Amy Winehouse dead - Page 2

Definitely.

Amy Winehouse didnt start using heroin until after her song Rehab, so when she wrote the song, Rehab, she wasnt an addict, yet. She was just spotted out drinking heavily.

Rehab is a 2007 song, Amy had drug issues beginning in 2005, and not just alcohol either. It may not have been heroin, but ecstasy and meth are drugs.

I think she was a sad person, who had many issues, and her death is a tragedy. But like I said, her gift was thrown away.

Absolutely. I feel for her family. It's the worst thing in the world to lose a child. Her father breaks my heart.

She took a sad road, but sometimes these things happen in life. The choices we make are not always driven by what's in our best interest.

I am not saying Amy didn't do drugs or drink, but when her song, Rehab was released in October of 2006, and when she wrote it, she was not an addict. She was a party girl and she didn't hide that fact, but her actual addiction was not in effect, yet, so she wasn't "poking fun at her family". Her Father was very outspoken at the time of the song "Rehab" that his daughter did not have a problem. Being a party girl and having an addiction are not the same.

I am not directing this at you in particular, it's just your comments are very similar to what some others are saying about her in her death. Things that are not factual, things that may have been said about her in the media to form these opinions.

She certainly didn't feel like she was "entitled". Amy was a very down to earth person and was in the British media a lot (much more than the US)(and it seems that when she was in the US media it was always about the "bad") She was known for being a down to earth, very loving person.

When you said, that she made "hardly attempts to help themselves", that isn't a fact, she went to rehab, after she became an addict, several times. She did try to help herself.

And she certainly wasn't a "waste". She had the disease of addiction and something that perhaps she just wasn't able to overcome. The people around her have stated that when she died, she had overcome her addictions, although she may have had a relapse.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter, she is deceased now, but it seems like there are some people that only remember her for the addiction she had and do call her a "waste", when that doesn't even begin to cover who she was in this life. For me personally, I find that very sad, but it's especially bothersome when people have formed this perception of her, when the facts of her life are not correct.

You are right-we don't hear much here in the US, unless it's the bad. Americans tend to be interested in "Dirt" as opposed to good things.

The latest news is that she died from withdrawal. It would seem she tried to quit cold turkey and it killed her. Poor dear.

Oh, that's just horrible. I know the DT's are bad, but to die from it? Sad.

Where is that news being reported? I thought it would take 2-4 weeks to have a proper diagnosis from the labs... it might be best to wait until then before believing what you read, unless it's from a reliable and reputable source.

edited to add, I only say this because there's so much speculation and so little fact... not meant as a slight!

This was reported on one of our most reliable TV news stations here in Canada - CTV. It's definitely NOT Fox News.

I love it!

Her Father gave away some of her clothes and jewellery to fans, which l think was a lovely gesture

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz...6908-23304892/

Well it has been reported that her autopsy shows no illegal drugs in her system.

Although, I am sad that she is now gone, at least she has shown everyone that she wasnt what so many people said about her in her death. Hopefully, now she will be remembered in a more positive light.

Rest Peacefully Amy

I just caught up with the news this morning after being out last night, so it was a relief to hear, especially for her family and her name

I have heard addiction experts say that quitting alcohol is more likely to kill you than quitting any other drug.

They said she had some alcohol in her system, but not how much. Also, they haven't said if there were any legal drugs in her system. So maybe she was trying to quit alcohol, and then had too much to drink after not having any for a while (leading to an overdose, since her body wasn't used to it anymore)? Or maybe she mixed sleeping pills or some other medication with alcohol. Or the years of abuse just caught up to her.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/aug/2...-still-cloudy/

To put it in perspective, my brother had a good friend who has had a degenerative bond disease for many years. He was on massive doses of painkillers, had surgery almost every year to replace one joint or another, and apparently accidentally overdosed a couple of months ago. People forget that even legal drugs in legal doses can kill you, given just a little push over the edge.