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It’s been 15 years since Amy Winehouse was discovered useless in her London house.
On the time, many blamed her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, for the descent into dependancy that ultimately claimed her life.
Now, Fielder-Civil is talking out for the primary time about his position in Amy’s remaining days.
In an interview on the “We Must Speak” podcast, Blake denied any wrongdoing, insisting that “Amy had company” proper as much as the very finish of her life.
“My stance now’s that I do know lots of people, particularly folks studying media 20 years in the past, would have an concept that Amy’s passing is my duty,” he stated.
“As I’ve all the time stated, I by no means shirk from any duty. If I’ve completed one thing, I’ll put my hand as much as it.”
Blake recalled assembly Amy at a pub in London in 2001, and he remembered believing that she was a “lovely girl.”
Whereas they descended into extra critical substance abuse collectively, Blake maintains that he didn’t lead Amy down that path.
“Amy herself had company. And that’s by no means in any respect disrespecting her by saying that, however Amy did what she wished to do,” he stated.
“And despite the fact that the consuming had began to harm her, she carried on… She’s really a really sturdy girl.”
To the top, he says, he regarded Amy as his finest pal.
“These are recollections that are onerous for me to revisit. It’s onerous for me, ‘trigger she’s not right here nonetheless. That was my finest mate, and we have been pleased. And the medicine was a aspect of it, ultimately,” he stated.
“[But] our love had nothing to do with dependancy. And dependancy had nothing to do with our love. That’s the place it went. It wasn’t who we have been.”
Fielder-Civil admitted to giving Winehouse heroin for the primary time, however he says they have been each equally complicit in each other’s substance abuse.
He notes that Amy’s dependancy was really at its worst whereas he was briefly imprisoned for a bar battle.
“I by no means blamed an individual that gave me medicine for the primary time. I’ve by no means tried to place that on anybody. Why would I?” he stated.
“I by no means understood, do these folks suppose that I compelled Amy to do medicine? That’s simply not what occurred… I’m not shirking duty, however this concept of every day facilitating, no. I wasn’t the vendor.”
Winehouse and Fielder-Civil divorced in 2009, however they remained shut till her dying, talking usually throughout his incarceration.
Blake was in jail when Amy handed away from alcohol poisoning, however he insists that he “would’ve by no means in one million years have let her simply sit and get drunk all day.”
He was unable to attend her funeral on account of his imprisonment.