Blake fielder civil now. Amy Winehouse: all about the life of a singer

Former husband of late singer Amy Winehouse Blake Fielder-Civil is still in a coma after a drug overdose, reports The Daily Mail.

Fielder-Civil, 30, was admitted to a Yorkshire hospital after being discovered unconscious by his wife, Sarah Aspin. According to her, when her husband returned home after the party, his behavior seemed strange to her, she immediately suspected that he had taken drugs.

Two weeks ago, Blake was released from prison, where he ended up in early 2011 for burglary using fake weapons. He was sentenced to 3 years, but he was released after a year. Fielder-Civil's mother believes that her son may have tried to commit suicide after reading a text message from Amy Winhouse that came to his mobile phone more than a year ago. In prison, he was not allowed to have his own mobile phone, so he did not know about the SMS that had been stored for many months. Returning home, he accidentally stumbled upon his old phone. In a message, Amy wrote to him that she would like to become a godmother for his newborn son Jack, who is now a year and 3 months old. Blake was impressed by this text message. He admitted that he missed Amy a lot.

Blake's mother worried about his life last year, when it became known about the death of Amy Winehouse. "Blake will kill himself," she said. According to her, her son always wanted to return to Amy, they could not part completely.

Fielder-Civil is a drug addict and alcoholic with many years of experience. He met Amy Winehouse in 2005. He worked as an operator. The young people were married for two years, and then divorced after a series of high-profile scandals related to alcohol and drugs. It was rumored that they were going to get married again, but this never happened, to the great joy of the singer's parents. It is known that shortly before her death, Amy often called her ex-wife and sent SMS, which was always signed by "your wife". And this despite the fact that he married another, and she married Reg Travis.

The singer's father, Mitch Winehouse, accused Blake of being the one who put his daughter on drugs. He wouldn't even let him go to Amy's funeral. Blake himself once admitted that he "introduced" Amy to heroin, crack and amphetamine. “Because of drugs, we can’t live a normal life together. And that’s why I have to let her go,” he said, explaining why he was the first to file for divorce. Another reason was her betrayal. At the same time, Blake said that he dreams of reuniting with Amy when they both recover from drug addiction.

After the news of his hospitalization, Father Winehouse tweeted: "Terrible news about Blake. Remember Amy loved him. Let's pray for his recovery."

As Blake's wife, Aspin, said, doctors do not give any predictions about his state of health. "Now they are supporting his life and trying to prevent the development of infection. I pray that he will survive, but I understand that he may never wake up," Aspin said.

Amy Winehouse was one of the most successful British pop stars. She has received five Grammy awards. at the age of 27. The forensic medical examination revealed in her body a five-fold excess of the alcohol norm.

On September 10 the film "Amy" will be released - a biopic about the life of the British singer Amy Winehouse, who passed away four years ago. The documentary premiered to applause from critics and outrage from her father. Amy's story in a special HELLO!

Amy Winehouse was found dead on 23 July 2011 at her home in Camden, north London. She died at four o'clock in the evening and for several hours after her death lay alone, surrounded by empty bottles of whiskey. She was 27 years old.

A simple Jewish girl from the outskirts with a beautiful voice - contralto, who can sing with a Negro accent, has become a European star of white soul. She was recognized even in America - in the homeland of real black soul. True, they did not want to be allowed to America for bad behavior (drug addicts are not given a visa to the States, even if you are at least three times a star), and she took her five Grammy awards for the Back to Black album virtually - via teleconference from London. Amy Winehouse's Back to Black album was released in 2006, but she hasn't released a single since then.

The last years of her life looked, alas, sad: it was already difficult to determine what Amy Winehouse became famous for - achievements in pop music or photographs in the yellow press, in which she appeared ugly and drunk. The newspapers regularly described her showdown with her husband, video editor Blake Fielder-Civil (until he was imprisoned for theft), reported how she disrupted concerts, how she disrupted the whole tour, because she could barely stay on her feet ... To her terrible end, Amy Winehouse flew at full steam. Everyone understood this, but no one could (or maybe they did not try enough) to stop her.

Amy Winehacks' style, which is now called iconic, was not formed at the same time: Amy began to draw bold arrows at once, and the famous babette gradually grew on her head.

The authors of the documentary "Amy", director of Indian origin Asif Kapadia and producer James Gay-Rees, interviewed a whole crowd of people who knew the singer in one way or another - relatives, friends, promoters, managers ... All of them on the screen express confidence in their innocence to the tragic fate of Amy Winehouse and find their own versions of why, even being in a deranged state, she continued to go on stage - she earned money. The most poignant moment of the film is connected with the personality of Amy's father, Mitchell Winehouse, whose role in the fate of the pop diva is presented by the authors as rather contradictory.

It is known that Mitch Winehouse was one of the most important people in Amy's life: on her forearm she wore a tattoo of Daddy's Girl - "Daddy's daughter." Amy, and all these musical styles - soul, rhythm and blues, gospel, swing - entered her flesh and blood.Mitch was always there for Amy: he took her to hospitals, protected from sticking drug dealers, was her friend and a nanny. In an interview with The Guardian, Mitch recalled that their relationship with Amy was sometimes too trusting. She, for example, told her dad about her attempts to conceive a child with Reg Travis, her new boyfriend (shortly before her death, Amy thought she was pregnant) , and one day, while lying in the hospital, she sent her elderly father to the Agent Provocateur lingerie store, and he went and bought her what she asked. Taking care of his famous daughter, Mitchell never forgot about himself. Beside her he himself became a celebrity : Has often appeared on television, created his own show on the Internet and released a solo album. ("Amy always told me," Dad, you're a great singer, "he explained.)

During Amy's lifetime, Mitch Winehouse was going to launch a reality show about her touring activities, and after the death of his daughter he published his memoirs, and this book held the top of sales in the UK for two weeks. Mitch, however, claims that the proceeds from the sale of the memoirs went not to his personal pocket, but to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which he heads (the foundation supports drug rehabilitation programs). "Amy's family took only her personal funds and nothing more," he said.

Mitch Winehouse has big complaints about Asif Kapadia's film about the white soul star, which has collected a crop of positive reviews from the audience at the Cannes Film Festival. He willingly took part in the work on the picture, but at the last stage he abruptly stepped aside. In his opinion, the filmmakers chose a false angle in covering Amy's troubled life and completely distorted him, Mitch Winehouse, a worthy image, presenting him as a vain and greedy person who puts money and fame above the health of his daughter.

The director Kapadia, of course, does not share this opinion. “Working on the film, we knew that many people would not like it, but it is completely about Amy, about what was happening around her, about the people around her,” he says. The assessments of the painting by its participants (and there are dozens of them) also differ quite significantly. Even among the beloved men of Amy Winehouse, there is no unanimity on this matter. Amy's dear friend Reg Traviss found himself in the camp of the film's enemies, and her ex-husband and her main love, Blake Fielder-Civil, on the contrary, considers the film to be completely objective, reflecting the events as they really were.

It is interesting that Amy's beloved men, who have a different view of the events of the past, and their personal fate have developed in different ways. Blake Fielder-Civil, after his release from prison and the death of Amy, suddenly became a respectable philistine: he gave up drugs, got a common-law wife and children and lives quietly in provincial Leeds. Reg Traviss has not yet found his family happiness. He had several girlfriends, and one of them in 2012 accused him of rape (but Reg managed to prove in court that it was sex by consent).

Which of these two unreliable types the viewer can trust is, of course, a moot point. In "Amy", in addition to the revelations of the singer's relatives, dozens of other testimonies (photographs, amateur and home videos) are given that should help Amy's fans draw their own conclusions. The Russian premiere of the film will take place on September 2, on the opening day of the Center for Contemporary Documentary Film Festival, at the Documentary Film Center.

In 2014, Amy Winehouse's parents, Mitch and Janice, unveiled a bronze monument to their daughter in the market square in Camden, the area of ​​London she loved the most. Mom and dad divorced when Amy was ten years old (Mitch left for another woman), and, as it is assumed, this trauma affected her later life. Nevertheless, Amy was equally close to her mother and father. In an interview, Mitch Winehouse said that he still cries for Amy. “When we get together with the whole family, we cry and then laugh, because she always made us laugh,” the singer's father recalled.

At the unveiling of the bronze monument to Amy Winehouse, her parents, Mitch and Janice, tried to look cheerful

Amy and Blake

They met at a bar in Camden in 2005 and got married in 2007. Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil were a troubled couple. Shortly after the wedding, a photographer accidentally filmed them together on the street - rumpled, bruised and bruised. It was assumed that the couple had a fight. When fame came to Amy, many temptations arose. A year after Amy's death, in 2012, Blake admitted that he introduced her to hard drugs. This revelation became fatal for him - the public did not forgive such an atrocity. Blake is now in the UK persona non grata. He admitted to the Daily Mail that he could not find a job, as everyone considers him to be the culprit in Amy's death. "Amy would not approve of the way they treat me," he complained. In 2012, Blake visited the grave of his ex-wife for the first time (Amy's parents were against his presence at the funeral), but this turned into a scandal. After seeing the newspaper report, Mitch and Janice said it was disrespectful to Amy's memory to have a photo shoot at their daughter's grave.

The unexpected death of a 27-year-old British singer Amy Winehouse, who was found dead in her north London apartment, has become a tragedy for Western show business. The most famous contemporary performers in blogs, microblogs and the media expressed condolences over the death of the outstanding singer.

According to the Daily Mail, the singer was found dead at about 4 pm local time on Saturday. According to the British media, two ambulances were called to the scene in the Camden area at about 16.00 British summer time (19.00 Moscow time), but they could no longer help. According to preliminary reports, Winehouse committed suicide. According to other sources, the singer died of a drug overdose.

Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in Southgate (Anfield, London) into the Jewish family of taxi driver Mitchell Winehouse and pharmacist Janice Winehouse (née Seaton). Her father is the son of Benjamin Winehouse and Fanny Grandish (born 1895), the daughter of Abraham Grandish, an emigrant from Russia of Jewish origin. The Winehouse family (now divorced) had two children: Amy and older brother Alex.

Biography of 27-year-old Winehouse, suffering from alcohol and drug addiction, has long been at the center of public scandals and legal proceedings. She appeared in court several times for fighting and assaulting people. In the spring of 2008, Winehouse got into the police twice - at the end of April she was detained on suspicion of assaulting two men, and in May she was detained on suspicion of illegal possession and use of drugs.

In the summer of 2008, Winehouse was hospitalized - doctors discovered she had pulmonary emphysema and cardiac abnormalities. Nevertheless, the singer did not refuse to participate in concerts, combining them with courses of treatment and rehabilitation therapy.

Amy Winehouse has had serious drug problems in recent years. In addition, she went through a difficult divorce from Blake Fielder-Civil (married on May 18, 2007), who, by his own admission, "hooked" her on illegal drugs.

In January 2009, the singer's husband, who was serving a prison sentence at that time, Blake Fielder-Civil, filed for divorce, accusing his wife of treason. The High Court of London in mid-July formalized the divorce of Winehouse and Fielder-Civil.

Parents Mitch and Janice Winehouse tried desperately to save their daughter Amy.

Back in 2009, in an interview with ITV News, Mitch said: “I want my daughter to become a full-fledged person again. I tried everything, I told her:“ Amy, you have to do this, you have to go to this doctor, you need do this, you need to do this, you are killing me, you are killing your mom. "Nothing worked." Janice added, "The need to save her is overwhelming. I just want her to be okay and I will do whatever I want to make it work. Amy constantly denies her addiction. She might feel trapped. But I know , with addiction you have no choice because the substance is controlling you. I want to tell her, "Amy, what are you doing? Can't you see what you're doing? "But by then she had brought up the issue so that we could help her cope, and I understand her."

Mitch blamed Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil for all her troubles. He explained: “The possibility of their being together is too dire to consider. They are going to get divorced, and who knows what will happen in the end. Amy and Blake decided that they wanted to continue their lives separately from each other, and if they were together again in the future, get rid of bad habits and still be in love with each other, that's their business. "

Shocking revelations of the ex-wife of Blake Fielder-Civil

At the same time, Blake Fielder-Civil in a shocking interview with News of the World admitted that he "introduced" the scandalous diva to drugs such as heroin, crack and amphetamine. And so he decided to file for divorce in order to protect her from death. The former prison inmate admitted that he was the cause of all the troubles of one of the most talented singers in the modern music world. In addition, he talked about how he invited her to try crack and heroin, how he taught how to cut veins and how Amy cheated on him with her manager's assistant.

“Now I need to let her go so that she can save her life,” he says. “I do it out of sincere love for her. I made a big mistake when I started using heroin in front of her eyes. cocaine and suicidal tendencies I feel guilty. I started using hard drugs at 22 and they got the better of me. Because of them, I ignored the problems of the woman I loved more than anyone in my life.

The first time Amy tried crack, we were having fun and she asked me "can I try some?" Crack is the creepiest drug. After that, you become paranoid, angry and completely out of control. I could not refuse her and must be held responsible for this. After we switched to heroin, we took different paths. I was with her when she had her first overdose and she was dying before my eyes. I still cannot forget it. We took heroin and crack all day long, we didn't even think about stopping. Then my wife, whom I love sincerely and unconditionally, just started shaking. I started crying and put her on the floor to give artificial respiration and put the spoon in my mouth so that she would not swallow her tongue. It was terrible to see the person you love more than life, the person you are ready to die for, the person you are ready to kill for, helplessly lying on the floor in a fit. When she woke up, she did not recognize me. Then I realized that I had destroyed something beautiful. It was my fault. "

Blake also claimed that he knew in advance that he would have to go to jail. Recall that the court found him guilty and sentenced to 27 months in prison.

“I knew that I would go to jail, - he says, - I thought I would go to jail for five years, no less. I just could not believe that after our wonderful marriage, after the happiest days in my life, I would have to part for a long time with her. I knew I wasn’t fit for Amy — she should be dating some pop star or famous actor, not a drug boy. I cut my hands when I began to realize that we had crossed the line with drugs. when she saw me covered in blood. And since she is loyal and crazy about our love - like Romeo and Juliet - she decided to cut her hands too. "

While Blake was serving his sentence in prison, Amy admitted that she slept with her manager's assistant, Alex Haynes.

“They started taking heroin together,” Blake continues, “They broke me when I was in prison. It was terribly hard and painful. I can tell it was Alex’s fault. When Amy confessed that she had cheated on me, she cried hysterically. I asked her if she loved me and she whispered through her tears “yes, yes, yes.” I forgave her and tried to calm her down, saying that soon I would be released from prison and we would never part.

Blake claimed to have filed for divorce "for her own good."

“Now I have to act not as an egoist and a drug addict, but as a person who can sacrifice himself for the people I love,” he says. I realized that I had to help her. But I can’t, since I am the person who attracted her to this. All I can do is leave her. In order to completely heal, she must be alone with herself. I will never stop wanting Amy, loving her with all my heart and worrying about her. I am dependent on Amy. And I will do everything for her - including parting. I am not interested in her money, I will divorce her and leave with that, with than came. I offered her to sign a marriage contract before the wedding, but she refused. "

Blake also claimed that he overcame his addiction and cleared himself of drugs:
“Yes, I’m clean,” he says, “I live drug-free. But I didn’t deserve it. I didn’t deserve the fact that I am now undergoing treatment in rehab and it is going well. This should have happened to Amy, not to Me. She deserved a new life, from scratch. Without crack and heroin, Amy would write great music, and I would be doing my work in the production industry. But because of drugs, we lost our normal life. Amy lost her way. I know that she doesn’t realize how unhappy and lonely she is. She is only 25 years old, she is a fantastically talented singer and should be doing well. I know that drug dealers do not stop harassing her. It’s incredible how the police turn a blind eye to their work. "

At the end of the candid interview, Blake spoke about his dream:
“I dream that one day fate will bring Amy and me back together when she’s drug-free,” he adds. “In my ideal world, Amy and I would live in a lovely home with our two children. I can't even imagine that this girl is actually a wonderful wife, a great hostess and an incredibly beautiful person. Sometimes I stare at her when she just cooked my breakfast. But because of drugs, we can not live a normal life together. And that's why I have to let her go. "

In March 2011, after undergoing a course of rehabilitation therapy, the singer in her last interview stated in an interview with Look magazine that she had managed to end drugs and, after a three-year hiatus, she was ready to release a new album.

Amy Winehouse admitted in an interview that she finally managed to cope with her harmful addictions - alcoholism, drug addiction and smoking. The singer had been actively involved in music for several months and was ready for the release of a new disc, the first in three years.

"I finally escaped from Hell. When I saw my photo in the newspaper, I felt scared ... My skin was covered with spots, I was very pale and thin. And I thought: my girl, you must put yourself in order, otherwise you're going to die soon, "Amy Winehouse admitted honestly.

"I'm not an easy person. If only because I, for the most part, don't give a damn about everything.
I don't need anyone's help. Because if I cannot help myself, no one can help me.

Most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they will do in the next five or ten years. So: the time that they spend in these reflections, I spend drinking.

At some point, I got too stuck in alcohol. After all, with booze everything looks better. Like: watching TV, a glass of wine, cooking dinner, a glass of champagne.
I only write about those things that happened to me. About things that I cannot just drown in the past. Thank God, I'm prone to self-destruction, so I always have themes for songs.

I am not religious. Although I know that faith gives people strength. But I believe in fate and believe that everything happens for a reason, but for some reason. However, higher powers are not required for this.

Making music is like going to a dinner party: you have to act gradually, not lash out at everything.
I'm not the type to snatch my fifteen minutes of fame. I'm just a musician and I'm trying to be honest.

I agree that I am talented. But - and this is absolutely certain - I was not born to sing. I was born to be a wife and mother. And keep an eye on the family.

I do not condemn casual sex. I understand that there is nothing good in my approval of treason. But I think it's like smoking marijuana - nothing serious. Oh, damn it, so I got pierced!

There is no point in telling anything other than the truth.

Sex is just sex. But don't let someone get too close to you.
The first time I kissed was at 11 or 12. It was a boy named Chris - Greek by birth - and he is now gay.

The world is full of straight men who look like little naughty sluts, and there are also a lot of gay men who, like, tell you "come on, I'll carry this" or "put on my jacket." And you start thinking, "And why the hell do they love guys."
Do not swear. I hate myself when I say something like, "I'll never get plastic surgery!" After all, maybe I will have to do it - when I become old and all that.

If you put on my makeup too much, it will end up just looking like someone's aunt. And I want to be myself!

I'm not actually a fighter. But if I’m pinned in the wall, I’ll break anyone’s head.
It seems to me that the ability to fight does not depend on how big you are. It depends on how much rage is concentrated in you.

There are a lot of angry people around, and all because they have no friends. Communication with people - with mom, grandmother, dog - is the best thing that happens to you in this life. Excluding shoes and bags, of course.

There are never too many tattoos.

Women talk to each other the same way men talk to men. But women always pay attention to details.

If aliens have anything like a sense of humor, the way we have sex should probably make them laugh the most.

The biggest mistake a parent can make is conceiving a child to bad music.

I can't even believe that I really received all these awards.
Controlling the madness isn't hard at all. "

But again there was a scandal ... In June 2011, Emmy Winehouse canceled her European tour after the scandal in Belgrade. The concert was attended by about 20 thousand spectators. The singer was on stage for 1 hour and 11 minutes, but she did not sing. At the beginning of the concert, she greeted Athens, then the audience in New York, stumbled, talked to the musicians, tried to sing, but ... could not perform a single song ...

Amy Winehouse was one of the most successful British pop stars. The singer gained worldwide fame thanks to the multi-platinum albums Frank and Back to Black. She has received five Grammy awards, including Best Song of the Year, Debut and Best Pop Album (Back To Black). According to the Sunday Times, Winehouse was the tenth richest musician in Britain under 30. Her fortune was estimated at £ 10 million (about $ 16.5 million). Despite her scandalous behavior and problems with the law, Amy was called "the voice of a generation" and one of the most talented vocalists of our time.

This post is in memory of Amy. True connoisseurs of music will forever remember her talent.

10. At the age of 10 Amy had her own group - Sweet-n-sour. What's unusual is that it was a rap group. “Of course, I was sour (sour) in the duet,” Winehouse recalled of those times. Already in the photographs of children and youth, a rebellious spirit is visible.

9. At the age of 12, Amy was expelled from the most prestigious theater school of Sylvia Young in Marybourne for nose piercing and disobedience. Already in childhood, Amy showed her hooligan character.

8. The father left the family quite early, but this did not prevent Amy from getting a tattoo “Daddy’s girl” on her arm, which means “Daddy’s daughter”.

7. Blake Fielder-Civil was more than just Amy's husband. As the singer herself said, he was in a sense a muse for her. But their life cannot be called happy - Winehouse now and then ended up in clinics with a diagnosis of nervous exhaustion.

6. In 2008, a video appeared on the Internet in which Winehouse allegedly smokes crack. Then Universal made a statement that Amy needed to urgently go to a drug treatment clinic.

5. She became the first Jewish woman to organically fit into rap culture. Her creativity and undeniable talent have been noted by such famous rap artists as Pharoah Monch and Jay-Z, who remixed "Rehab".

4. Winehouse entered the Guinness Book of Records as the first and last British singer to receive five Grammy awards at a time.

3. Before her death, Amy did not take any alcohol or drugs for several weeks. She told her father, “Dad, I've had enough to drink. I can’t look you and the other family members in the eye anymore. ” She was happier than she had ever been in recent years.

2. Amy's mom once said that she didn't think Amy would die a natural death. Moreover, she believed that it was drugs that would cause her daughter's death.

1. Unfortunately, the cause of death of the greatest British singer of our time is still unknown. Various assumptions have been made, but the police have nothing concrete to say. Amy Winehouse died all alone at the age of 27 ...

Blake Fielder-Sivel finally visited his ex-wife's grave, almost three years after her death. The singer died in July 2011 from alcohol poisoning at the age of 27, but Blake did not find the courage, he said, to come to her burial site.

And so, well prepared, taking a photographer with him, he visited the cemetery Edgwarebury lane in North London, where Amy is buried next to her grandmother Cynthia Levy. We must pay tribute, he spent about two hours near the grave of his wife, sometimes sitting right on the asphalt.

The only embarrassing thing is that it passed right through the graveyard PHOTOSESSION .

Blake posed right in the cemetery for a photographer

It should be noted that the marriage of Amy and Blake has always caused controversial feelings among the singer's fans. They were arrested several times while being caught with drugs. And after all, it was he who put Amy on heroin, which Blake honestly spoke about in one of his interviews last year on the Jeremy Kyle Show.

Amy and Blake got married in 2007 after two years of dating

“Yes, it happened through my fault. I myself gave her the first time to try heroin after visiting one of the nightclubs. At that moment I did not think that she would start taking it without me, I didn’t think about anything at all. Later we got used to using heroin after going to clubs ... ". Interestingly, Amy's parents do not blame him now for the death of their daughter. According to them, they forgave him and consider him only indirectly guilty of the tragedy.