Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of eating disorders, addiction, domestic violence, and self-harm.
Mitch Winehouse struck up a relationship with his colleague Jane shortly after his daughter was born.
“The children used to call Jane ‘Daddy’s work wife.’
It was difficult,” Mitch told theDaily Mailin 2008.
Maybe she could not articulate it in words, but she certainly did it with music."
They stopped doing it, but Amy never really stopped.
“Amy changed overnight after she met Blake.
Her personality became more distant.
And it seemed to me like that was down to the drugs.
When I met her she smoked weed but she thought the people who took class-A drugs were stupid.
She used to laugh at them,” he said.
Between 2008 and 2009, Winehouse performed on stage drunkenly, stumbling and forgetting words to lyrics.
“We thought she was going to pull through.
We thought she was going to beat it,” she said.
They had an on-again off-again relationship from 2005 after the pair met in a pub.
“She said can I try some.
Before his release, Fielder-Civil filed for divorce, and the pair split in 2009.
I’m talking about when I was nine.
What does that feel like?
‘Ow, that f***ing hurts.’
It’s probably the worst thing I’ve done.”
Her tour was canceled and her label released a vague statement about Winehouse suffering from exhaustion.
Because obviously the responsibility of the addiction lies with the person who’s struggling with the addiction.
… How many times I took her into rehabs, and she’d walk out the next day.
It’s very difficult."
It has been mayhem a couple of times and Amy had to do something."
Tragically, the day Winehouse died, there was the biggest media frenzy around her Camden apartment yet.
“It was like a film premiere out there,” he recalled.
Winehouse returned to rehab solo in January 2008 after a photo of the singer smoking crack went viral.
After it had been announced that Winehouse was in treatment, her father spoke with the BBC.
“Part of the problem is she doesn’t think she’s got a problem.
She thinks she can do what she does recreationally and get on with the rest of her life.
Unless she wants to do it of her own accord, it’s pointless,” he said.
Tragically, she would never return.
Dr. Romete had been treating Winehouse as an outpatient, as she explained in an inquest following her death.
The star attended the clinic the evening before she was found dead and admitted to having begun drinking again.
In response, Winehouse reportedly replied: “I don’t want to die.”
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