Amy Winehouse: suspected overdose 'shocked and terrified me'

"I don't know how to explain what happened," she was quoted as saying today. "I can't remember what I looked like. I couldn't recognise myself. It was terrifying - I was terrified.

"I was so out of control," she was quoted as saying in the News of the World. "It just happened. It shocked me. I'm sorry - I just don't know what got in to me."

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Winehouse's father Mitch has compared his daughter to a concentration camp victim, according to a newspaper report.

He said: "She is skinny as anything and dehydrated and looks like she has just come from a concentration camp.

"She is barely eating. She is not sleeping. I try to get her to eat but that is easier said than done.

"I know that if she doesn't eat she is going to die. There is no reason for her to want to self-destruct like this.

His words come days after Amy reportedly checked herself into rehab following a suspected drugs overdose.

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The troubled singer was said to have been treated in hospital after collapsing on Wednesday.

She is seeking help at The Priory in Roehampton after her shocking drink and drugs lifestyle finally took its toll.

Amy was understood to be in a private wing of the hospital today, surrounded by her family and friends.

The News of the World has on the contrary claimed that she has not in fact been to rehab, however, and that she is hiding out in a five star hotel with her husband and both sets of parents.

A source told the newspaper: "They're still trying to find her a place. The doctors are with her and they're doing a whole load of tests.

"Then they are hoping to get her a place somewhere, and put her back on track."

The 23-year-old, famous for the line "They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no", has always maintained she would never seek professional help for her excessive boozing and reported drug taking.

But friends pleaded with her after the suspected overdose this week, saying, "you will die if you don't get help".

Amy's husband, Blake Fielder- Civil, and her parents Mitchell and Janis, who separated when she was nine, are understood to be with her and a security guard is posted outside, checking people as they go in and out.

It was claimed that Amy had been on a three-day drugs bender before her collapse.

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A friend claims: "She looked like a zombie — white as a sheet and trembling.

"And I'll never forget her eyes. They were dead, like a shark. Even Amy says she will be dead within one year."

The star began the bender on Monday after landing at Heathrow from a music festival in Chicago.

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She headed straight for the Robert Inn in Hounslow where she knocked back vodka with her husband.

Later that evening Amy and Fielder-Civil went onto a favourite haunt, the Hawley Arms in Camden.

The binge continued into Tuesday and at 1am on Wednesday Amy collapsed at the reception of London's University College Hospital.

Her record company said at the time that she was suffering from "nervous exhaustion".

A spokesman said: We've no further comment to make."