Amy Winehouse's Father Thinks Daughter's Drink Was Spiked
So THAT'S what happened! And here I am thinking that Amy Winehouse either hurt herself badly or overdosed on something. Amy's dad, Mitch, feels that the recent hospital trip can be attributed to his daughter's drink getting spiked with esctasy by an unknown source.
"Mitch is furious. He’s certain someone put E (ecstasy) in Amy’s drink - and he’s determined to get to the bottom of it.
"He’s convinced that one of her hangers-on was responsible and he’s
waiting for a toxicology report to show what caused her to fit. If his suspicions are proved right, he wants someone to be punished.
He is seriously unhappy for Amy’s flat being a stop-over for randoms
and wants an end to it."
A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed no formal
complaint had been made as WENN went to press.
UPDATE: Amy's mother speaks!! She fears for her daughter's life. Finally a parent who can actually see the situation for what it is.
"I reached the stage with Amy where I planned to ask her where she’d be buried. I was serious. The problem is that Amy is so high-profile. If I want an update on what state she’s in at any given moment, I just have to turn on the television.
Amy’s problem is always in my face."There are a lot of people rooting for her. But I know I could turn on the TV and learn the worst."
Something like this eats into the family and I can see how it could tear people apart. No matter what hurt they’ve caused they’re still your babies. She’ll always be my little girl sitting at the window singing."
I actually had a similar thing happen to me. It's a long story. Click on the continue reading link below to read it.
I don't drink. No, I'm not kidding. The two times I did (in high school), I had to have my friend make me throw up (sorry Sylvia). Just isn't for me and I wouldn't want to put her through that ordeal again. :)
So, one night I went out with a bunch of my girlfriends to a club where we met up with some people. One of them offered me a drink and I declined. He bought it anyway. It was a Baily's Irish cream. He placed it in front of me and insisted. I declined... again. Another male friend of mine came over and downed it saying he wouldn't want it to go to waste. The man who bought me the drink practically ran away. A few minutes later, my male friend was convulsing on the floor. We had to rush him to the hospital and get his stomach pumped!!! The drink was drugged!! I will never forget that day.
300 points
Uh, I'm pretty sure you could drop a brick of heroin in a barrel full of Bourbon, ask Amy to consume it, and she'd still do it. I really doubt this girl is that susceptible to odd chemical interactions anymore. Time to stop blaming other people, Mitch. Your daughter's been chasing her own dragons forever.
300 points
whoa, that's a horrid story, vera, good choice of not having the drink. accepting drinks from stranges and not seeing the drink when being poured is not a good idea in general, I would say. I once had a similar experience. I had a few drinks and felt pretty good, then I got champagne from a "friend" of one of my friends, and after having drunk that drink I felt totally out of control, it was so weird, I was so glad when I got home, it was horrible, thank god I had friends with me. The day after was the worst day ever, I have never felt that sick in my entire life. I'm guessing there was something in that drink, because I can't imagine how a few drinks only (really just a few) turned me into such a mess. ever since that happened I have always been watching my drinks - from being poured till I had finished them. :)
22235 points
Sorry, don't buy it. Maybe Mitch is part of her problem, the man is delusional.
Oh please, Mitch! Maybe if AMY would stop using CRACK she wouldn't end up half dead in the hospital all the time! Talk about a parent in DENIAL!
300 points
Wow Vera. You're very lucky! And as for Mitch-- get an eff-ing clue!!!! Why would he continue to enable his daughter and not get her the help that she obviously needs!?!? If she's truly in recovery, she should not be going to clubs yet. It takes a lot of time for people to be comfortable in that scene and abstain from alcohol and drugs if they're really used to drinking/taking drugs!
1720 points
Oh my gosh, Vera! That's so scary! When my daughters are older, I'm going to be so worried every day!
yikes! scary story. i can relate. my "friend" gave me a drink of this stuff called "invigorate" and it ended up being GHB, the date rape drug. We both ended up in intensive care with tubes in our bodies. needless to say he is not my friend anymore. he did not try to do anything on my and i don't think those were his intentions, but still. it was TERRIBLE.
4065 points
Oh my gosh - that is awful Vera!!!
1935 points
Wow, how lucky for you, and I'm glad your friend is okay too, Vera! As for Daddy Wino I have one word... Denial.
I have another word - "Enabler"
5420 points
Amy needs help, not excuses!
Both my sister and my best fried were victims of GHB freshman year in college. My friend was hospitalized b/c she was so sick.
What Amy's mother wrote makes me terribly sad. You have to remember that all these f*ck ups we read about every day are someone's children. Heartbreaking. The only reason Amy is still living the life she's living is because she has a world of enablers surrounding her. There's no hope in that.
330 points
It happened to my best friend and myself when we were at a club, another friends ex boyfriend put something into our drink (we were sharing a drink) we were very lucky to have a group of friends that protected us they stopped the guy from following us out, and the police woman who took us home and did the report was really nice. I'll always remember how nice she was, even though I remember almost nothing else from the night.
Glad you didnt take the drink Vera. I had a situation just like that once...but I took the drink. Lucky for me I went home even though the guy was basically begging me to stay. Unlucky for me, I drove home. Ended up 45 mins the other way, and I dont remember a second of it. Then, snap...its like I woke up. I had to call my Aunt and she had to tell me how to get home. It was terrible. I am so lucky I didnt hurt anyone or myself. And now, I only go out with CLOSE friends and my boyfriend!
590 points
So just because she uses or used drugs of her own free will it is OK for someone to drug her? If there is even the slightest possibility it MUST be looked into. Just because she has made mistakes, that doesn't make her any less of a person!
People need to remember she is still a person and if it is suspected that she was drugged she and her family deserve to have it looked into.
22235 points
Except for the fact that her father probably pulled that story out of his you know what. He knows exactly what happened to her. I would say that story is 99.9% false and her father is the one that made it up. He probably has a dozen more where that came from.
410 points
Vera I'm so glad you're ok. If that drink did that to a bigger guy it certainly would have been far more potent for you, who doesn't drink. I hope he ended up being alright also. Personally, I think Amy's dad is in a serious case of denial. It's easier for him to make excuses for her and blame others than to face the reality that she's an addict. That denial will get her killed.
640 points
That is so scary. I really find it hard to internalize that there are people out there who would do such a thing. I'm glad you and your friend were ok.
I had a friend who was married to an ex drug addict and supposedly clean. We were driving with him at the wheel, his wife in the passenger's seat and myself and their two kids in the back. He announced that he needed to get some petrol (gas) at a service station and went to the toilet. We resumed driving and all of a sudden he had a seizure at the wheel. Luckily his foot did not ram onto the accelerator and my friend was able to grab the wheel and bring the car to a stop. We called an ambulance and found out at the hospital that he'd taken drugs while in the toilet. So great was his need for the drugs that he put at risk the lives of four others, including his children. He ended up being committed to a psychiatric hospital. As for Ms Winehouse, if she did have a fit, it could well be a result of the damage she had done to her brain from her own drug taking. It is understandable for her father to deny this when speaking to the media, but one would hope that when dealing with her, he sees the reality of the situation, instead of trying to blame it on some other person. His daughter can only be helped if she and those around her accept that Amy is her own problem. Only then does she stand a chance of recovery.
I dated a guy whose ex spiked a drink of his and offered it as a 'let's call a truce' kind of thing. He was stupid enough to take it (after she'd already tried to stab him during their relationship) and right away started feeling loopy. As he walked outside to get some fresh air there was a guy waiting for him and hit him hard enough to shatter his jaw and throw his body through the glass doors. His family moved him to another city the next morning; jaw wired shut and all.
i never noticed until recently that Amy Winehouse has astoundingly huge hair
615 points
That was a scary and cautionary story, Ms. Vera. Thank you for sharing with us. Whenever I go out, I always put a hankie over my drink and take it with me!
As far as Winehouse's drink being 'spiked'. That's a fairy tale. IMHO, Winehouse probably told her dad that, just to get him out of her face, LOL. But in recent reports, Mr. Winehouse is tell the press that he NEVER said that, and that he's looking for the SOB that's saying it.
On next week's blog, "Hide and Seek with Mitch Winehouse"!
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