A member of Amy Winehouse's family has contacted BBC 5Live's Phil Williams show, asking the media to leave the singer alone while she attempts to recover from her drug problems.
The woman, who only gave her name as 'Sue', phoned to complain after Winehouse was used as an example in a discussion about drug use. She said: "You keep bringing up that she's a teenage icon and what example is she setting. She's setting no example. She didn't want to be an example - all she wants to be is a singer and a songwriter. Please let her finish her rehabilitation - let her try to get off the stuff and then we'll have the Amy we all want. There are thousands of families going through the same tragic situation as us all over England and they're allowed to get on with it quietly - and this is all we ask for Amy".
Sue also hit out at the paparazzi who hang around outside the singer's home: "Give it a break - stop printing all those nasty photos. Amy has the press knocking on her door at two o'clock, three o'clock in the morning and some of the photos of Amy at her worst is when she's had no sleep and gone downstairs to say 'leave me alone, shut up, I want to go to sleep'".