Amy Winehouse

[ikmccall]

When she went to rehab in the UK, she would leave early, like after a week. When she was in St Bart's, she was there for months.

[margojata]

I think it's fascinating to see how many of us have addiction in our families (and I'm sorry about your brother, LurkerNan. God, so awful). We need a thread just about that.

I never feel safe, or comfortable, or haughty enough to say, "I'll never do that!". I've lived a lot of years (yeah yeah, I'm 49), and I know how life can turn on a dime. My whole family has been addicted to various things over the years, and I myself was a food addict for a long time. I broke it by being an avid runner... I traded an unhealthy addiction for a healthy one. But it's an addiction, nonetheless. I never drank until my father got terminally ill. I recognized that I was drinking a little TOO much to get through the pain and settled down. But I can't say for certain that something else won't send me spiraling to alcohol or food. Add in a chemical imbalance in the brain (which thankfully I do not have), and all bets are off on who can handle life and who cannot.

And no, thinking about what it would do to your parents, etc., does not work. You have to realize how impaired the thinking is. How f'ed up the brain is. You can't see past waking up in the morning, or getting through a day. You can't focus on anything, period. There but for the grace of who knows what can go anyone.

So today is the funeral..

Winehouse, 27, will be cremated, The Sun reported, adding that some of the singer’s ashes will be scattered with those of her beloved grandmother Cynthia, who died of lung cancer five years ago.

The 5-time Grammy winning artist is said to have idolized her grandmother, and even had her name tattooed on her arm.

I wonder how her parents felt about the Rehab song? Did Amy write it? She had a whole hell of a lot of enablers, that sure doesn't help. Having an addict put out a song about refusing rehab is just icky.

[Mutagen]

Jul 26, 2011 8:06:15 GMT -4 margojata said:

I wonder how her parents felt about the Rehab song? Did Amy write it?

I always felt a little guilty/creepy for liking that song, but I couldn't help it. That line about "but if my daddy thinks I'm fine" especially. Brrr.

[discoprincess]

Jul 26, 2011 1:56:45 GMT -4 Yossarian said:

I think she went to The Priory a number of times as well as doing a stint on some island treatment centre.

I wonder if she left a will?

At least Blake won't be left automatically to profit from her estate - unless the will says otherwise.

[eclair]

I think a lot of people who commit suicide are so messed up in their thinking that they believe their family will be better off without them.

[Witchie]

Jul 26, 2011 9:47:50 GMT -4 discoprincess said:

Jul 26, 2011 1:56:45 GMT -4 Yossarian said:

I think she went to The Priory a number of times as well as doing a stint on some island treatment centre.

I wonder if she left a will?

At least Blake won't be left automatically to profit from her estate - unless the will says otherwise.

The Daily Mail quotes an unnamed source saying that Amy took step to keep Blake away from her money. The source was sure Amy had a will. I'm not so sure Amy would leave Blake out of her will. She seemed to think their love was true.

[magazinewhore]

There was an article on Jezebel yesterday that Blake might profit, because apparently (it said) even if you are divorced but haven't rewritten a new will, the spouse can still get money. I don't know enough about English law and that didn't seem to make sense.

[Auroranorth]

Jul 23, 2011 14:56:23 GMT -4 kostgard said:

I think insecurities were a big part of her problem(s). Even when she wasn't a huge mess, she was kinda twitchy and uncomfortable while performing. I'm sure it didn't help that she got shit in the media for her looks and for being "fat." Then she cracked out, lost weight, and looked terrible. The difference on her album covers - "Frank" versus "Back in Black" are startling. She looks healthy on "Frank." She looks like a junkie on "Back in Black."

But I thought she was very pretty in an off-beat sort of way. Look how lovely she was back when you could count her number of ill-advised tattoos on one hand, she didn't have that damn beehive or terrible makeup, and actually had some meat on her bones (same song as the link above).

Her problems were numerous and complex, and she never got the help she needed. So sad.

She was so pretty then- it's just a few years ago.

[Sunnyhorse]

She was lovely. No cookie-cutter bleached, spray-tanned, fake-boobed "beauty" there. I remember seeing before-and-after photos of her in the British press after she started with the heavy drug use, and the "afters" were shocking -- the emaciation, the matted hair, the bloody slippers. Her family must have felt like they were trying to help a drowning woman who kept slipping from their grasp.

[Auroranorth]

This was in the very first post in Amy's thread.

She had so much promise. Her poor family.