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Amy Winehouse’s Parents Talk About Her… Again

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 01:06 PM PDT

Amy Winehouse can be described in lots of different ways - unique, talented, addicted, troublesome - you name it, she probably is it. And it’s this that makes her so interesting and so newsworthy. If she was just an ordinary, everyday female singer without those huge negatives of hers on display then she’d be pretty damn boring.

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I have maybe spoken about Amy Winehouse too much in the past. I admit that. But it was only because I knew people were interested by the sheer amount of traffic that headed towards the articles I wrote about her. There are a couple of people who speak about Winehouse even more than I do, and that is her parents. Her dad in particular seems to love having been thrust into the limelight because of his daughter.

Both Amy’s parents are participating in a forthcoming documentary about her, and ITV News has reported on some of what the pair say about their daughter during it. Both quotes are via Digital Spy because the ITV News Web site is a bit rubbish.

Winehouse’s mum, Janis, speaks about her substance abuse and the battle to save her:

“The need to rescue her is enormous. I just want her to be okay and I would do whatever it took to make that right.”

“Amy is in denial all the time. She probably feels trapped, her body is trapping her. But I know with addiction you do not have the choice because the substance itself directs you.”

“I want to say to her: ‘Amy, what are you doing? Don’t you know what you’re doing?’ But she by then has got herself on to it to help her get through and I understand that.”

Winehouse’s dad, Mitch, speaks about her and Blake Fielder Civil’s relationship and the prospect of them getting back together:

“The option of them being together is too horrible to contemplate. They are going to get divorced and who knows what’s going to happen down the line.”

“Amy and Blake have decided that they want to get on with their lives separately, and if they get back together again in the future and they’re both clean and they still love each other, that’s up to them.”

“I need my daughter to be a whole person again. I tried it all - I said, Amy you’ve got to do this, you’ve got to go to this doctor, you’ve got to do this, you’ve got to do that, you’re killing me, you’re killing your mum. None of it worked.”

I appreciate the difficult position Mitch and Janis Winehouse find themselves in, but I do have to wonder whether it’s really the best thing for Amy that they talk about her to the press at every given opportunity. Asked for a statement or quote on Winehouse, both will usually comply, regardless of whether it’s about Blake, her drug addiction, drinking, her attempts at suicide, spells in hospital, etc, etc.

I feel the press, and blogs such as Brit Music Scene, have laid off Winehouse for a while now, ever since she holed herself up in St. Lucia in a clear attempt at getting away from it all. But are her parents affording her the same space and time to work things out? Maybe. But they’ll then be filmed or taped talking about her to a filmmaker, TV crew, or newspaper anyway. Which surely can’t be helping.

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