Amy Winehouse

[Bryan]

Troubled Amy Winehouse last night vowed to quit drugs - admitting she was "out of control" when she overdosed.

The 23-year-old singer spoke of the hell she's going through after a dramatic family meeting aimed at forcing her to curb her wild lifestyle.

Amy, who was taken to hospital after overdosing last week, said: "I never want to feel that way again. It was just crazy - one of the most terrifying moments of my life.

"I've scared myself this time. I was all over the place. I know things have got to change. I have to sort myself out." But the Rehab singer added: "I'm fine. I'll be back at work on Monday."

Amy spoke out after her parents and in-laws rallied round in a five-star hotel to try to make her see sense.

The Sunday Mirror can reveal she fled the meeting with husband Blake Fielder Civil after blazing public rows involving her, dad Mitch and Blake's father Giles.

Taxi driver Mitch almost came to blows with Giles as tensions rose over Blake's influence on painfully thin Amy.

She had been taken to London's University College Hospital at 1am on Wednesday and given a life-saving adrenaline injection after overdosing. Yesterday Mitch and Amy's mum Janice tried to force her into rehab - to Amy's fury.

The singer, who uses heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and marijuana, yelled that she was not going anywhere.


Amy Winehouse with family (pic:solentnews)

An onlooker at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hook, Hants, said: "They were talking and then all of a sudden it got really heated and Mitch went mad. He just couldn't take it any more. He told her that she's ruining everything - her career and more importantly her life. He told her to look at what she was doing to her friends and family.

"It got to the point where they were screaming at each other. Amy told him to butt out - she claimed to know what she was doing.

"Then at the end, Amy just pushed him out of the way. She kept shouting 'No' and 'Stop it', running back to her suite in floods of tears." Later, Amy's childhood friends Juliette and Jessica Ashby appeared. They had also spent the night at the hotel trying to make Amy see sense.

Finally Amy and Blake sped off in a limo, leaving everyone else behind. Earlier Mitch, who is Jewish, told the Sunday Mirror Amy looked like a concentration camp victim.

"She is skinny as anything and dehydrated and looks like she has just come from a concentration camp," he said. "She is barely eating. She is not sleeping. I try to get her to eat but that is easier said than done. I know that if she doesn't eat she will die."

Friends and family had hoped Amy would agree to see a psychiatrist and get counselling. She has a history of self-harm and is feared to be suicidal.

The singer's behaviour has become more erratic in recent weeks. She has failed to show up for concerts and has been on long drinking sessions near her home in Camden, North London.

Amy and Blake now have a drug dealer on permanent stand-by and have been indulging in three-day benders. The session that resulted in her overdose began the minute they landed at Heathrow after she had performed at a festival in Chicago.

Desperate to score, they arranged to meet the dealer at a pub two miles from the airport. Amy and Blake made regular visits to the pub toilets.

A source said: "They couldn't wait. They wanted drugs there and then."

Amy collapsed hours after being nominated for three gongs at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Source: Sunday Mirror

[Luna]

After a false alarm last week that she had checked in to a treatment facility, Amy Winehouse has finally entered rehab.

The Mirror is reporting that the Rehab singer flew to a treatment center in America this past weekend to deal with an addiction to heroin and cocaine.

Wino’s husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, is also entering rehab with her for his own addictions.

The last straw for Amy’s family was when her best friend, Juliette Ashby, caught her smoking heroine on Friday night, just days after her scary drug overdose.

Winehouse’s father, Mitch, got into a huge fight with Blake’s parents.

The twosome eventually agreed to get treatment. They have surrendered their cell phones and cut off all contact with the outside world.

Rehab rarely works the first time, but hopefully it will stick with Amy - or at least guide her in the right direction.

[Layne]

She's suffereing exhaustion apparantly, & although she's already cancelled 2 gigs she's still going to be at the V festival this weekend...apparantly Well i'll see this weekend won't i!?

[Bryan]

She's suffereing exhaustion apparantly, & although she's already cancelled 2 gigs she's still going to be at the V festival this weekend...apparantly Well i'll see this weekend won't i!?

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.

[Luna]

She's suffereing exhaustion apparantly, & although she's already cancelled 2 gigs she's still going to be at the V festival this weekend...apparantly Well i'll see this weekend won't i!?

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.

i think the point that Layne was trying to trying to make was the fact that her agent was refusing to admit she had a drug problem saying she was suffering from exhaustion only....she's a preformer without the drugs she should be able to preform no problem when her agent was making out that it was just her schedule that was the problem!!

[Layne]

She's suffereing exhaustion apparantly, & although she's already cancelled 2 gigs she's still going to be at the V festival this weekend...apparantly Well i'll see this weekend won't i!?

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.

i think the point that Layne was trying to trying to make was the fact that her agent was refusing to admit she had a drug problem saying she was suffering from exhaustion only....she's a preformer without the drugs she should be able to preform no problem when her agent was making out that it was just her schedule that was the problem!!

There are loads of performers out there that have been touring and have had more work load than Amy has, and they've been fine, if i'm honest i haven't heard of any of performer that has had to cancel a number of gigs due to exhaustion (there probably has but none that i know of) I think it was pretty obvious that Amy had/has a drug problem and the fact she pulled out of gigs and her agent blamed it on exhaustion - hence the apparantly. She probably is exhausted but that is probably down to a combination of drugs and a number of gigs. And although its not been said she won't be there, i highly doubt she will be at the V festival this weekend, especially if she has checked herself into Rehab. But i think that it is better for her to address her problem now, then for her to carry on performing and suffering the consequences.

[Bryan]

She's suffereing exhaustion apparantly, & although she's already cancelled 2 gigs she's still going to be at the V festival this weekend...apparantly Well i'll see this weekend won't i!?

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.

i think the point that Layne was trying to trying to make was the fact that her agent was refusing to admit she had a drug problem saying she was suffering from exhaustion only....she's a preformer without the drugs she should be able to preform no problem when her agent was making out that it was just her schedule that was the problem!!

There are loads of performers out there that have been touring and have had more work load than Amy has, and they've been fine, if i'm honest i haven't heard of any of performer that has had to cancel a number of gigs due to exhaustion (there probably has but none that i know of) I think it was pretty obvious that Amy had/has a drug problem and the fact she pulled out of gigs and her agent blamed it on exhaustion - hence the apparantly. She probably is exhausted but that is probably down to a combination of drugs and a number of gigs. And although its not been said she won't be there, i highly doubt she will be at the V festival this weekend, especially if she has checked herself into Rehab. But i think that it is better for her to address her problem now, then for her to carry on performing and suffering the consequences.

Amy was recently quoted as saying she'd rather cancel a gig and reschedule rather than give a disapointing performance, all the gigs she's been pulling out of have been re-scheduled. Apart from the ones with the Rolling Stones of course. Usually Amy shows up to the big ones like Glastonbury as it's a big event, she may well turn up at V, depends how her rehab treatment goes. If she does turn up she'll give a mind blowing performance as she has a lot to prove to the press and the public who have been heavily judging her the past few weeks.

[Luna]

She's suffereing exhaustion apparantly, & although she's already cancelled 2 gigs she's still going to be at the V festival this weekend...apparantly Well i'll see this weekend won't i!?

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.

i think the point that Layne was trying to trying to make was the fact that her agent was refusing to admit she had a drug problem saying she was suffering from exhaustion only....she's a preformer without the drugs she should be able to preform no problem when her agent was making out that it was just her schedule that was the problem!!

There are loads of performers out there that have been touring and have had more work load than Amy has, and they've been fine, if i'm honest i haven't heard of any of performer that has had to cancel a number of gigs due to exhaustion (there probably has but none that i know of) I think it was pretty obvious that Amy had/has a drug problem and the fact she pulled out of gigs and her agent blamed it on exhaustion - hence the apparantly. She probably is exhausted but that is probably down to a combination of drugs and a number of gigs. And although its not been said she won't be there, i highly doubt she will be at the V festival this weekend, especially if she has checked herself into Rehab. But i think that it is better for her to address her problem now, then for her to carry on performing and suffering the consequences.

Amy was recently quoted as saying she'd rather cancel a gig and reschedule rather than give a disapointing performance, all the gigs she's been pulling out of have been re-scheduled. Apart from the ones with the Rolling Stones of course. Usually Amy shows up to the big ones like Glastonbury as it's a big event, she may well turn up at V, depends how her rehab treatment goes. If she does turn up she'll give a mind blowing performance as she has a lot to prove to the press and the public who have been heavily judging her the past few weeks.

I know that drugs are highly addictive but if she really wanted to give 110% at her concert and provide her fans with the best she would have sought help earlier and not needed to cancel these concerts. And from what ive read the press are actually feeling sorry for her, even perez hilton was pleading for her to go to rehab and get help and thats saying something

[Jojo]

Anyone who uses drugs to that extent should have bad press and publicity IMO - I'm glad she is going to get help etc, but I'm still not and never have been a fan.

Mind blowing? Hmm mind boggling (only joking Bry x)

[Siobhan]

Anyone who uses drugs to that extent should have bad press and publicity IMO - I'm glad she is going to get help etc, but I'm still not and never have been a fan.

Mind blowing? Hmm mind boggling (only joking Bry x)

well said Em.. there is other people out there who work their asses of and were never involved in drug or had to cancel concerts cause of "exhaustion".. Kyle is a great example of this.. she only ever cancelled anything cause of the breast cancer and immediately after she recovered, she gave the concerts she cancelled... Amy could learn a lot from Kyle