They tried to make her go to rehab…
So here’s the latest on Amy Winehouse according to the AP:
Report: Amy Winehouse has emphysema
Soul diva Amy Winehouse has damaged her lungs by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes, her father said in an interview published Sunday.
The Sunday Mirror quoted Mitch Winehouse as saying that Amy has early stage emphysema and an irregular heartbeat, and has been warned that she will have to wear an oxygen mask unless she stops smoking drugs.
“The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,” Mitch Winehouse was quoted as saying. “There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She has 70 percent lung capacity.”
Winehouse, 24, collapsed at her north London home Monday after signing autographs for a group of fans and was taken to a London hospital for tests. She remained there all week.
She is still scheduled to sing at a concert in London on Friday celebrating the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the South African Nobel Prize-winner, and plans to take part in the Glastonbury music festival the following day.
Mitch Winehouse said it would be good for his daughter to perform. “When she’s been inactive work-wise then that’s when the problems really start. The doctors have said that medically there isn’t any reason why she can’t do Glastonbury,” the paper quoted him as saying.
He also pleaded with her drug-taking friends to stay away from her. “What hope does she have if people are taking drugs around her,” he said.
Chris Goodman, spokesman for Amy Winehouse, said “If that’s what Mitch says, that’s what he says. It sounds right.” Mitch Winehouse could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Can you imagine a 24-year-old with emphysema? The entire Amy Winehouse story is such a tragedy. Here is someone who is so talented and yet throwing her life away to her monstrous addictions.
I don’t know how involved Amy Winehouse’s father has been in her life up until now – maybe very involved and swimming upstream against the “industry” and Amy’s circle of “friends” – but he certainly seems to be paying attention now. This can only be a good thing.
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This is almost exactly what is happening to a good friend of mine. He has been smoking cigarettes and marijuana since he was about 13 years old. He will be turning 30 this year and has just been diagnosed with early stages of emphysema. We have always looked at this disease as affecting people in their later stages of life. However, it now seems that it can strike much earlier. The only solution is to quit the substances causing the problem. I think in both cases it is much more difficult to do than it sounds. It’s a shame.