Amy Winehouse Praised By Father
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Posted 04 June 2010 - 09:31 AM
Amy Winehouse Praised By Father
Amy Winehouse's father Mitch Winehouse has praised the troubled singer for managing to stay off drugs for 18 months.
Amy Winehouse is a "hundred thousand per cent" better.
The troubled singer - who has previously battled drug addiction - has delighted her family with the progress she has made in her battle to stay clean and is now ready to relaunch her career.
Her father Mitch Winehouse said: "She's not a write off. She'll show that on the next album. Talk is cheap, we'll have to wait and see. Amy's a recovering addict. And she's been recovering now for at least 18 months. Do you know how difficult that's been for her?
"I know generally people want her to do well but there's also an element that feed it and perpetuate it. I know what the reality is and its good. She's a hundred thousand per cent better."
Mitch also admitted he regrets speaking about his daughter's problems in public, but thinks his family are much "wiser" for their experiences.
He added to the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "There's parts of that I regret. But everything was being played out in the press and the only way I could redress the balance and explain to people was through the media. With the benefit of hindsight maybe I would have done things differently, Everyone got a little bit carried away.
"But we are now three years down the line from those horrible times and we're all in a much better place. Wiser, I think, anyway. It was a very destructive time. But with the support of Amy herself and my family and my friends we got through it and here we are now."
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Posted 04 June 2010 - 10:32 AM
#4
Posted 04 June 2010 - 11:47 AM
First of all, no matter what he says, the press will keep being the press. It's her dad, so he will always have only good things to say about Amy, but no one gives a crap about that in the media. Second of all, every time Mr. Mitch says something about Amy, he actually brings her on the front page again, which is pretty ironically, isn't it? Other than that, I don't actually believe everything the guy says, it's not been once when he was wrong, "She's not with Blake, she's been sober for a year etc". Its her dad, yeah, but I doubt he knows every single thing Amy does. He always has to say something about his daughter, in every interview, rant and so on.
I don't remember other dad doing the same with his kid being a celebrity, and there were worse stories than Amy's.
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Posted 04 June 2010 - 03:31 PM
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Posted 04 June 2010 - 03:35 PM
#7
Posted 04 June 2010 - 05:06 PM
It is quite easy to judge, to condemn even, looking at a situation from the outside; it is a lot more difficult to understand what creates and/or perpetuates a complex situation. I certainly don't feel the need to condemn Mitch, as he so clearly means well and is as honest as he can be, plus the fact that he and Amy have always had and still have a very close relationship. They are who they are.
Couldn't agree more, I know he loves her. It's a good example for a family, I'm not judging that. What I am judging is the need Mitch feels to always speak about Amy in the press. What would someone (else than us, fans) believe: a father that loves his kid saying she's 100000% better or the pics from 2 days ago where she looks drunk?
Sometimes silence is golden. (I'm not saying this to you, just about Mitch )
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