“There was nobody there to rescue her,” Mitch said. The drug didn’t work though - and Mitch says Amy Winehouse’s cause of death was an alcohol detox seizure. Now Mitch Winehouse is clearing the air, saying there was one prescription drug found in Amy’s system - but it’s not what killed her.Īmy’s dad told Anderson Cooper that the singer, who long struggled with both drug and alcohol addiction, was taking a drug called Librium to help prevent seizures as she detoxed. *This article appears in the Jissue of New York Magazine.While the Amy Winehouse autopsy revealed no illegal drugs in her system, it pointedly did not mention prescription drugs. We identify with her pain but see her through the eyes of those cameras, complicit in spite of ourselves.
She had such a fragile talent, every note profoundly felt and hard-won, and Kapadia shows her repeatedly surrounded by paparazzi, whose clicks he amplifies to the point where they sound like the guns that took down Butch and Sundance. But the main culprit might have been fame itself. Her management’s decision (abetted by her dad) to push her into a tour that began and ended in humiliation was the coup de grâce. Winehouse understood all this - it’s in the self-immolating lyrics of “Rehab” and “Back to Black,” among other songs, and in her frank interviews - but self-knowledge didn’t help.Īmy is a celebrity-mongering documentary about the lethal effects of celebrity. Alcohol and bulimia are what ultimately ravaged her, but she also followed her strikingly self-centered lover (later husband) Blake Fielder-Civil into the world of crack cocaine and heroin out of a need to feel exactly what he was feeling. Kapadia doesn’t exactly point fingers - it’s more of a subtle nod in the direction of, say, Winehouse’s father, Mitch, who acknowledges an affair of many years during Amy’s childhood, laments his lack of courage in not leaving home until she was 8, and adds, “I felt that Amy was over it pretty quickly.” The evidence says Amy was never over it, thereafter carrying twin longings: to be entirely guided by a strong male figure and to defy that figure by hurting herself. Perhaps some kinds of genius are better off left mysterious, while the circumstances of a death at age 27 are easier to recount. But the movie does feature a lot of jaw-dropping footage of Winehouse recording and performing, the important (and not always intelligible) lyrics superimposed in elegant cursive. I’d go with the latter, having learned more in two-plus hours about Winehouse’s death than about the wellsprings of her art - meaning its jazz, soul, hip-hop, and girl-group roots.
Amy Winehouse Predicts Her Struggle With Fame in Documentary Trailer
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