Amy Winehouse’s mom says the troubled star is in “denial” about her alcoholism.
Janis Winehouse is adamant that her superstar daughter, who has a history of drug abuse and is currently on vacation in St Lucia, needs to be rescued.
“The need to rescue her is enormous,” Janis told interviewer Daphne Barak. “I just want her to be okay and I would do whatever it took to make that right.
“Amy is in denial all the time. She probably feels trapped, her body is trapping her. But I know with addiction you do not have the choice because the substance itself directs you.
“I want to say to her, ‘Amy, what are you doing? Don’t you know what you’re doing?’ But she by then has got herself on to it to help her get through, and I understand that.”
Amy’s father, Mitch Winehouse, added, “I need my daughter to be a whole person again.
“I tried it all — I said, ‘Amy you’ve got to do this, you’ve got to go to this doctor, you’ve got to do this, you’ve got to do that, you’re killing me, you’re killing your mum’. None of it worked.”
“For the last six months there’s been a remarkable recovery,” Mitch added.
“A gradual recovery, which is good. With slight backward steps — not drug backward steps, more drink backward steps if you follow my drift. I think that will be the pattern of recovery.”
Mitch also blamed his daughter’s estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil for fueling her drug habit.
“The option of them being together is too horrible to contemplate,” he said.
“They are going to get divorced and who knows what’s going to happen down the line.
“Amy and Blake have decided that they want to get on with their lives separately, and if they get back together again in the future and they’re both clean and they still love each other, that’s up to them.”
[Pic of Amy at V Festival 2008 via Landmark / PR Photos]
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