on a Monday he would be dead by Monday night."

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A tender moment for Amy and Blake on holiday in St Lucia this week

 

If Georgette, and her husband, primary school headteacher Giles, 42, Blake's stepfather - she was divorced from Blake's father, retired businessman Lance Fielder, some 20 years ago - had their way, the young couple would still be at the Causeway Centre in Essex, halfway through a six-week rehab stay.

But they are not, and Georgette believes both her son and Amy are in complete denial of their problems.

They cannot see, she says, how much danger they are in or how destructive their relationship is, based on an unhealthy codependency, obsessive love and a shared fondness for hard drugs and alcohol which has, apparently, deepened since their marriage in May.

She believes their only hope of survival is to part, arguing that they each bring out the very worst in the other, but concedes this is unlikely while they remain hopelessly in each other's thrall and under the influence of drugs.

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An emaciated-looking Amy on holiday in St Lucia

 

"Blake has texted me most days from St Lucia saying they are having a nice time," says Georgette, who lives in an immaculate double-fronted house in a pretty Nottinghamshire village with Giles and their two sons, aged 15 and 14.

Ever since Amy fell in love two years ago with Blake, a film industry runner and heavy drug user, the finger of suspicion for her increasingly erratic behaviour has pointed at him.

When the couple briefly split up last year, he inspired her best-selling No 1 album Back To Black, but their subsequent marriage has brought no stability.

Instead, Amy's self-harming has become more apparent, her emaciated frame ever more stick-like, her drug-taking more pronounced, her drinking more ferocious.

'Wino', in recent weeks, has been re-christened 'No Show', for her failure to turn up to scheduled concerts.

Despite criticism from Amy's father Mitch, Georgette is no apologist for her son.

In fact, she is the first to condemn his drug taking.

"I'd like to be able to say my son was wonderful until he met Mitch's daughter, and Mitch would like to be able to say that Amy was wonderful until she met my son, but neither would be true," says Georgette.

"She and Blake are two troubled souls who are as bad as one another.

"We like Amy, she's a talented and lovely woman, but she clearly has a lot of problems, as does our son.

"From what we understand she was dabbling in drugs and had an eating disorder long before she met Blake.

"We certainly don't blame her or Blake in isolation for what's happening - they are equally responsible for the situation they are in and they have to be equally responsible and determined to get out of it."

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After quitting rehab after just five days, Amy and Blake were photographed dazed and bloodied in London's Soho

 

The Civils first met Amy one Saturday evening last summer, when Blake brought her home to meet them.

They'd dated two years earlier, but had broken up when Blake went back to his girlfriend, Chloe, who worked for a magazine.

 

Amy last week with bandages covering her arm, blood-spattered shoes and a gashed knee

 

According to Georgette, Amy sent Blake an avalanche of text messages the whole time they were apart, convincing him of her love for him - so much so that he dumped Chloe.

Cynics have suggested that Blake, with no obvious income of his own, took up with Amy again just as she was becoming a major star, not to mention a rich one.

A bright grammar school boy with ambitions to become a journalist, he had dropped out of sixth form college and headed for the bright lights of London with a friend and started work in a hairdressing salon.

"Looking at him now, all dishevelled and unkempt, it's hard to believe that back then he wouldn't leave the house without showering, doing his hair and putting on aftershave," says Georgette ruefully.

Unknown to her, Blake - who did hairstyling on fashion shoots and also worked as a film runner - was being drawn increasingly into the drugs culture.

Indeed, some reports suggest he became a drug dealer, selling cocaine to young women on the London party circuit to finance his own habit.

One source, who claimed Blake had introduced Amy to hard drugs, told a newspaper: "He had all these girlie disciples under his spell and Amy was one of them.

"She was just another bird he could sleep with."

But Georgette refuses to accept this version of events, which absolves Amy of any responsibility for her own actions or her seeming determination, pre-dating Blake, to follow a path of self-mutilation.

"It was four years ago when we first suspected Blake was taking drugs.

"When he came home he was sniffing constantly, and when we visited him in London, he kept disappearing to the toilets in restaurants with his friends," says Georgette.

"We were horrified at the thought, and confronted him at once, and he didn't deny it.

"He told me: 'It's normal, mum, everyone takes a bit of cocaine.'

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing from my own son, but he was quite nonchalant about it.

"And the evidence of what he was saying was staring us in the face. He was more verbally aggressive, edgy and tense."

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Pre-Blake: Amy in 2003 when she was first fame with her debut album Frank

 

Desperate to lure their son away from London and the drugs culture, the Civils offered to buy Blake a house near them, but he declined. They simply hoped he would grow out of it, meet a nice girl and settle down.

"When we first met Amy, she was very friendly and talkative, but she and Blake were very clingy with one another in a way that went beyond just being tactile.

"There was something a bit desperate-about the way they wouldn't let one another go, even in our company," says Georgette.

"When they first came to see us, they stayed the night then went back to London the next morning and that was the last we saw of them together until April this year, so we assumed, wrongly, that the relationship couldn't have been that serious.

"When they visited again in April, Giles and I booked a table at a restaurant in Newark, but when Amy and Blake arrived, they were shockingly different.

"Both looked in desperate need of a shower. Blake was tired and edgy while Amy seemed dreadfully emaciated and docile.

"It was a shock and we didn't know what was going on.

"At the restaurant, the pair were going backwards and forwards to the toilets and we suspected they must be taking drugs.

"Back home, we confronted them, but they denied drug-taking and said they were simply exhausted.

"Giles and I made it very clear that we would not tolerate any drugs being brought into our house.

"Blake and Amy continued in their denials, but they were very erratic and emotional, sitting huddled at our kitchen table, virtually in tears at one point and yet unable to articulate why.

"We were very anxious about their physical and emotional state."

The following month, Amy and Blake married - seemingly on a whim - while on holiday in Miami, in a £60 ceremony, followed by burger and chips and a 48-hour lock-in at a hotel. No parents were present.

Georgette continues: "Blake called us and said: 'Mum, congratulate me, I'm married. Would you like to speak to my wife?'

"I spoke to Amy and they both sounded so happy. When they came home they e-mailed us photos of the day they got married, and of them speeding around Miami on a boat. But I can't pretend that it was what I had hoped for for my son."

Amy's divorced parents Mitch, a cab driver from Kent, and Janis, a pharmacist, were equally upset.

Janis, 52, has said: "I think they were probably both so out of it that when he said 'Let's do it', she said 'OK then'."

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Amy and Blake had dated two years before marrying, but broke up when he returned to his girlfriend, Chloe

 

Amy promised to throw a big family party to celebrate when they returned home, to appease their parents. This never happened. Instead, three weeks ago, Amy was taken to hospital by Blake at 1am after a drugs binge.

Georgette found out only when a friend read about it in the paper and called her.

"We spent all day trying to get hold of Blake, with no success, and the next day we had a call from Mitch to say she'd been in hospital and that the pair of them had a problem that we needed to address," recalls Georgette.

"We were frantic with worry and the next day we raced to the Four Seasons hotel in Hook, Hampshire, for a very hastily arranged emergency summit with Blake and Amy.

"Mitch, Amy's stepmother Jane and mother Janis were also there.

"We arrived on the Friday night and the others on Saturday morning.

"When we went out onto the hotel terrace to say good morning to Amy, Blake, Mitch and Janis, by the look of anger on Mitch's face we could see he was unhappy about something.

"He launched straight into a torrent of abuse at Giles, shouting that everything was Blake's fault, then he tried to grab him around the throat.

"I was looking on, horrified, while Amy was yelling at her dad to get off Giles. I don't know what prompted it, but I do know that we had done nothing to deserve it."

Today, Mitch Winehouse refuses to blame Blake publicly, saying that Amy is responsible for her own predicament, but sources say that in private Amy's family feel very bitter towards her new husband, feeling he has drawn her into a drug-fuelled world from which she cannot escape.

Was that the reason for the altercation?

Georgette recalls: "Amy apologised profusely for her dad's behaviour, and Mitch has since apologised unreservedly, but it's just not acceptable behaviour.

"We thought it was going to be a private meeting between two families worried sick about their children, but Amy's manager was there and four people claiming to be her friends. I'd call them hangers-on.

"We didn't ask for the tragedy of our son's drug addiction to be played out so publicly, but that is the beast we are dealing with because of Amy's fame and we are doing our best to deal with it.

"We are still coming to terms with the fact that our son is a drug addict. It is very hard to accept.

"At that hotel in Hook, I tried to talk to Blake privately, but every time I went outside for a cigarette with him, one of these "friends" of Amy would appear. My son said he felt he wasn't being allowed to speak.

"He told me he'd even been banned from seeing his wife in hospital by Mitch and these friends - when he was the one who'd taken her there and probably saved her life.

"Eventually, at around one in the morning we went to our room and Blake and Amy came with us. She ordered hot chocolate and cakes and when we pushed them for answers, they admitted they were recreational drug users but insisted they were in control.

"They admitted taking cocaine, and nothing else.

"But we have since learned they have taken crack and probably heroin, which is very hard for us, as parents, to come to terms with.

"We have never asked them outright if they use heroin because we are frightened of what the answer will be.

"Amy was insistent that it had all been blown out of proportion and was fed up of everyone interfering in their lives. It became clear to me that neither realised their drug use was the big problem it really was."

Under parental pressure, Amy and Blake agreed to enter the Causeway Clinic in Essex on the weekend of August 11 for rehab, but fled to London after just a few days.

Then came the photographs following their bust-up in the capital. Amy was pictured with a bruised neck, make-up smeared over her face, cuts on her arms and blood seeping through her satin ballet pumps, while Blake's face was a criss-cross of deep scratches.

Again, Blake was blamed after it was reported he chased Amy through the streets of Soho before she flagged down a car and was driven away by strangers.

Amy has since insisted the fight was all her fault and that Blake had once again saved her life.

Wiping away tears, she revealed just how troubled a diva she really is by saying: "I'm nothing without my husband. I love him so much sometimes it hurts. I owe him everything. Without him I would be nothing.

"I can't beat the drugs without him. He's my rock...I know I need help, but Blake is the only one who can help me. I don't want to lose him. I won't lose him.

"I feel disgusting and Blake's the only person who stops me feeling like this. I don't deserve him."

But the Civils believe - like Amy's family - that the couple would be better off apart.

Says Georgette: "Those photographs were incredibly distressing for us to see as Blake's parents. This wasn't the life we'd wished for him.

"Do I think Amy and Blake can ever be clean?

"I think Blake could be drug-free separately, but together they are just feeding off one another."

In a show of parental support, the Civils have decided to buy a second home close to them, so that at any time he wants, Blake - and Amy, too, if she chooses - can move away from London.

"Our greatest wish is for them to go to a proper clinic abroad and deal with their demons.

"If they came back clean, people would have so much admiration for them. It's up to them now to take responsibility," says Georgette.

"Blake may see this interview as an act of betrayal on my part, but I've done it because we love him.

"If it prompts him to channel any anger he feels into getting clean then it will have been well worth it, even if the price I pay is that he never speaks to me again.

"At least my son will be alive.

"For now we have to accept the harsh reality that there's nothing more we can do for them."

havent read all the above but the pics pretty gruesome.

yeah i've seen pics of her without all that crap on her head and her face - she looked much healthier and pretty back then.

Jesus, Mark. You really revel in this stuff don't you? :stunned:

Jesus, Mark. You really revel in this stuff don't you? :stunned:

 

I don't create the headlines, I merely post them.:rolleyes:

Who said you create them? ':rolleyes:'

What I said is that you obviously get much pleasure from the Sun 'newspaper' & people who have serious issues and need help.

Who said you create them? ':rolleyes:'

What I said is that you obviously get much pleasure from the Sun 'newspaper' & people who have serious issues and need help.

 

If you look closely, you'll see it's actually from the Mail.:rolleyes:

And by the way - they don't need help, they need to help themselves by cleaning up their acts.;)

The Mail, Sun, all the same tabloid crap really. :dozey:

 

I don't even know why i'm bothering to argue with you over it. All I was pointing out is that you so blatently LOVE IT, which is kind of sick, in my opinion.