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The Truth About AmyAmy Winehouse's mother finally speaks out about the deep dark hole her daughter's been digging for herself lately |
By Monica Gaza, Entertainment News Editor
21st of August 2007, 09:53 GMT
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It's no secret to anyone that Amy Winehouse's life has taken a turn for the worse...or, if truth be told, has been going from bad to worse to overdose for quite a while now. Wonder how come that's the case? Well, don't we all... In fact, I have to admit that I'm pretty tired of talented people who (like to) waste their lives on drug overdoses and who put themselves in danger right in the brightest spotlight and serve as negative role models for all the rest of us out there. And I also have a certain degree of skepticism when it comes to parents giving the goods on their kids (remember someone called Britney Spears?) but this time, I somehow feel that Mrs. Winehouse needed a bit more than that for the public to stop blaming her for her daughter's behavior. And I feel we all understand Amy a bit more, which can't be that bad a thing, now, can it?
"For most of her life, I've been aware of needing to keep an eye on her" says Janice Winehouse. "She's reckless, very determined and if she wants to do something she will just do it. No one can stop her once she's made her mind up but she never thinks of the consequences". Well, that does sound like Amy, who's been refusing medical care to treat her drug and alcohol addiction for quite some time now. In fact, her big hit "Rehab" has a very ironic sound now, especially in view of Amy's overdose a couple of weeks ago which almost ended her life.
But it turns out Amy herself doesn't have a very optimistic view about her own life and apparently never had. "She has said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to survive that long'. It's almost as though she's created her own ending. She's on a path of self-mutilation, quite literally. What else are all the tattoos about? I hate them. They're horrible. It's like a sickness but she cannot see it" Amy's mother said.
Janice also talks about Amy's marriage to her husband, Blake, with whom she has had a two-year relationship prior to the marriage but who at one point left her to go back to one of her ex girlfriends. The two decided to marry only a short while after getting back together and only told the family days before it happened. "My feeling is, she wasn't aware of getting married" Janice says. "I think they were probably both so out of it that when he said, 'Let's do it', she said, "OK, then". The day before, she told a friend she was going to get married and the friend was really worried because there was no pre-nup, nothing. She also called her father and he begged her not to do it. I said, "Why now"? She just replied, "Well, the register office wasn't open the next day." I wasn't surprised. That's Amy. I've learned now not to expect too much".
There are plenty more things to be said about the whole situation, and even more unanswered questions that pop up as we read Janice's interview. Amy's estrangement from her family, her descent into drugs, booze and self-mutilation, the fact that her husband never seems to work and is always out on tour with her… I'm sure the only person who truly understands all this is Amy herself. But it's given us a clear enough picture to be able to say 'Girl, get a hold of yourself and move on". And like her mother, who's been battling multiple sclerosis for years with the same stubbornness that's become trademark of Amy herself, we all hope that Amy is strong enough to do it.
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