It's not uncommon for people to dislike their in-laws, although chances are your in-laws haven't tried to organise a mass boycott of your CDs because you keep spending the royalties on heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine all the time.
But that's only because your in-laws aren't Georgette and Giles Fielder-Civil. And because you don't routinely binge on heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine all the time. And because you're not a recording artist. Unless you're Amy Winehouse and you're reading this, because all that applies to you. Following her recent drug overdose, aborted rehab attempt and blood-soaked self-mutilation prostitute fight, Amy Winehouse's in-laws have called for her fans to stop buying her records until she's better. Incidentally, if you are Amy Winehouse and you're reading this, it might be an idea to stop now. You'll probably just get angry if you carry on.
It's common knowledge in these post-12 step days that the first part of overcoming an addiction is the admission that you have a problem. And Amy Winehouse knows this only too well – days after she almost died from a drug overdose, Amy Winehouse was out and about and telling anyone who'd listen that she's a heroin addict. Now, the second step of overcoming an addiction is coming to believe that a power greater than you can restore you to sanity – only nobody told this to Amy Winehouse, who appears to believe that it involves cutting yourself while taking more drugs with a hooker then freaking out and attacking your husband when he catches you before stumbling through London bleeding for the paparazzi.
And it's probably this that has made Amy Winehouse's in-laws speak out in public about Amy's problems. Well, either that or the way that Amy Winehouse went to rehab for about a millisecond before sacking it off to go down the pub. Either way, there's no denying that Amy Winehouse's life is being flushed down the toilet at the moment, with American tours being cancelled and Lily Allen being slightly rude about her. So that's why Georgette and Giles Fielder-Civil, parents of Amy Winehouse's shockingly inappropriate husband Blake have asked everyone to stop buying Amy Winehouse CDs immediately, as The Mirror reports:
Amy Winehouse's in-laws today asked fans to stop buying her records and said she shouldn't receive any MOBO awards… During the interview they said Blake and Amy were drug addicts and were in denial. They revealed they thought they were users of cocaine, crack and on occasion, heroin. "They don't see themselves as having a problem and are quite aggressive in their denial," said headmaster Giles… Giles said those around the couple, including Amy's record company, should be pro-active in helping them. To this end he urged Amy's fans to stop buying her records and send her the message that "her addiction and her behaviour are not acceptable."
Of course, it must have been an impossibly hard decision for Amy Winehouse's in-laws to go public with a call to boycott her music, and not helped in the slightest by Amy Winehouse's father to call the radio show where the Fielder-Civils were talking to say that Amy's fans shouldn't boycott her music. And we have to say that Amy Winehouse's dad has a point – after all, if the pubic banned music made by John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Stan Getz or Chet Baker while they were on heroin, the face of current popular music would be vastly different to what it is now. Although by boycotting Amy Winehouse, you'd basically just be boycotting a scrawny woman slurring 'no no no' over and over again like a drunk version of that talking dog from That's Life, so that's probably OK.
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Baby Milo says
Most of my money goes to drugs… who the fuck cares? haha (jk)
Adam Gade says
Is it just me or does she look like a scary, gypsyfied thing out of the movie Labyrinth?
JoelB says
For me, she’s the epitome of desirable cheap chantruese.
Truenessisathang says
Amy Winehouse hmm the name gives you a clue,,, Wino druggo, doofus, its all the same, she thinks i like the fact shes a drughouse, well I dont & a lot of peeps will agree with me, she’ll jus screw everything up like the rest of the chosen ones IE. Janis Joplin, Jimmy Dean, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Kobain, oh well heres a list its too ,long fc__in losers : (
http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html