Posted on 01/07/2010 1:07:31 PM PST by BenLurkin
Amy Winehouse has given up the drugs, but she's replaced them with a shopping addiction. The troubled singer -- who has reportedly rekindled her romance with ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil -- has delighted her family by finally getting clean but is still causing them concern by obsessively indulging in her new hobbies, which also include exercise.
Her father Mitch Winehouse revealed: “Amy quit the drugs in her own way. In August 2008 she said to me, ‘Dad, I don’t want to do this any more.’ And she hasn’t. I’m more proud of her for that than her music -- she’s done it all by herself. But she’s not out of the woods yet."
He continued, “She’s a recovering addict and other problems have developed. Shopping is a problem -- she’ll go into Agent Provocateur and spend £3,000 (about $4,800) on underwear in one go. She works out for three to four hours a day in the gym.”
Mitch also admitted he is worried about Amy’s alcohol consumption, but doesn’t think he can get her to cut down. He added to Closer magazine: “Amy’s still drinking. Not to excess, but she drinks perhaps more than she should. The ideal situation is that she steers clear of alcohol, but she’s 26 and she wants to be with people and have a drink.”
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Trading one addiction for another. Alcohol is worse and shopping aint great either.
She is a terrible mess now.
This touching live performance was only 3 years ago - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVMTshWbtpo
She was a terrible mess then.
This is good to know. Now I can plan the rest of my day.
Well, here’s something to “cleanse the palate” — Valerie Masterson in The Mikado http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcNtTm5XEfY
Alcohol is one of the few drugs that is so terrific in effect that withdrawal can kill. She’s not clean if she’s drinking too much.
Yes, I meant to put it in breaking news.
Alcohol ...withdrawal can kill
Never heard that before.
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http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/166032-overview
It ain’t the shopping or even the exercise that is going to kill Amy. Cirrhosis of the liver is a nasty way to go. You don’t get clean and sober by drinking everyday
“Never heard that before.”
It’s the DT’s, it can vary from hallucinations (thus the jokes about seeing pink elephants) to seizures or in the worst case death.
It’s worse than heroine detox.
I wonder if this is widely known. In ALL my years, never heard it. Seems like Amy’s father may? not know - otherwise he wouldn’t be so optimistic. Someone forwarded a link to me - I need to get informed. I don’t drink but have heard about DT’s - thought that was about drugs and only for a day or two. Seizures or death? Just WOW!
Thanks. On my way to get educated!
Shoot, I had her in a Dead Pool.
Yep.
Wish I could wrap my arms around her and protect her from the world.
But life doesn’t work like that.
Found versions of “Teach Me Tonight” and “All My Loving” from back then too. Just amazing.
To those who mock her, I mocked her too. Then I listened.
Amy Winehouse is the opposite of Mae West: When she’s GOOD, she’s very, very good.
I’m not buyin’ this...if you go to the story on the link, she’s sitting there grinning for the camera with a cig in her hand.
She’s gotten clean and embracing a healthy lifestyle but still boozing and sucking tobacco?
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