Way too many posts are inappropriately praising or damning this woman. She was a talented singer who was an addict. Nothing more, nothing less. She had a great voice but made a bunch of horrible choices in life that led her to and kept her in a life of bad behavior. At a certain point, she became hooked and was unable to stop just like any other addict.
If you peal away the moralizing, you see the ugly story of what happens when you chose a life of drugs. No matter how talented you are, you end up in a tortured, miserable existence.
I just wonder why nobody seems to criticize the country music fans who revere Hank Williams, Sr? He and Amy both went down that same path.