Winehouse cancels V Festival Gig
Singer Amy Winehouse has pulled out of this weekend's V Festival after being taken to hospital last week.
A spokesperson said Winehouse - who has denied reports of drug abuse - was taking time to address "health issues".
Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were followed by 30 photographers on Thursday night as they visited three pubs in Camden, London.
Fielder-Civil told reporters the couple would be returning to a rehabilitation clinic after their night out.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, he said: "We only came back to get a guitar, but of course in the paper that's interpreted that me and Amy are both so weak we left after three days."
When Winehouse was asked if reports of drug abuse were true, she said: "I wouldn't say so, no."
The singer, who has noticeably lost a lot of weight recently, added: "I'm fine, I've put on half a stone and I'm fine."
Winehouse visited three different pubs - spending 10 minutes in each one - before returning to her nearby flat.
Before the couple were picked up by a waiting car, Fielder-Civil said recent newspaper reports that Winehouse was addicted to heroin and cocaine had been blown out of proportion.
"I wouldn't believe it no. I would say there are a few problems there, but certainly not the magnitude that my mum was falsely quoted as saying."
He added: "The main thing is that me and Amy are getting better. Don't worry, she's being looked after.
"We're going back to this retreat. She's determined to get well. It's not as bad as everyone thinks but she's fine, she's loved and looked after."
Winehouse had been due to play on the Channel 4 stage at Hylands Park in Chelmsford on Saturday and Weston Park, Staffordshire, on Sunday, alongside headline acts, The Foo Fighters and The Killers.
Festival director Simon Moran said: "We're very sorry to hear that Amy is unable to perform this weekend and wish her all the best.
"We hope that fans will not be too disappointed by the news and we would gladly welcome her to play V Festival 2008."
The Happy Mondays will take her place, moving their set to the Channel 4 stage from one of the side stages.
Earlier on this week Winehouse, who has been nominated for three prizes at next month's MTV Video Music Awards in the US, pulled out of two Rolling Stones gigs in Germany.
She is scheduled to tour Canada and the US next month before returning to Europe in October.
Fans urged to boycott Winehouse
Amy Winehouse's father-in-law has urged the singer's fans to boycott her music until she seeks treatment for what he called a drug addiction.
Speaking to BBC Radio Five Live, Giles Fielder-Civil said he was concerned that Winehouse and her husband, Blake, would die without medical help.
He said: "Perhaps it is time to stop buying records. It's a possibility, to send that message."
But the singer's father, Mitch, said a boycott would not aid her recovery.
'Rock bottom'
He contacted the Victoria Derbyshire show after he heard Winehouse's in-laws being interviewed.
"It won't send any message to Amy at all, unfortunately. If I thought it would, it would be a great idea," he said.
"The only way out of this is not sectioning them, not locking them up. At some point they are going to reach rock bottom."
Giles Fielder-Civil said he believed his son and daughter-in-law had been taking cocaine, crack cocaine and possibly heroin.
His wife, Georgette, said she feared for both Winehouse and Fielder-Civil if they continued to take drugs.
"I think they both need to get medical help before one of them, if not both of them, eventually will die," she said.
Suicide fear
Her husband added: "We're concerned that if one of them dies, the other will die.
"They're a very close couple and if one dies through a substance abuse, the other may commit suicide."
However, Mitch Winehouse said he had spoken to his daughter on Sunday and she sounded fine.
"We are not talking about people who are in imminent danger of death," he said.
Mr Fielder-Civil also said Winehouse should not be eligible to win awards for her music.
"This isn't a personal affront against her, but we shouldn't be condoning her addiction by a rewarding her with these particular awards," he said.
"I know it's for her music, and that's different, but we still need to send a message to the couple that what they're doing is not acceptable."
Winehouse is currently nominated for a Mercury Music Prize, an MTV Video Music Award and four Mobo awards for her 2006 album Back To Black.
Winehouse 'glad to be rid of crack'
Amy Winehouse is relieved to be free of crack cocaine, her brother has said.
The singer checked herself into the Capio Nightingale rehab clinic in London after a video appearing to show her smoking the drug was posted on the internet.
However, she left the facility temporarily to perform via satellite at Sunday night's Grammys, where she picked up five awards.
Alex Winehouse revealed that he had visited his sister just weeks before she entered rehab and was shocked by her condition, telling The Sun: "It was hard to take in that the barely communicative shell in front of us was my own flesh and blood."
He said he was proud of her decision to get help for her habit, saying: "Detox was tough, but she did it. She was as bright and vivacious as she had been before her demons took over."
Talking about Sunday's ceremony, he said: "It was without a doubt the greatest night our family has enjoyed in a long, long time. For the first time in God knows how long, my parents were truly happy, and Amy was too."
He added: "She didn't miss crack, she told me, and she was glad to be rid of it. Which was a nice thing to hear."
you try performing practically every day of the week, having to travel here there and everywhere, she's been in the US on a tour, her recent gigs were with the Rolling Stones in Germany and she's got some more to come in the UK, on top of that she's trying to sort out her drink/drug problems, so it goes with out saying she's going to have to cancel a few gigs.Quote: