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Smutek to uczucie, jak gdyby się tonęło, jak gdyby grzebano cię w ziemi.
She could just as easily have been wiping her nose with
a tissue; the footage is inconclusive. At least the Sun managed to get a clever pun out the episode, asking: IS AMY MIS-BEEHIVING? The same newspaper also claimed that, as
the tour bus left Glasgow, some clingfilm wrapped in burnt foil was thrown out of the
window.
Then news broke that a sixth man, Michael Brown, had been charged with
conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in connection with Blake’s case. However,
with Blake incarcerated, some of those close to her were keen to try to move her away
from him.
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‘Her friends are trying to pull her the other way now she’s no longer under his
influence,’ said one. ‘A number of them are over the moon he’s been locked away as it
gives them a chance to work on her – but she seems determined to stick by him. Her
father Mitch is keeping an eye on her as she’s so vulnerable at the moment and is known
for self-harming, so there are concerns for her wellbeing. Her friends and family are
worried she might do herself some harm.’
Amy’s uncle, Brian Linton, went as far as sending an email to the Sunday Mirror
saying, ‘We are still worried sick about Amy but now there may be a chance to break the
Svengali-like hold Blake has over her.’
Blake, meanwhile, was also trying to keep an eye on her, albeit from the confines
of prison. During a telephone conversation with Amy he said, ‘For the first time in
months I’ve been eating three square meals a day. I feel so much better. But you’re taking
drugs, not eating and now you’re fainting. You’ve got to eat properly and stop sticking
your finger down your throat. Bulimia’s taking a terrible toll on you.’ There were signs
that Amy was ready to take more care of herself when she signed up for a six-month
course with a yoga guru. ‘She loves the yoga, which is practised to music,’ said a friend.
‘The idea is it gives you a natural high and takes away the desire to do drugs.’
It was a week for people to come out of the woodwork and criticise Amy, using
her troubles for their own ends and pinning their own issues onto her. Even Antonio
Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, managed to put the
boot in, blaming her for poverty in Africa. ‘Rock stars like Amy Winehouse become
popular by singing “I ain’t going to rehab” even though she badly needed, and eventually
sought, treatment… A sniff here and a sniff there in Europe are causing another disaster
in Africa, to add to its poverty, its mass unemployment and its pandemics,’ he said.
While being held responsible for poverty in Africa, Amy was simultaneously the
inspiration for a photoshoot arranged with controversial Big Brother contestant Jade
Goody. So impressed is Goody by Amy that she and boyfriend Jack Tweed dressed up as
Amy and Blake for the photos. Goody donned a beehive and had fake tattoos over her
arm while Tweed donned a trilby hat, Blake-style.
However, what was ridiculous was the tabloid tale that held Amy responsible for
the killing of a hamster, allowing the Daily Mirror to paraphrase one of tabloid
journalism’s most famous headlines, screaming: AMY WINEHOUSE KILLED MY
HAMSTER! (This was a nod to a celebrated Sun front-page headline of March 1986 that
read, FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER, a claim later denied by both Starr and
Max Clifford, the publicist behind the story.) The story concerns Peter Pepper, a former
session musician for Amy.
One birthday, he received a hamster as a pet. He named it Georgie Porgie. As
Pepper and Amy sank drink after drink one night, he got Georgie out to show her.
Eventually, Pepper went to bed, leaving Amy still drinking. After a while, he got back up
and found Amy had drunk the drinks cabinet dry. Pepper, now a member of the band
Palladium, who opened for Amy at her Somerset House concert, goes on: ‘The next thing
I know, Georgie bites me, runs off and Amy says she’ll catch it. I was a bit suspicious
when she said she was good with hamsters. Just hours later, the hamster was stone cold
and hard. I don’t know what she did to it!’
He describes the whole experience as ‘particularly traumatic’, explaining, ‘Not
only did I have to deal with a dead hamster, but for some reason Amy had also managed
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to unplug the freezer and flooded the whole kitchen and utility room.’
Sounds like a great night!
Another great night was her next stop on the tour. In Newcastle she appeared on
stage forty-five minutes late, apologised ‘from the depths of my heart’ for her lateness
and gave a triumphant performance, which was received rapturously by the audience.
Crucially, ‘she seems to be reconnecting with the simple highs of performing before an
audience who love her’, wrote reviewer Dave Simpson in the Guardian. Having noticed a
young girl in the audience with a ‘fantastic’ beehive haircut, she passed her a present. She
also implored her audience to send a present of their own to Blake. ‘I’m going to send
him a bouquet of flowers. And I want everyone here to send Blake a red rose.’ She then
gave out his address at London’s Pentonville Prison, where he was on remand. After a
few drinks with her band, Amy went to stay with an aunt and uncle. They watched Hot
Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead.
It wasn’t only family who were lifting her spirits. Babyshambles singer Pete
Doherty was also in regular contact with Amy during this troubling period. ‘I speak to
Amy almost every day,’ he said. ‘She just wants her man back for Christmas. They’re
desperately in love. One good thing is that Blake’s got clean since he’s been in prison.