Category: Amy Winehouse

Poor Amy Winehouse, according to a report out of England on Monday, Grammy winner Amy Winehouse may have already done irreparable harm to her brain with her admitted drug use.

The British singer, who is notorious for flaunting her substance abuse to the media, has reported already suffered two overdoses in the past year and the possibility of a third one has doctors worried it will be her last.

“The future is bleak, bleak, bleak,” a friend of Amy is quoted as telling the UK’s Sun newspaper, adding that the “Rehab” songstress allegedly smoked so much marijuana and hashish during a recent 36-hour period that she went into convulsions.

This news comes on the heels of the more legal trouble for Amy, who could possibly be sued after failing to show up at a concert performance in Paris. She had been scheduled to headline the Rock En Seine festival on Friday, and according to the show’s promoters, they were notified only two hours before her slated start time that she would not perform.

A waxwork of Amy Winehouse was unveiled by her parents, the petite figure towering almost 6ft tall in killer heels and sporting a huge beehive.

Mitch and Janis Winehouse launched the Madame Tussauds work in the Music Zone of the venue popular with tourists.

The model of the Grammy Award-winning Back to Black singer wore the same outfit that her real-life inspiration wore to the Brits - a thigh-skimming mini dress teamed with black high heels and huge red hooped earrings.

Madame Tussauds said it was the first time the London attraction had immortalised the vocalist.

The 3ins beehive and 5ins heels made the figure, complete with signature black eyeliner, just under 6ft tall.

The singer’s parents, who were at the venue with other family members, were full of praise for the waxwork, which joins other A-list names such as Madonna and Justin Timberlake.

Mitch said he was “stunned” at the “incredible” likeness to his daughter. He said his daughter was in the middle of working at the moment but would go to see the waxwork in the next week or two, when she would be “as blown away as we are”.

He thanked Madame Tussauds for “rising above the general hype, the bad publicity about Amy.

“This is the reward for her musical achievements and her talent.”

The figure captures Winehouse frozen in full song, complete with her tattoos - from the winged ankh on her back to lightning bolt, horseshoe, song bird, pin-up girls and “Blake’s pocket” above her left breast.

Photo credit: AP Photo

Amy Winehouse sipped from a glass of red wine and looked a bit unsteady on her feet as she appeared in front of a large audience at the Rock in Rio music festival southeast of Madrid on Friday, according to AP via Yahoo News

Then, as tens of thousands cheered, she threw off a pair of high stiletto heels in favor of white moccasins, donned a white electric guitar and settled into an intense rendition of some of her best known songs, including “Rehab.”

Winehouse delivered a strong vocal performance accompanied by her octet plus two male backing vocalists.

There was no hint of the controversy that saw the Grammy-winning singer scuffle with a fan at the Glastonbury festival in Britain and show up an hour late looking the worse for wear last May in Portugal.

Last month, her father said she developed emphysema from smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine, although her spokeswoman has said Winehouse only has pre-emphysema symptoms.

Amy Winehouse has been put under 24-hour supervision after she confessed to taking drugs while in rehab, according to source.

In a dramatic interview, she admitted that she took heroin while undergoing treatment for her drug abuse.

The troubled singer - who was recently diagnosed with emphysema after she collapsed - told Rolling Stones Magazine of her wild ways.

She said: ‘I’ve never been to rehab - I mean, done it properly. I’m young, and I’m in love, and I get my nuts off sometimes.’

‘To be honest, my husband’s away, I’m bored, I’m young. I felt like there was nothing to live for. It’s just been a low ebb.’

Amy’s label has now insisted on 24-hour watch over her in order to help the singer get her life back in order.

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Amy Winehouse is still Amy Winehouse, no matter how upset, ill or sad she may feel and she proved this once more over the weekend, during the Glastonbury Festival in England, when she unremorsefully punched a fan, apparently in self-defence.

The 24-year-old singer performed several of her hits in front of some 80,000 fans at the Glastonbury Festival, managed to mention her incarcerated husband once more (to some fans’ discontent) and was not afraid to throw a punch at a festivalgoer who reportedly tried to grab her.

Winehouse shared her deep love for her husband of more than 1 year, Blake Fielder-Civil, who has been imprisoned for the better half of their marriage, telling the audience “my husband is out of jail in two weeks.”

The frail songstress later climbed down to the pit in front of the stage in order to meet and greet fans and was at the center of a small and as-of-yet mysterious scuffle.

Onlookers said a fan tried to grab her, to which Winehouse promptly responded by throwing a punch.