Oh, and Cheryl Cole's 'fit' apparently - lol.
http://www.newsofthe...annel=NOTW:News
She sounds good! and happy!
Edit: Here's the text of some of the call:
"Hi, my name's Amy. May I call you Dan?"
That's the opening to the strangest call of my life as AMY WINEHOUSE phoned the XS hotline to chat about love, music, friendship and even fancying CHERYL COLE.
The music superstar wasn't back to full form as she slurred, stumbled and cackled through the half-hour chat everyone wanted. But there were some glimmers of hope from the recovering drug addict who had been on death's door just a year ago. First, Wino revealed she considers her getaway in St Lucia her official home, rather than her old haunt in Camden, north London.
But the beehived 25-year-old vowed to stay in the UK to (finally) record her new album - sung in English, rather than the Caribbean island's native language as she had planned.
Amy revealed: "I'm going to be in London for a while now. "I'm not going to go HOME (to St Lucia) for a while. I've got a lot of stuff with my record company to sort out. This is a new chapter for me. I've got some things we're very excited about, definitely. I like being back."
I also asked the Back To Black singer if she's looking for someone to special to replace ex-husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL. She replied testily: "Again you read my mind. No I'm really NOT looking for a boyfriend." My XSclusive pictures tell a different story, above, as Amy gets close with one of her bodyguards over drinks in Camden before we spoke. But she denied there's anything going on.
Wino also offered some advice for getting over a heartbreak, in an obvious reference to Blake, by saying: "Cry yourself to sleep cos that usually helps."
Then things got odd. When I asked her to chat about her favourite TV show, The X Factor, she began rolling around her kitchen laughing hysterically as she prepared a chicken dinner. She joked: "What does X Factor mean? I thought you meant my ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, I wasn't sure." Only a mention of Ms Cole cheered her up as she yelled in her deep Cockney accent: "I know Cheryl, she's the fit one!" But Amy turned serious as she spoke about how the only person in the world she can trust is her best friend - a 13-year-old called Dionne Bromfield who she has made the first signing to her new record company. "I've missed Dionne since I've been in St Lucia. Very much," Amy admitted.
She said her teenage goddaughter is the first person she turns to for help. She explained: "All the time I'll come to her and say, 'Dionne, I don't know what to do about this'. "She'll say something to me that makes complete sense. "Me and Dionne are best friends. We're not just godmother and daughter, we're best friends. "All I do with Dionne is play guitar with her and sing with her. And kiss her and cuddle her." Amy is currently in the midst of a highly sensitive divorce from Blake, who wants up to £6million of her fortune.
But she's the first to concede money is not at the forefront of her mind. "I went into business about seven years ago when I first signed my publishing deal. But I'm not good with that side of things, I'm good at the creativeness," she said. "The record company director is me. But all me and Dionne do is creative, we're not good at dealing with business. That's not us. That's bulls***." During a surprisingly lucid moment she insisted: "Dionne is my first signing. It's important to me that everything goes the way it should go and that she's comfortable with it."
And then, after going from aggression to hysterics to complete madness and back again, Amy has to get dinner out of the oven. But she can't resist a final wicked piece of humour as she giggles: "Darling listen, you've probably got more ex-boyfriends than me! "It's been lovely. We're cooking some chicken so we've got to go. You're not invited. God Bless! Bye!"
Yes, the Wino whirlwind is most definitely back!
Edited by Lainey, 09 August 2009 - 01:17 AM.
