Throughout all her bad times, Amy Winehouse has been focused like a hawk on one thing and one thing only.
And that's performing at the Grammy this weekend. Amy Winehouse is up for six trophies and she also knows that performing will bring her an insane amount of exposure, leaving more people than ever before whispering plaudits like "Is she OK?" and "My God, what's happened to her teeth?"
But Amy Winehouse might not be able to go to the Grammies this weekend, and that's because the police have just decided to talk to her about the video of her honking on her crack pipe like it was going out of fashion.
The Grammys are taking place this weekend, and the prerequisite number of godawful performances are ready to go. There's the Beyonce/ Tina Turner duet, which will finally give the world a before and after image of what Beyonce would look like if you kept her held down in bath water for three years. Then there's a chance that Michael Jackson will perform at the Grammys, although by 'perform' we probably mean 'spin around twice slowly while one of the Black Eyed Peas sings a line from Man In The Mirror.'
And then there's the performance that everybody's looking forward to – the Amy Winehouse performance. You see, Amy Winehouse is up for six Grammys and there's nothing she'd like more than to mark this achievement by performing during the ceremony. And if you ask her really nice, she might even sing in tune, tighten up her diction and not call the song to a halt so she can threaten the millions of viewers to a fight.
But before any of that, Amy Winehouse needs a visa to travel to America, something which might have been buggered up by that video of her supposedly smoking crack – not least because the police are now interviewing her about it. The Sun reports:
Amy Winehouse’s dream of singing at The Grammys this weekend could now be wrecked – after police quizzed her yesterday about smoking crack cocaine… Officers went to North London’s Capio Nightingale clinic to grill the star for two hours. A complaint had been received about Amy’s drugs binge exposed by The Sun last month. She was filmed smoking crack after taking cocaine, ecstasy and Valium. A source revealed last night: "She was not arrested. She is co-operating with police."
Now, this might not be as much of a problem as it's being made to be. After all, when Kate Moss had a chat with police after that newspaper photo of her apparently snorting cocaine was released, all she did was flutter her eyelashes and she was released. Granted, that might have been because she's a supermodel and not a funny-looking toothless fairground worker who gurgles instead of speaks, but perhaps Amy Winehouse will still manage to overcome this.
And if her raw feminine sexual power won't do the trick, then maybe Amy Winehouse needs to remind the police and the American customs officials what they're at stake of losing if she's not allowed to perform at the Grammys. If you keep Amy Winehouse in England, there's every chance that she'll do an album of Christmas carols with Mika. And that'll be on your heads.
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