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Amy Winehouse has been watching Marilyn Monroe films to help her through rehab, claims her father. Winehouse is reportedly a huge fan of the legendary '50s actress and has been viewing the films on repeat since being admitted to rehab last week. Taxi driver Mitch Winehouse told The Sun: "Amy is very ill and is suffering horrific withdrawal symptoms - shivering and constantly throwing up. Her body is expelling all the rubbish. "One thing helping Amy is her Marilyn Monroe films. Amy loves Some Like It Hot. She’s a huge fan of Monroe and thinks she’s wonderful." Winehouse has been undergoing treatment at London's Capio Nightingale Hospital following the publication last Tuesday of a video, showing her smoking crack cocaine. Digitalspy

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London, Jan 28: Amy Winehouse seems to have started making efforts to get her life back on track as she is delighting doctors with her progress. The 24-year-old singer, who checked into rehab after a video emerged which showed her smoking from a crack pipe, completed her fourth day at The Capio Nightingale Hospital in central London on Jan 27 and seems to be making sincere efforts to sort herself out. “Although Amy is still taking each day at a time she has done the hardest thing in the world by going into rehab,” The Sun quoted a pal, as saying. “She has been ill and is withdrawing but at least she is sticking with it as she detoxes. “With her family’s support we are hopeful that there is finally light at the end of the tunnel as she weans herself off drugs. “She will stay in rehab for as long as it takes even if it is three or four weeks. “Nobody is saying it will be easy, but things are looking good at the moment and doctors are encouraged,” the pal added. (ANI)

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Back to Black: 9+ Love Is A Losing Game: 168- He Can Only Hold Her: 12

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LONDON–The weighty editorial page of The Times of London doesn't make a habit of devoting thought to the travails of pop singers, whose exploits now more than ever keep the red-top British tabloids afroth. It was moved to do so only once it the past 40 years, when, in the wake of Mick Jagger's imprisonment for unlawful possession of four amphetamine tablets it asked, "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" The line, borrowed from poet Alexander Pope, helped win Jagger's release with the argument that the long, over-reactive arm of the British establishment was poised to destroy an artist simply as a means of cutting the whole of 1960s counterculture down to a diminished size. But the editorial page was moved again this week by the real-time train wreck that is Amy Winehouse, saying the British soul singer's drug-induced dance on the window ledge of life is "as iconic in its fashion as the Jagger affair was in 1967." The paper again invoked the words of Pope, pondering if "there be force in virtue, or in song." But this time, it concluded the opposite: that in this instance there is virtue in force, and that calls for action. The Times urged the government to force the singer into rehab – the very thing Winehouse refuses in the lyrics to her best-known song. Unlike America's Britney Spears, a great many people recognize a great arc of lasting talent in Winehouse, who confesses to grown-up heartaches and hangovers with an unforgettably velvety voice The New Musical Express once described as "a cement mixer of gravel and honey." Unlike Spears, Winehouse is only just arriving at the top, riding the international embrace of a breakout album, Back to Black that has Winehouse nominated for no less than six awards at next month's Grammys. But if Winehouse awakens memories of both Billie Holliday and the Artful Dodger, the 24-year-old north Londoner parallels Spears as postmodern spectacle. Both occupy that rarefied space atop the minute-by-minute lists of most-emailed nothingness. What drove the Winehouse saga onto the editorial pages of The Times this week was something more surreal still, even by the invasive standards of global celebrity obsession. The Sun newspaper acquired and published shocking video showing Winehouse in the midst of a private binge, reaching for a glass pipe to add crack cocaine to a cocktail of Ecstasy and Valium. The images, taken by a mobile phone by a source not yet revealed and most probably sold for a six-figure sum to The Sun, became instant Internet fodder. In a matter of minutes Winehouse fan sites began filling up with postings begging Winehouse to get help – or for someone, anyone, to intervene. What would Marilyn Monroe have done had her entire audience intervened in her final days? Or Cobain, Hendrix, Joplin, Belushi? Would it have made a difference? In the case of Winehouse, the fact that the entire world today is a camera appears to have left her little choice. On Wednesday, a police investigation was opened to explore the video evidence. And on Thursday, two days after the images were made public, Winehouse put her career on hold and was admitted to rehab "by mutual agreement" after talks with her record label, management, family and doctors. "Amy has come to understand that she requires specialist treatment to continue her ongoing recovery from drug addiction," according to a statement from Universal Music. "All concerned feel that Amy must put her health before all considerations and will be by her side whenever and wherever they are needed." Thestar.com

AMY Winehouse's tortured genius was eloquently revealed late last year. At news she had been nominated for six Grammys, the high point in the music industry, sad Amy looked at her friends, and with a gentle, all-too-honest humour, she said: "I'd rather have six grams." Exhibiting the denial that perhaps drives his sister, Winehouse's brother, Alex, blames it on creative force. "If you look through history, that's the way it is for artists," he said on British TV. "For many artists to achieve great works of art, they have to struggle. They're free spirits and you have to respect that, otherwise it would be a very dull world to live in." But the world got a look at the down side of that philosophy, the tortured drug addict, when British tabloid The Sun revealed hidden camera footage of Winehouse sucking in crack fumes from a glass pipe in the midst of a drug binge. Now, at last, she has gone into rehab and her fans hope she gets the care she so obviously needs. Winehouse was the woman who had impressed Elton John during her concert last May, the pop great entranced by her soulful voice. "Amy is an incredible performer," John said. "That was one of the most exciting and greatest shows I've seen in many years." But here, instead, was a bleached blonde crack addict in a stoned haze, her home a cesspit of dirt. It is widely considered Winehouse's descent into her drug hell was influenced by her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil. Winehouse's mother, Janis, said: "I think he introduced her to them and now she thinks, 'Oh, this is good, this is OK'. She's still a child and I think it has overtaken her a bit. Thank God he's gone inside." Fielder-Civil is in jail awaiting trial for assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice after a pub brawl in 2006. At one point police also considered charging Winehouse before declaring there was insufficient evidence. "Blake and Amy are like two separate accidents waiting to happen," said Blake's mother, Georgette Civil. " Their meeting simply exacerbated everything that was wrong in their lives to the verge of tragedy." In a bid to reverse the decline, Fielder-Civil's father, Giles, reported to police one of the couple's entourage for supplying them with cocaine last year. "Drink, drugs and a history of self-harm is a worrying cocktail," he said. "I'm going to point out the Sid and Nancy comparison to Blake." That was a reference to Sid Vicious, who murdered girlfriend Nancy Spungen in 1979 before later dying of a drug overdose. The couple's troubles began last August when Winehouse went on a bender of heroin, ecstasy, ketamine and alcohol, her husband alongside her. They were persuaded to check into the exclusive rehab clinic, the Causeway Centre and the treatment was expected to last six to eight weeks, but they checked out and headed to a pub. On August 16 last year they went in to rehab again, but lasted only three days. "My son didn't want to come out," Fielder said. "But if Amy's insistent, he wants to support her." Days after their second rehab stint, they were photographed walking through London's West End, the graphic horror of their lives all too apparent. Fielder-Civil had scratches on his face. Winehouse was sporting bruises, her trademark black make-up smudged across her face. Blood had seeped through the fabric of her ballet shoes, revealing where she had shot up between her toes. By December Amy's drug woes had accelerated so much her teeth were falling out. A concert photo showing her in full voice also revealed she was almost toothless. At another concert, the crowd turned on her. Amy was drawn into a slanging match and walked off. The tour was cancelled. About that time, her father, Mitch, admitted she had begun dabbling in drugs as early as 13. As if to emphasise her desperation, during an interview in the US after she met Fielder-Civil, she carved his name into her stomach with a shard of mirror. Heraldsun AU

With her bird-like frame, collage of sailor-style tattoos and, most recently, the ever-present crust of suspicious white powder caked around one of her nostrils, it's safe to say that, for most parents, an Amy Winehouse poster would be an unpopular addition to their teenager's bedroom wall. However, in the past six months you'd be hard pushed to find a newspaper or magazine that has not featured Winehouse plastered (in every sense of the word) across the front pages as she hurtles at full speed towards self-destruction. Strangely, unlike other celebrities who have taken similar gambles with their health (Kate Moss, Britney Spears etc) Winehouse's career as one of Britain's greatest singing talents doesn't seem to have taken much of a bashing. In the same week she was rushed to hospital after a reported drink-and-drug overdose, her Back to Black was confirmed as the biggest selling album of 2007. Front-page photographs of her patrolling the streets in blood-soaked ballet shoes sat above captions listing endless award nominations. Where there might have been universal disgust, instead it seems the world is torn between pity for Winehouse's inability to take care of herself and admiration for her talent. While Winehouse is the first to admit that her behaviour is not an admirable example to impressionable teenagers - 'I'm not in this to be a f***ing role model' she told one interviewer - there does seem to have been an increase in the number of young women sporting her trademark heavy eyeliner, unkempt tangle of hair and even adorning their arms with the odd nautical tattoo. So what is it about Winehouse that makes her so captivating? The past year has seen several iconic figures nosedive into depression, addiction or an inability to abide by the speed limit, yet it's Winehouse who has kept our eyes peeled for news of her in the headlines, and Winehouse for whom many teenagers like myself sit with crossed fingers, hoping she'll pull herself together and bounce back. Perhaps part of her appeal is her honesty regarding her very obvious problems. So many celebrities appear to spend their lives trying to glaze over the rough patches in their lives to present a 'clean' image to the media - whether it be Victoria Beckham staunchly defending her 'healthy attitude towards food and weight' (though we've yet to see a photo of her tucking away a burger to put our minds at ease) or Lindsay Lohan rolling her Bambi eyes and moaning at how the press portray her as some kind of 'wild girl' when in fact she likes nothing more than a cup of tea and a good book. Winehouse, on the other hand, makes no attempt to cover up the mess her life is in, and you only have to read the pitiful interviews with her father to gain an uncomfortable amount of insight into the heartache that drug addiction, an eating disorder and a husband locked away in prison bring to her loving parents who wonder where on earth they went wrong. Honestly, I don't think any of us would want to swap our lives for Winehouse's. But maybe at times teenagers feel they can relate to some aspect of Winehouse's plight - whether they be going out with a guy Dad can't stand, or desperate to persuade Mum that a tattoo doesn't screw up your chances of getting a decent job. However big a mess Winehouse makes of things, hundreds of messages of support from her fans reinforce that there are still people rooting for her. For teens, it's a comforting message in a world that can often seem unforgiving - no matter how much you screw up, there will still be people who want you to shine. Whether she likes it or not, eyeliner sales have proved that Winehouse certainly has quite a bit of influence over her teenage fans. It might be easy for parents to view that influence as potentially dangerous or unhealthy, but perhaps the Back to Black album in their daughter's iTunes library doesn't reflect a desire to snort cocaine à la Winehouse, but to be recognised not only for the homework they didn't do and the pile of dirty plates and forks under their beds, but their talents and achievements as well. It may also reflect an appreciation of talent - yes it's been said a hundred times, but Winehouse has a talent that's far too rare, and hopefully one day soon she'll appreciate herself enough to make the most of it.

Back to Black: 7+ Love Is A Losing Game: 169- He Can Only Hold Her: 13

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Back to Black: 6+ Love Is A Losing Game: 170- He Can Only Hold Her: 13

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Following Amy Winehouse’s husband exclusive interview in today’s tabs slamming her dad, now her mother’s done one criticising the singer's husband. Janice Winehouse has spoken to the Sunday Mirror about how recent footage of her singer smoking crack has crystallised her fears over the daughter’s life. She tells the paper, “I've known for a long time that my daughter has problems. But seeing it on screen rammed it home. I realise my daughter could be dead within the year. We're watching her kill herself, slowly. “I've already come to terms with her dead. I've steeled myself to ask her what ground she wants to be buried in, which cemetery. Because the drugs will get her if she stays on this road. "She's invited me to the Grammy awards next month, but part of me thinks she won't be alive by then. "I look at Heath Ledger and Britney. She's on their path. It's like watching a car crash - this person throwing all these gifts away." And as far as Janice is concerned, it’s one person’s fault - Amy’s husband Blake Civil-Fielder, currently in jail awaiting trial on GBH and perverting the course of justice charges. “What I hope most of all is that Amy lives to make another album - and that it's all about her divorce,” she quips. "She'd never taken class As before she met Blake. He's a penniless user. But Amy just says, 'I love him, he's the one for me.’ She doesn't see that he's using her. Everybody else does." However, the 53-year-old sees some hope for her strong-willed daughter. “I see Amy as a survivor,” she explains. “She's like me. I like to think that her living close to the edge is her saying, 'I'll get through this. You'll see.’ “But she's an addict - when it comes down to it, all that really matters to Amy is Amy.” ENTERTAINMENTWISE

Amy Winehouse has three months to live, says Blake Blake's shock confession - Amy's become Zombie - £500 a day heroin & coke By Phil Taylor THE jailed husband of junkie singer Amy Winehouse has warned her: "Quit smoking crack or you'll be dead in three months." Speaking from behind bars in Pentonville prison, Blake Fielder-Civil revealed his biggest nightmare is hearing Amy has been killed by her habit. He said: "Every day I fear the prison chaplain is going to walk into my cell and break the news that Amy is dead." Now the News of the World can exclusively reveal how Blake: CONFESSES he and Amy became "like the Living Dead" while blowing £500 a day on cocaine and heroin. REVEALS Amy is so out of it on drugs she falls asleep during visits to him and has even turned up high to his court appearances. HATES reading in papers about Amy partying with other men while he is banged up. VOWS he has now given up drugs for good and challenged Amy to do the same so they can "grow old together." The Back To Black singer, 24, went into rehab on Thursday just days after a shocking video was released of her smoking deadly crack at her seedy flat in Bow, east London, while already high on cocaine, ecstasy and valium. Blake, 25, talking to the News of the World through his devoted mum Georgette, said: "I'm so relieved she has finally taken my advice after I begged her to go into rehab. "I even threatened her with divorce because I thought it would be the only thing to make her see sense. Emotional "My parents have both pleaded with me to divorce Amy and I told her so before she finally agreed to go in for treatment. "They think she's the Black Widow who will be the death of me if I don't end our marriage. But I'd prefer to have a short life with Amy than a long life without her." It was during emotional visits to prison—where Blake is awaiting trial over allegations of trial-fixing and GBH—that anxious Georgette, 45, and husband Giles, 44, pleaded with their son to divorce Amy. But in a moving letter to his parents, Blake rejected their pleas and told them: "Please give Amy a chance." Blake, who fondly calls his 44-year-old headmaster dad Daydreams because of his laidback attitude, wrote from his cell: "I made a choice with Amy and I am sticking to it. "You have to understand that she loves me—she always tells me, Dad—and I am so in love with her. "It's hard enough for me to think and feel that my wife isn't there for me. She is making the first steps to get better and I need your support so I can support her in turn." In a phone call to his mum, Blake admitted: "I'm disappointed that Amy has been taking crack and I'm pleased she got caught because at last she is going to get the help she deserves. "I want Amy to grab this opportunity in rehab so we can have a marriage and future together. Because the way she's going I really fear I will come out of prison to no wife. "I dread my cell door being opened and the chaplain informing me, ‘Amy's dead.' "I have that nightmare three or four times a week. "If I was on the outside I know I could save her, but locked in here I can't do anything." Blake admitted he understands why his parents say being with Amy could kill him. He said: "I understand their concerns. Drugs made me like a zombie. "I was also selfish, self-centred and cruel-tongued. "Amy also became a zombie. She was docile, sleeping all the time, because of the drugs. We were like the Living Dead. "But I have experienced a long period of being drug-free in prison and I want to win back the loving, happy woman I married before our lives were destroyed by drugs. "We started on recreational drugs like marijuana and thought we were both in control. "But after we married our drug-taking increased and accelerated with harder drugs. "We took cocaine, heroin and smoked crack together. Crack made me paranoid. I felt unloved and felt everybody was out to get me. "We then got into self-harm to relieve the pain. It's a childish thing we did. One would say, ‘I'm hurt' and the other would reply, ‘No you're not. I'm hurt more.' "It was a ridiculous situation and I haven't self-harmed at all since I've been in prison." Blake accused Amy's parents of being partly responsible for her predicament. He said: "They have laid all the blame at me and I know they could have done more to force her into rehab a long time ago. "I hate Amy's father, Mitch. My mother calls him The Fat Controller. "He is on Amy's payroll. They are all on Amy's payroll. What man takes money off his daughter? Mitch ought to be ashamed. "He should get off his a*se, get his little black cab out of his drive and earn a living or do something and save his daughter. Jittery "Now I hope her family this time will ensure she stays in rehab until she has beaten her addiction and can face the world again." Blake told how prison had forced him to kick drugs. He said: "The first day was hard when I was arrested. I got hot sweats, my heart was racing and I got very jittery. But after that it got easier. I have never been suicidal in prison. "I have used the time inside to get clean. I slipped up once in jail, failed a drug test and ended up in solitary confinement. "I feel ashamed by that but I've vowed it will never happen again." He admitted his addiction had been as bad as Amy's, saying: "Had I not gone to prison I could have been dead by now and so could Amy because we were taking so many drugs together. "We were spending £500 a day on drugs and were taking cocaine, heroin-and yes, crack-together. "It's a lot of money. A lot of waste. We were killing ourselves and Amy has definitely got worse since I've been inside. "Prison has saved me. But if Amy goes back on crack again I will be lucky if my wife's alive in three months." Blake told how pictures in papers of his pitifully thin wife "tear me apart." He said: "In my eyes Amy is beautiful. But she looks dishevelled and I must admit I wasn't keen on her dyed blonde hair at all. "She is thin, she is bulimic and she looks ill. Bulimia is deadly in itself and I've tried without success to make her eat properly. "But with crack on top it spells disaster." He also complained about Amy being unsupportive due to her drug-taking, saying: "I'm only allowed two prison visits a week and I've got to share them between Amy and my parents. "When Amy does visit me she is sometimes high on drugs and falls asleep during our precious two hours together. "She has also failed to turn up four times on precious visits. It's devastating. "I also went a long time with hardly any letters. Then six arrived all in one go. Somebody probably put a stamp on them and posted them for her. She probably forgot because of the drugs. "I now read her letters over and over again." Blake admitted he was hurt when he discovered Amy had spent the night in a hotel room with her album producer Mark Ronson. Picnic He said: "I saw the pictures of her with Ronson in the back of a taxi and asked why she tried to kiss him. "I told her, ‘How do you think that makes me look that my wife is seen in the back of a taxi trying to hug another bloke?' "Amy replied, ‘Sorry, but you must trust me completely.'" Blake was also furious that Amy had been hanging out with another junkie pop star, Pete Doherty. He said: "Pete Doherty is a bad influence and I don't want her doing drugs with him. I have advised Amy to be very careful and stay clear." He was also embarrassed when pictures of Amy in the street in a red bra were published. Blake said: "I told my mother, ‘It's not very nice that every con in Pentonville is going to see my wife in a bra.'" But he is also terrified that Amy's lifestyle will drive a wedge between him and his family. Blake said: "My mum's visits have been immensely important to me and I know she wants me to leave Amy. I would never turn my back on my mother and I pray that I never have to chose between my parents and Amy. "So it is up to the two of us to get free of drugs and then everyone can be happy." Blake recalled a scene which today seems a world away from the seedy excesses of his life with Amy. He said: "The happiest memory I have is two years ago without drugs, having a picnic in Hyde Park. "All we had was a bottle of red wine and some sandwiches. But we were so carefree and in love it was just a perfect day I will never forget. "I just want to get that back again with Amy. Off the drugs she's a lovely woman, full of fun and great to be with. "But drugs turned me and Amy into little monsters. We would just live and breathe drugs. "But now I've got myself sorted, I really feel me and Amy can one day live together without drugs. When I get released I will do everything in my power to keep her off drugs. "I would rather die with her than lose her. But I would prefer Amy to have no pop career than become a dead pop legend. "It's my dream that we could grow old together."

http://inlinethumb48.webshots.com/15663/2785511460102267853S425x425Q85.jpg For the first time in 40 years The Times of London has editorialized on behalf of a popular musician. They call for government intervention to save the life of Amy Winehouse. This first pair of images show Amy pretty much doing the right things. Good health. January 15th, 2008. The facial muscles present normally. Eyes are alert. Expressive. Then the drug binge of January 17th occurred. The changes are shocking. Cocaine produces micro-strokes and patient confusion. Cumulative neurological damage can be severe. The Times of London notes a "a gruesome cocktail of crack, Ecstasy and Valium." "It is but another example of the extraordinary open self-destruction of this human being. Winehouse has, through her own often anguished lyrics, confirmed her predicament. ... Her derelict behaviour will end with an early post-mortem." http://inlinethumb36.webshots.com/39331/2693367730102267853S425x425Q85.jpg "The State's actions could save a great talent. She desperately needs to be brought into rehabilitation and, this time, to stay put there for weeks if not months. The means to that end have to be found." -- Hear, hear ! Indeed, Mitchell and Janis Winehouse have tried repeatedly to "section" Amy. One fault lies in the Law as it is administered in England and Wales. This can be reversed with one simple, well-crafted up-and-down vote in the House of Commons. Who is Amy's neurologist ? Note: image lower-left is January 18th and lower-right is a week later. A stroke patient with no treatment. Where is government ? Why prevent competent medical care related to drug poisoning with out of date laws ? "Virtue in force" is appropriate to safeguard any such patient. These efforts from the parents were turned down on an argument that her life is not at risk. (I did not make that up.) Apparently the English psychologists or doctors in charge of drug treatment discount both overdoses and these cocaine-induced impairments. http://www.drugabuse.gov/ http://ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalogNIDA -- the Drug Abuse book. The science on these matters was settled with post-mortem tissue samples -- microscope slides with appropriate staining techniques -- some 25 years ago. Brain tissue is damaged irrevocably with both continuous and with binge use of cocaine. Microscopic strokes kill tissue. An MRI is indicated (plus a PET scan, if needed) and a neurological workup for stroke diagnosis. Immediate treatment is best. Full physical recovery is thought to require a 90-day protocol. 30-days to clean out poisons, 60-days to get tissue recovery and higher quality sleep, and 90-days for development of coping skills and defensive tactics. Involuntary committal is commonly justified by threats to life or to mental processes. - found on the official amy forum

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Beretta / Sims / Rex Features Amy Winehouse's husband threatened to divorce her if she did not check into rehab. Blake Fielder-Civil, who is currently in jail following allegations that he tried to fix a trial, decided that tough love was the best way to convince the troubled singer to get help for her drug addictions. "I'm so relieved she has finally taken my advice after I begged her to go into rehab," Blake told the News of the World, talking through his mother Georgette. "I even threatened her with divorce because I thought it would be the only thing to make her see sense. "My parents have both pleaded with me to divorce Amy and I told her so before she finally agreed to go in for treatment. They think she's the Black Widow who will be the death of me if I don't end our marriage. But I'd prefer to have a short life with Amy than a long life without her." Winehouse finally agreed to check into a clinic on Thursday, just days after a video which showed the singer allegedly taking crack cocaine was released by a newspaper. In a phone call to his mother, Blake explained: "I'm disappointed that Amy has been taking crack and I'm pleased she got caught because at last she is going to get the help she deserves. "I want Amy to grab this opportunity in rehab so we can have a marriage and future together. Because the way she's going I really fear I will come out of prison to no wife. I dread my cell door being opened and the chaplain informing me, 'Amy's dead.' I have that nightmare three or four times a week."

http://i29.tinypic.com/3a9gg.jpg If you look closely you can see Amy looking out the 2nd from top window on the right. Joke

London, Jan 26 (ANI): Troubled English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse accepted that she has a serious drug problem after her boss, Lucian Grange, used a shock tactic to prove it to her. The Back to Black star will be seeing the world a lot differently after the serious dressing down she got from Grange. Lucian is said to have presented Winehouse with a huge collection of newspaper cuttings from around the world, showing her downfall. Lucian got his international marketing manager to find and copy every piece of press from around the world. It took the guy two days, the Sun quoted a source at Universal Music Group as saying. Lucian then laid everything out in his huge office and summoned Amy. He told her to have a good look, then tell him she hasnt got a problem with drugs. It did the trick, the source added. It would seem her boss shock tactic worked as Amy is now under psychiatric surveillance in a central London hospital after checking in to the clinic on Thursday Jan 24 night. Her pal Kelly Osbourne paid her a visit to lift her spirits a few hours after she settled in. (ANI)

Mark Ronson could lose his girlfriend due to his close ties with Amy Winehouse, according to a report. The music producer has angered the parents of his girlfriend Cosi Theodoli-Braschi, who are said to be concerned about his links to the troubled singer. "Cosi's parents are going mad over all the scandalous coverage Amy Winehouse is getting lately," a friend told the Daily Mail. "They know Mark is friends with her and are worried about what kind of world he is dragging their daughter into. "They think it's crazy and have asked her to dump Mark immediately. They're a well off, respectable family and they don't want to be associated with any dodgy, seedy goings on." Cosi has attempted to defuse the situation by telling her parents that she no longer sees Mark, but has secretly been continuing with the relationship. "Mark doesn't like having to hide his love for Cosi from the world," a source close to Ronson explained. "As far as he's concerned he works with Amy and has no involvement with her drink and drug troubles, so it should have no bearing on his relationship." Mark and Amy worked together on her 2006 album Back To Black, and have been back in the recording studio this month. Digitalspy