The Tragic Truth About Amy Winehouse’s Last Days

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The Tragic Truth About Amy Winehouse's Last Days

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Ultimately, Winehouse’s demise was an accident, albeit one which appeared tragically inevitable. She’s been posthumously humanized greater than most with the assistance of her household, and, any controversy apart, initiatives just like the 2015 Oscar-winning documentary Amy—which her mother and father, who participated on this summer time’s BBC Two documentary Reclaiming Amy, have disavowed.

“She chose her own path, we have suffered from the trolls and the damaging speculation—accusations that Mitch just wants to make money off of his daughter, that we killed her, that we could have done more—it’s completely wrong,” Janis wrote in OK! “But addiction is a mental illness and that is the true villain in this story, I’ve studied addiction and I understand that now.”

Yet whereas the appreciation for Winehouse’s musical output is countless, we’re additionally left with an excellent higher sense of simply how unfairly preordained her demise turned out to be. Fans adored her music and needed extra from her. But on the identical time, individuals additionally ended up anticipating her to implode—virtually in a cartoonish, TV-death form of approach, as nobody was truly hoping that might occur—after which she did. Her 27-year-old physique could not take it anymore.

The sad ending individuals anticipated is strictly what they obtained.

 

Winehouse propagated her personal fantasy of the irreparably broken artist from the start, telling The Guardian in 2006, “If you’re a musician and you have things you want to get out, you write music. You don’t want to be settled, because when you’re settled you might as well call it a day.”

So we’ll by no means know if Amy Winehouse would have finally realized that the 2 did not must be mutually unique, that maybe at some point she too might be “settled” with out inventive consequence. In the meantime, she did not undergo for her artwork a lot as determine that, since she was struggling, she could as properly make artwork.

She informed E! News in 2007 that she did not care if she was getting a fame for being troublesome, or that her private life was making headlines. “I’m above it,” she mentioned. “I really like my record, you know. I’m really proud of it. If 10 other people like it, I’m happy.”

(Originally revealed Sept. 14, 2018, at three a.m. PT)