Amy Winehouse

[Witchie]

I was wondering the same thing, ronette. I'm assuming she didn't have to go through proper channels because both parents were willing to give up custody.

[Deleted]

Yeah, I looked into adopting a child from the West Indies a couple of years ago and IIRC, a UK Citizen has to be approved for adoption in the UK first. That was obviously never going to happen with Amy and I don't think she could have started any *legal* proceedings in St Lucia without it.

[discoprincess]

Jul 31, 2011 12:53:17 GMT -4 @ronette said:

It's clear that Amy loved St Lucia and the people, but really, who in their right mind would give a child to Amy to look after?

If Casey Johnson could adopt a kid, why not Amy? Casey was at least as messed up as Amy - and is now also deceased.

I don't find Amy's alleged desire to adopt a kid that far-fetched, but obviously she wasn't in the right place in life to do so.

Maybe she should have dropped out of the scene and had stayed in St. Lucia longer.

[Deleted]

Jul 31, 2011 13:19:22 GMT -4 discoprincess said:

Jul 31, 2011 12:53:17 GMT -4 @ronette said:

It's clear that Amy loved St Lucia and the people, but really, who in their right mind would give a child to Amy to look after?

If Casey Johnson could adopt a kid, why not Amy? Casey was at least as messed up as Amy - and is now also deceased.

I was thinking the same thing. Really, if you have enough money? You can adopt a child no matter how screwed up you are.

[huntergrayson]

She received quite the posthumous sales bump in the UK with Back to Black topping the album charts, Frank coming in at number five and a box set of the two at #10.

[LurkerNan]

ITA on thinking the girl's family is out for some money... how long before they start petitioning the estate for support?

[GoldenFleece]

The toxicology reports are back:

No illegal drugs were in the system of Amy Winehouse when the troubled singer died July 23, says her family.

Spokesman Chris Goodman said in a release Tuesday: "Toxicology results returned to the Winehouse family by authorities have confirmed that there were no illegal substances in Amy's system at the time of her death."

The statement also said, "Results indicate that alcohol was present but it cannot be determined as yet if it played a role in her death" at age 27.

[Ginger]

Actually, the toxicology reports *aren't* back. Amy's family is releasing this statement, and yet Scotland Yard is saying they haven't gotten the toxicology report yet so they can't comment. It's all very fishy to me. It seems to me like Amy's parents, in the tradition of Heath Ledger's family and Brittany Murphy's family, are going to make sure they can pin the death on anything other than drugs.

[margojata]

Would the parents hear from the coroner before the police? I have no idea.

Yeah, the parents were talking about how clean she had been, yet her mother also said she had recently seen Amy completely out of it. I don't know, I'd probably take that route of denial too if I'd lost a child.

[GoldenFleece]

If it's not drugs then why shouldn't families want to set the record straight? But the toxicology reports are going to be released eventually and will tell the story either way.