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“I was at my wits end," says Mitch Winehouse. "I just didn’t know which way to turn. I’d tried everything. Once I even started screaming and said I was having a heart attack, but it didn’t work. Amy’s not stupid and she wanted to see my medical records proving I was actually ill... got our doctor to tell Amy that I was dying."
Last summer Amy often stayed in her bedroom. Her father claims fans even threw drugs up to her window for her. Finally he brought in a security team and she agreed to go to a clinic. But several months later her ex broke out of rehab himself to visit her and she relapse. Blake called her constantly and her dad says he had to take the batteries out of her phone to keep him away from her.
“I was incandescent," says her father. "Someone who wanted to get clean reunited with her junkie husband. But since then she hasn’t looked back.” Her father claims Amy's lengthy trip to St. Lucia took her away from all the drugs and bad influences and supposedly she quit drugs. “One of the conditions for her American visa is that she’s drug free,” he says. “The tests were taken by the doctor who reports to the US Embassy and they’ve come back negative. It’s not me being a deluded father – the truth is there for all to see. Nine months ago she wasn’t coherent. But now she doesn’t binge on chocolate like she used to. She’s no longer bulimic. She’s healthy."
We're relieved to hear that and hope it's all true, but we think it is slightly deluded for Amy's father to think she's all better. He says security will remove her from bad situations, but Winehouse has to want to be sober herself. And she needs all the help she can get. [Mirror]
