14 DAY TRIAL // The autopsy on Amy Winehouse has offered no indication as to the cause of death, save to confirm that there was no foul play, it has been announced. Toxicology results will indicate whether her untimely passing was drug-related or not.
The British singer was found dead in her London apartment Saturday afternoon, after telling her bodyguard she wanted to take a nap.
When he went in to wake her up, she was dead, as we also reported the other day. Her rep has confirmed that she died in her sleep, all alone in her bed.
While speculation that she might have OD’ed continues to pick up speed, the autopsy can’t, for now, do anything to dispel rumors of this kind.
“It did not establish a formal cause of death and we await the results of further toxicology tests,” Scotland Yard says in a statement to CNN.
The autopsy was performed at the St. Pancras Mortuary. More details of Amy’s death will be provided with the toxicology results, which usually take a few weeks to complete.
“Inquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. [It] is being treated as unexplained and there have been no arrests in connection with the incident,” Scotland Yard says in a separate statement.
It has also urged the press and fans not to assume that Winehouse had died of a drug overdose only because she’s known to have been addicted to heavy drugs while alive.
Reports online say that the singer had been clean of drugs for some time but that she was still struggling to cope with her alcohol addiction.
Since she’s broken up from her boyfriend film director Reg Traviss, she’d been drinking seriously again and would sometimes have seizures.
Some British media outlets do not hesitate to say Amy “drank herself to death,” while others believe she died from a combination of a “bad pill” and alcohol.
Until toxicology results aren’t in, no one can know for sure. Amy Winehouse will be buried today, in a very small ceremony that only family will attend.