But she was still on again, off again with the booze.
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She had a new boyfriend, Reg Traviss, she had gained some weight, was healthy and even sang a duet with Tony Bennett. "It would have been great if Amy had married a Jewish accountant, or a doctor or something like that… but it wasn't going happen, was it?"īefore her death, Amy Winehouse seemed to have her life back on track. "A lot of girls are attracted to the bad boy," he added. "So when she goes on tour everyone wants to hear her sing 'Some Unholy War,' certainly everyone wants her to sing 'Tears Dry on Their Own.' Well all those songs were about Blake, well Blake is in the past, but here she is having to relive those songs again, and to sing them properly she's got to feel them emotionally." "She didn't have a massive catalogue of songs," Mitch Winehouse said. The couple were divorced in 2009, but through the years, Amy couldn't escape Fielder-Civil's black thrall. Amy had his name tattooed on her left breast. That was 2006, the same year that Winehouse first released "Back in Black" and her ex, Blake Fielder-Civil, reemerged. "The problems that Amy had started with my mother passing away," Mitch said. Paintings of the late singer cover the walls. It's also where her father held her wake. I don't know why, but she had this thing that rehab wasn't for her."Īmy Winehouse first cut her teeth at Jazz After Dark in London's Soho neighborhood, performing impromptu with the house band. "At the time she didn't need to go into rehab," her father said. With a handful of songs and a whole lot of attitude, Amy Winehouse became a star at just 20 years old, singing about her bruised love life with Fielder-Civil on "Back to Black," and singing about refusing to go to "Rehab" on her smash hit single. "But of course there is no smoke without fire and I reflect on those stories that were true too," Mitch said. She was a sweet, funny daughter, he said, with a wild side.
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He insists Amy had been clean of drugs for three years and was well on the way to controlling her alcoholism. In the wake of her death, Mitch Winehouse wrote a memoir, "Amy, My Daughter," which he said was a way to "set the record straight from my point of view" about his daughter's substance abuse. I knew I was going to make it because of all these people." "We got to the house in Camden Square and those people, I can't tell you what it was like, my family and friends were there and hundreds of people. How we got back, I couldn't tell you," he said through tears. Mitch Winehouse, a singer whose music has a similar smoky jazz style, was preparing for a gig in New York when his daughter was found dead in her London home. PHOTOS: Amy Winehouse: A Look Back at Her Career Amy Winehouse, whose "Back to Black" album earned her five Grammys in 2008, died of alcohol poisoning last July - an accidental end to a brutal road of heroin and alcohol addiction.