Dec 10, 2007 9:47 am US/Pacific
Winehouse's Mom Pens Open Letter
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Janis Winehouse, the mother of Grammy nominated British songstress Amy
Winehouse, wrote her troubled daughter an open letter in the UK's News
of the World. She pleaded with the "Rehab" singer to get her life
together.
"We were terrified after we saw those pictures of you earlier this
week, wandering the freezing streets of London at dawn in your
underwear," she wrote. "All I wanted to do was rush into those pictures
and wrap you up in a big, warm blanket."
Janis Winehouse told her Amy, 24, that attaining such great fame at
such a young age has "muddled your mind," and urged her to forget that
she's a superstar.
"You're also young and vulnerable. Remember you're just an ordinary
human being, no stronger than any of the rest of us. You think you're
strong enough to get through this on your own, darling, but you're
not," the elder Winehouse wrote.
She also admitted that Amy's jailed husband, Blake Fielder-Civil,
is not her favorite person, but assured her daughter that she would
never say anything about him that would hurt her. Fielder-Civil, 25, is
accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a pub landlord in June,
2006.
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