According to reports, Amy Winehouse has met with lawyers to arrange a divorce from her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil. The singer, as previously reported, was rumoured to be determined to bring the marriage to an end following Fielder-Civil's early release from prison, where he was, of course, serving time after being convicted of assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice. The couple haven't seen each other since his release.
It sounds like it's Winehouse (assisted by dad Mitch, obviously) that is the proactive one in seeking the divorce, but Fielder-Civil has reportedly been saying he's going to let her go, because he's a bad influence on her. He told the News Of The World that he had introduced her to various drugs, and taken her down a road "she would never have gone down" without him. The tabloid quote him as saying: "Now I have to let her go to save her life. I am not abandoning her. I am doing this out of love".
He continues: "I introduced her to heroin, crack cocaine and self-harming. I feel more than guilty. The first time Amy took crack she asked me, 'Can I try a bit of that'. Crack is the nastiest drug. It makes you paranoid, unreasonable, edgy and totally suspicious of everyone. And you can get hooked on it straight away. But I was weak and an addict and I let Amy take some. I didn't stop it from happening. For that I take full responsibility. It became something we did as well as heroin. And then our lives fell apart".
Fielder-Civil is, of course, presently in rehab, under the conditions of his early release.