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Parents say Amy Winehouse needs 'to be rescued'
Updated 09:28am on 17 Jun 2009Amy Winehouse is constantly in denial and needs to be rescued, her mother said.
Janis Winehouse said she just wants her daughter to be okay and "would do whatever it took to make that right".
Her comments to interviewer Daphne Barak come as ITV News will show footage tonight of the troubled singer trying to play the drums while seemingly under the effect of alcohol as she battled her addiction in her private villa in St Lucia earlier this year.
"The need to rescue her is enormous," Mrs Winehouse said.
"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."
She went on: "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."
The 25-year-old Back to Black singer's father Mitch added: "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."
He said his daughter was on a drug replacement programme but drinking heavily.
"For the last six months there's been a remarkable recovery," he said.
"A gradual recovery, which is good. With slight backward steps - not drug backward steps, more drink backward steps if you follow my drift. I think that will be the pattern of recovery."
Mr Winehouse also blamed his daughter's estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil for fuelling her drug habit.
"The option of them being together is too horrible to contemplate," he said.
"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."
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What AGAIN?!!!
- Ali Sichilongo, London, 18/06/2009 11:32
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Cripes Mike V!
hope you haven't got any children or dont plan on having them??? You know what they say 'walk a mile in their shoes' and all that!
It is a fact of life that young people dabble in drugs when they are young, most are fortunate enough to be strong enough to turn their back on them but some are not, this is an illness - like smoking - its an addiction.
Do you smoke Mike V? If so you will expect me (a none smoker) to fund your lenghty hospital stays when you are older I take it??
And in the words of a ignorant fool - 'Let 'em suffer ... and if they die it's a direct consequence of their own acts of omissikon or commission ...'
- Janey C, inverness, 17/06/2009 15:23
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This girl has alot of money, fame, fortune and success.
Often the very gifted and talented creative geniuses of our time are 'quirky'. If Wino chooses to 'escape' lifes pressures by boozing, smoking, mainlining, inhaling and acting like a deranged animal, its her loss.
She doesnt know that she is hurting her parents and doesnt know what it feels like to worry about next months bills, our jobs our families, health and children.
Unfortunately, with drugs or alcohol, once you go down that road...getting out is not so easy. She is one of the most gifted artists of our generation and has a god given talent. Shes a great example to kids - for the wrong reason 'Just say no to drugs' and have her photo behind the wording.
The music industry and press cant get enough of her either, it sells magazines and newspapers and they should ban her performances until she sobers up.
Send her to India/China to do Yoga, meditate and work in the hills for one year with no distractions and a religious grand old man.. someone to guide her for those 12months - watch how she will be transformed.
Amy a message for you - we all experience bad relationships, move on honey and keep on writing the beautiful lyrics, we love you!
- Anon Angel, London, England, 17/06/2009 14:09
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No sympathy for druggies ... it's self-inflicted injury.
And no ... I DON'T subscribe to the psychobabble about social deprivation, pressure of the job and the rest.
Let 'em suffer ... and if they die it's a direct consequence of their own acts of omissikon or commission ...
miromike
- Mike V, London England, 17/06/2009 13:05
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Its both of Amy's parents who are in denial. Amy knows she is addicted to drugs and alcolhol - but her parents always say "shes fine, shes getting better". No she is not. Either take action or stop giving interviews full of lies.
- Julie, London, 17/06/2009 12:02
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