14 DAY TRIAL // Contrary to reports in the media, at the time of her death, Amy Winehouse was not heartbroken because her boyfriend Reg Traviss had dumped her. In his first statement since the tragedy, Reg opens up: “I have lost my darling.”
While toxicology results are the only ones that can shed light on the singer’s cause of death, there is a lot of speculation about how a “heartbroken” Amy “drank herself to death” on Saturday.
That was not the case, Traviss, the filmmaker who had been dating the troubled star for two years, says in a statement cited by The Sun.
In fact, just hours before Amy was found dead in her London apartment, she was picking clothes to attend a friend’s wedding on Sunday.
Moreover, she’d never been healthier, more upbeat and cleaner than she was when the tragedy occurred, Traviss says in the statement.
“I can’t describe what I am going through. I want to thank all those who are mourning the loss of Amy - such a beautiful, brilliant person and my dear love,” Traviss says.
He’s referring to the thousands who came to her Camden apartment to lay a little something on the sidewalk as a tribute to the young singer.
“The last three days have been hell. We have suffered a terrible untimely loss and want peace now. I have lost my darling who I loved very much,” Traviss goes on to say.
As for reports that, late on Friday, Winehouse stepped out and bought herself a cocktail of heavy drugs, which she later combined with booze, they are not true, Reg insists.
In fact, Amy had shown no signs of relapse when he saw her just hours before her death.
“She has been full of life and so upbeat recently, exercising everyday and doing yoga. This terrible thing that happened is like an accident,” he says.
Amy Winehouse was just 27. Her body will be cremated today, in a ceremony to which only family members and close friends will have access, her family announced in a statement.