IllBredHen
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Just had a mooch on there and there's also her bras, cards and letters she wrote to Blake that I'm pretty sure she would prefer to stay private and a locket described as "one of her most prized possessions".
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clueless
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I don’t know how I missed your post but just wanted to say I intended this to be a rave thread and if you have any stories you’d like to share, I (and I’m sure everyone else) would love to hear them
Stillwater
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I’m not sure that was to do with being overrated though? More in the depths of a wretched addiction and being hideously exploited. Her talent was eaten up.
Venuslurker
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Despite her talent she clearly had severe self esteem issues her whole life, which unfortunately made her more prone to addiction and easy prey for people like Blake, and ultimately her dad in a different way too, sadly.
soph30
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Masses of chains like Pret now and all the food stalls are double the price and in glass boxes
and nothing unique to buy, just tourist tat. A lot of the music places I think have shut down
FrostyChops
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I am looking forward to this. I think we might get more insight into the Amy that wasn't dominated by drugs.
But l also wonder if she should be left in peace. It's been 10 years since her passing.
But l also wonder if she should be left in peace. It's been 10 years since her passing.
Yes! The frank era
it’s funny I can understand why back to black etc made her more famous but frank was so raw. God I miss her.I'm gonna watch the new film and make up my own mind. I think with the really devout Amy fans like the ones who run Insta fan accounts etc, they act like they own the Amy experience. I've seen so many rants about how true fans wouldn't watch the film an I think that's a lot of self righteous bollox. I've read all the books by everyone from her ma to her mate, I'll watch any film/docu aswell.
I think with Mitch aswell these accounts need to lay off the finger pointing and blame game especially now so much time has passed. He lost a daughter, they just lost a fave artist. I think it's telling that Amy's mum doesn't at all beef about/with him or apportion blame. OK so these intense Amy accounts hate him- but she certainly didn't. They need to give their heads a wobble. Everyone's wiser after the fact and Mitch has publicly stated he'd have done many things differently if he'd have had his time over again. Amy was a complicated, headstrong addict and even her nearest and dearest had to distance themselves at times.
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I think with Mitch aswell these accounts need to lay off the finger pointing and blame game especially now so much time has passed. He lost a daughter, they just lost a fave artist. I think it's telling that Amy's mum doesn't at all beef about/with him or apportion blame. OK so these intense Amy accounts hate him- but she certainly didn't. They need to give their heads a wobble. Everyone's wiser after the fact and Mitch has publicly stated he'd have done many things differently if he'd have had his time over again. Amy was a complicated, headstrong addict and even her nearest and dearest had to distance themselves at times.
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Would recommend. He didn't answer her last call late the night b4 she was found dead god love him. Hope he doesn't torment himself over that. When she was pissed she'd phone everyone all night, he'd already left the house in Camden cos she was on a bender and gone to stay elsewhere. She could be an absolute nightmare by the sounds of it. She out and out attacked him sometimes too. Can 100% understand anyone pulling away from the circus. How long could her friends have had all that in their lives heading towards 30, maybe thinking of having kids etc?
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Sideboard Bob
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I had tickets to one of her shows around 2007/8 but couldn’t make it, and I’ve always regretted it. But you’ve made me realise now that maybe it was for the best, it sounds like sometimes she could really pull it out of the bag for gigs, but other times she was clearly unwell, it would have been sad to see. Ugh that poor woman, the tabloids were all over like vultures her at that time.
Sideboard Bob
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Remember her famous ballet pumps? She would buy 20 at a time! A blogger in this video visits the shop where she’d get them from, it’s at about 10 minutes in. It‘s kind of heartbreaking, the shop still had her last order of shoes kept aside 
Compassionately_judging
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I remember watching that film./documentary about her and was so upset for a long time after.
Her friends describing hiding her passport and begging her father to help her, and her father forcing her to work. He came across terribly in that and I was shocked and really affected by it at the time.
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Her friends describing hiding her passport and begging her father to help her, and her father forcing her to work. He came across terribly in that and I was shocked and really affected by it at the time.
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clueless
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Thanks for sharing your memories, @Tweacle - I'm so envious you got to spend time with her!
Janis seems like a lovely woman and she acknowledges that she made mistakes as a mum with not being strict enough, not taking Amy's bulimia admission seriously etc... she just seemed to be far too soft with her and she admits to this, unlike Mitch who accepts no responsibility for anything, and tries to make himself out to be the World's Best Dad.
I agree, it will be great to hear more from her mum's perspective for a change, we never really hear from her, unlike Mitch!There’ll be a new documentary about Amy from the BBC soon, with her mum involved.
What‘s everyone’s thoughts? I think it will be lovely to hear more from her mum‘s perspective.
“The BBC said her story would be told in the new documentary "primarily through her mum", whose version of events "often differs from the narrative we have been told before".
Janis will be joined by family and friends, and the film will offer "a new female-driven interpretation of her life, her loves and her legacy", the announcement said.”
Amy Winehouse's mum Janis makes documentary 'to save memories from MS'
Janis Winehouse is to tell Amy's story in a new documentary on the 10th anniversary of her death.www.bbc.co.uk
Janis seems like a lovely woman and she acknowledges that she made mistakes as a mum with not being strict enough, not taking Amy's bulimia admission seriously etc... she just seemed to be far too soft with her and she admits to this, unlike Mitch who accepts no responsibility for anything, and tries to make himself out to be the World's Best Dad.
Ingognito.Queen
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Sounds like it is not an accurate portrayal at all.
'The convicted thug is understood to have first encouraged her to try smoking crack but this is not depicted in the film as Fielder-Civil is portrayed as an impish and cheeky north London ‘indie boy.’
One friend told the Mail: ‘It’s more like they’re a loved up Disney Princess and her Prince – Blake comes across as a charming and loveable rogue, rather than a thoroughly broken drug addict who dragged Amy into the depths of depravity.'
Amy Winehouse's pals say Back To Black director 'glamourised' Blake
The highly anticipated new movie premiered in London on Monday night, with Ms Winehouse's family present for the first showing of the blockbuster.
Revealed: The secret criminal past of Amy Winehouse's in-laws
The parents-in-law of Amy Winehouse, who have been busy giving interview after interview decrying the troubled singer's wayward ways, are guilty of some anti-social behaviour of their own.
The Civils sound like a complete nightmare. They attacked a football coach with car keys after he told off their son
I remember at the height of Amy and Blake his mum Georgette was always gabbing in the papers, much like Mitch. I did read their youngest son died recently of a heroin overdose 
so Blake's issues aren't a fluke in his family.
I think she would have been happy with a few children and a nice man. Blake was never any good for her. Two mixed up damaged people together. She did love him though.
FrostyChops
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Didn't they send her to Jamaica but Blake couldn't go and she had an affair whilst there?
I remember someone saying her 'promiscuity ' (
) was akin to a sexual abuse victim I think it was her neediness that drove her into new relationships / physical relations. She just wanted to feel loved.