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Winehouse Senior talks about Amy’s death
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 September 2011
Mitch Winehouse has told a US talk show that he believes his daughter Amy died after suffering a seizure, related to alcohol detoxification, when there was simply “nobody there to rescue her”.
Talking on a new syndicated TV show fronted by CNN journalist Anderson Cooper, Winehouse said that while there was some alcohol in his daughter’s blood stream at the time of her death, it’s not clear that that contributed to her passing, and that there were also traces of the prescription drug Librium, which is used to fight anxiety and the withdrawal symptoms of alcoholism, and that it could have actually been the singer’s efforts to detox that caused her untimely demise.
Although stressing this was just a theory, and that a full inquest into his daughter’s death was due to start soon, Winehouse Senior noted: “Everything Amy did, she did to excess. She drank to excess and did detox to excess”. He added that Amy’s efforts to beat her alcohol dependency were achieving results, with ever longer periods of abstinence and shorter periods of drinking, though he says that he regrets his daughter did not consult a doctor about her detox, because she had suffered seizures during this time and something similar may have resulted in her death.
Continuing, Winehouse said that while Amy was regularly taking harder drugs, including heroin and cocaine, her untimely death would not have come as a surprise, but that given her recent progress in overcoming past demons her passing in July was a shock. Though he revealed that when he was called by the singer’s security guard shortly after her demise, he could immediately tell from the tone of his voice that something was seriously wrong, and that he therefore opened the conversation by asking: “Is she dead?”
Mitch added that while he blamed Amy’s ex-husband Blake Fielder Civil for introducing his daughter to harder drugs, he did not blame him for her death because she had successfully kicked those substances at the end of 2008. He concluded by confirming that the outpouring of support from his daughter’s fans continued to provide comfort for his family as they still come to terms with her premature death.
