Amy Winehouse's dad Mitch thinks that his daughter's present destructive ways might have something to do with his own bad behaviour - he left the singer's mother back in 1996 following a thirteen year affair with a colleague and thinks the impact on Amy might have been harder than he originally thought.
He says: "Perhaps deep down she felt her parents were splitting up, she could not rely on them to stay together and that it was about time she learned to look after herself. I thought Amy was over it pretty quickly - in fact it felt at the time Amy felt no effect at all. Maybe she could not articulate it in words, but she certainly did it with music. It is easy for me to say it is my fault, and that had I been a better parent this would not have happened. But who knows whether it would or not?"