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  • This Is Probably Why Amy Winehouse’s Father Doesn’t Like The Documentary

    19 May 2015 by Kiernan in Amy Winehouse, Celebrities, Drug Use, Movies, Music, Vibe
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    Amy Winehouse was many things to many different people, but it appears her father Mitchell may have seen her as dollar signs.

    The documentary Amy made its début at Cannes Film Festival late Sunday night, revealing a side to the singer that many were unaware of. Director Asif Kapadia managed to paint a picture of a troubled intellectual with an extensive knowledge of African-American music culture, a knowledge she used to shape the songs that catapulted her to stardom.

    The doccie painted a far less flattering picture of Mitchell, laying some of the blame for her untimely demise at the feet of her father. The Daily Beast reports:

    Mitchell Winehouse, who emerged as a rather doting benign father in many press accounts after her death, relentlessly exploited his daughter’s fame by formulating moneymaking schemes to enrich himself. Amyintimates that Winehouse was stung by her father’s absentee status during her childhood and the documentary depicts him as, at best, a highly ambiguous figure who relished Winehouse’s celebrity status while encouraging her to accept gigs that were injurious to her mental and physical health.

    …her father, despite staging a perfunctory “intervention” that’s chronicled in the documentary, appears to have agreed with the resounding “no” to rehab that’s immortalized in the lyrics of her most famous song.

    Perhaps there is more to be read into the lyrics of ‘Rehab‘ than Amy’s own refusal to seek professional help. Mitchell Winehouse has hit back at criticism saying that director Kapadia is ‘out to destroy him’, laying much of the blame at the feet of Amy’s former lover Blake Fielder-Civil. This from the Mirror:

    Blake has come out of this as a knight in shining armour. Blake introduced her to class A drugs, he is responsible for that situation. He is a proven liar, put in prison for perverting the course of justice.

    It does sound like there is some truth to those accusations, although even without Blake it seemed almost inevitable that the troubled Winehouse would go down that route.

    [soures:dailybeast&mirror]

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