Amy Winehouse admits to Rolling Stone she did drugs while in rehab
The new issue of Rolling Stone features a bizarre but revealing interview with Amy Winehouse conducted just before the fainting spell that landed her in the hospital. Apparently, the reporter from Rolling Stone simply waited outside the singer’s door until about 4 in the morning, when Amy invited her inside for a beer. What the reporter found inside was quite a sight, but not much of a surprise: Amy’s home was a disaster, and so was she.
All around her, Winehouse’s home is in disastrous disarray: Discarded bags of potato chips, crumpled nuggets of tinfoil, beer bottles, lingerie boxes and scattered old credit cards tell of a long night that hasn’t ended in weeks, maybe months…
For the last hour, Winehouse has been getting ready to meet the paparazzi; she’s been carefully drawing the dark, thick Cleopatra swoops around her eyes, over smudges of makeup past, her long, manicured red fingernails masking a black resin lining, her lip gloss glittering pink, foundation covering little scabs that raid her face. “What are you going to say, Amy?” I ask her from the couch where I’ve been slumped over, scratching notes for the past few hours. At 4 a.m. — after I’d spent half the night outside her apartment, hoping for an interview — Winehouse had, much to my surprise, opened the door and invited me in for beer. Since then, Winehouse has been puttering around her house in varying states of consciousness, disappearing every half an hour or so upstairs to her bedroom and returning to talk to me a little about her music, a little about her drugs and a lot about her imprisoned husband. Through it all, she’s an attentive and open hostess, boiling me tea and giving me extra slips of paper to take notes. Now, thinking about the waiting paparazzi outside, she keeps her eyes fastened on her image in the mirror.
Amy goes on to say that she doesn’t really think she has a problem with drugs- she thinks she’s just young, bored, and likes to get her rocks off. She proudly reveals that during her last stint in rehab just before the Grammys, she did drugs the entire time.
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Winehouse has insisted from the beginning of her career that she is a simple girl crazy in love with her man. Her life, her history and talent all seem barely worth talking about when one could talk about Blake, how fit he is, how perfect for each other they are. “We are so in love, we are a team,” she rhapsodizes to me. “Blake, Blake, Blake, Blake, Blake, Blake, Blake.” It’s as if she’s putting herself in a trance…
Winehouse fell hard; his name was quickly tattooed on her chest. But the romance was rocky, and during one breakup, when Fielder-Civil left her for another woman, she wrote the bulk of Back to Black, her second album. Following incidents of public intoxication, her management tried to pack Winehouse off to rehab. Famously, she refused. By the time Back to Black hit the U.S. last year, Winehouse was hailed as the future of soul music. The album sold 2 million copies in America and eventually earned her five Grammys…
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With her husband gone, Winehouse slid into a despondent place. She canceled her tour at the end of 2007, saying, “I can’t give it my all onstage without my Blake.” And in January, after a clip of her smoking crack was released to the tabloid The Sun, she was sent to rehab by her record label again. She didn’t stay long, and she happily tells me she did drugs the whole time…
Winehouse says all of this is the product of heartbreak from being separated from her true love, whose name appears in a little heart pin she often wears in her hair. “To be honest, my husband’s away, I’m bored, I’m young,” Winehouse tells me. “I felt like there was nothing to live for. It’s just been a low ebb.”
[From Rolling Stone]
If this is what she calls a “low ebb,” I’d hate to see what her version of rock bottom is! If anything, this interview shows how co-dependent Amy is when it comes to Blake Incarcerated. She seems to think that real love means ceasing to function when the other person isn’t there. It’s really sick. It sounds like Amy is going to have to kick her Blake addiction before she can address anything else. What the hell is it going to take?
Picture note by Celebitchy: Amy Winehouse is shown on 6/2/08 outside her husband’s trial. There are more recent photos of her, but none in the past week and a half or so. Thanks to WENN.
