Amy Winehouse's parents fear alcohol may kill their troubled daughter
As Amy Winehouse relaxes in the sun on her extended stay in the Caribbean, it seems that her problems are far from over. According to her worried parents, Mitch and Janis, Amy may have kicked her drug habit but the 26-year-old singer is still addicted to alcohol.
Speaking in a documentary on ITV1 to be aired tonight, cabbie Mitch explained: "I need my daughter to be a whole person again. I've tried it all. I said: 'Amy you've got to do this, you've got to go to this doctor, you've got to do this, you've got to do that, you're killing me, you're killing your mum.' None of it worked."
Meanwhile her mother Janis added: "The need to rescue her is enormous. I just want her to be OK and I would do whatever it took to make that right. Amy is in denial all the time. She probably feels trapped, her body is trapping her.
Although she is still dependent on booze, Mitch was keen to highlight her remarkable recovery from drug abuse.
He added: "For the last six months, there's been a remarkable recovery. A gradual recovery, which is good. With slight backward steps - not drug backward steps, more drink backward steps if you follow my drift. I think that will be the pattern of recovery."
And on the prickly subject of estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Mitch said: "The option of them being together is too horrible to contemplate. They are going to get divorced and who knows what's going to happen down the line.
"Amy and Blake have decided that they want to get on with their lives separately, and if they get back together again in the future and they're both clean and they still love each other, that's up to them."
