Amy Winehouse Loves an Idiot
Okay, so I heard about this first from The Junky’s Wife but I had to talk about it here because, well, I heart Amy Winehouse and let’s just say that there’s a lot about her life—as far as the media describes her—that I can identify with. And this latest little bit, just makes me shake my head.
As if it isn’t hard enough to be an addict, even harder to also be in love with an addict, how sad is it when the addict you’re in love with is an idiot as well. It seems that Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy Winehouse’s husband is locked up at Pentonville prison in London. If you don’t know, it’s kind of hard to maintain a habit while you’re inside—hard but not impossible. Making money, on the other hand, is a bit more difficult. Fielder-Civil has overcome this issue of lack of income by selling his wife—or signed pictures of her, anyway. Yup, the word on the grapevine is that he’s trading signed copies of her picture for heroin, pictures that the recipients are hoping to hock on eBay, I guess. Hey, if you can’t be with the one you love, exploit the one you’re with.
Addicts are nothing if not resourceful, I guess. However, the Melbourne Herald-Sun reports that the couple isn’t handling the split so well: he’s mad that she isn’t making it to visits, on time or at all, in some cases. Conflicting accounts say that he may ban her from visits due to her cocaine use. Somehow, I don’t see a junky passing judgment on using behavior, but you never know. Supposedly, he’s told her “not to bother” visiting again.
And Winehouse, well, she’s strung out. According to Melbourne’s Herald Sun a source at Britain’s The Sun says that “Amy’s in an awful state again - she’s clearly on drugs. Many of us think full-time residential rehab is the only option but she won’t go back.
“She was smoking cannabis and drinking heavily as soon as she left rehab. That has now increased. Everyone who has seen her in the last week or so has been really disturbed by the state she’s in. She’s getting back to her worst.”
Ironically, or maybe not so ironically, one of Winehouse’s biggest singles off her Back to Black album is a song called “Rehab,” in which she states emphatically that “They’re trying to make me go to rehab/ I said, ‘No, no, no.’” Winehouse has reportedly been to rehab a few times but stayed only briefly before returning to her old lifestyle.
Who knows what’s true and what isn’t. Many watch the progression of Amy Winehouse’s disease as avidly as they follow the Grammy winner’s career. She’s 24 years old with an amazing voice and an incredible musical sensibility, with a number of YouTube.com videos attesting to her addiction issues. If anything, it’s yet another example of how all the success, beauty, fame and money can’t solve a thing if you suffer from addiction.
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