If you're like us, you think Amy Winehouse is an enormously talented, even potentially legendary singer-songwriter who is pissing it all away. Finally, Rolling Stone's exclusive interview with the drugged-out star reveals her secret inner life and explains just what is happening to "our Amy..."
Among the story's highlights, an explanation of how this crack-smoking spiral got going:
Winehouse says all of this is the product of heartbreak from being separated from her true love, whose name appears in a little heart pin she often wears in her hair. "To be honest, my husband's away, I'm bored, I'm young," Winehouse tells me. "I felt like there was nothing to live for. It's just been a low ebb."
Amy ends up sounding like a total drug-addicted mess (surprise!) with a heart of gold (or "wood," as she quips) who may actually get it together when her husband (ever) gets out. But the more immediate feature looks dangerous, even though Winehouse still has it together enough to crack jokes at her own expense, including the below one, a little dig at herself for the racist ditty her husband captured on video:
It's 9 a.m., and outside the last paparazzi leave, shouting up, "Thank you, Amy!" "You're welcome!" she yells back, then she mutters, "You fucking gooks." And cracks up.
She thoughtfully calls me a cab and walks me downstairs, inviting me to join her a few days later for a private concert in Moscow, where she will be paid a reported $2 million to play for Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. (A day later, her manager rescinds the invitation.) After the show, the newspapers report that Winehouse was drunk and Abramovich's organizers were sent into a mad scramble to search for a replacement. They say she played hours late and without underwear.
Story via Rolling Stone. Photo via Metro UK.