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Amy Winehouse ex acknowledges he had 'part to play' in her death

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on

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Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil said he’s come to terms with having “had a part to play” in the late crooner’s death in July 2011.

The Grammy winner was just 27 when she died of accidental alcohol poisoning.

Fielder-Civil, 43, in his first long-form interview on the “We Need to Talk” podcast this week that he was behind bars at the time of Winehouse’s death, but the two were in contact about potentially getting back together, and that “the divorce wasn’t the end” for him.

Fielder-Civil, who was married to the “Back to Black” crooner from 2007 to 2009, told host Paul C. Brunson it’s “not true at all” that he introduced her to drugs and continually facilitated her habit.

“I’m not shirking responsibility, but this idea of daily facilitator, no, I wasn’t the dealer,” said Fielder-Civil, who is now clean.

“Amy’s worst stage of her addiction was when I was remanded to jail for a pub fight trying to stick up for my pals,” said Fielder-Civil. “Amy’s addiction, that point, had been her and I together. So it was me more in control of how much we were getting. So I’d say, ‘We don’t need more than that, that’s enough.’ … When I was in jail, Amy’s dealer was still very much a daily presence in Amy’s life, and I knew that.”

 

Fielder-Civil alleged that Winehouse’s family and management also “knew it.”

He claimed Winehouse’s camp believed if he was gone, they’d “get rid of the problem” of her substance abuse issues, which “obviously didn’t happen.”

Had they still been together at the time of her death, Fielder-Civil said he would have had the wherewithal to “never just let her sit and get drunk all day.”

He said he and Winehouse talked “all the time” about getting clean but adds that they “didn’t see ourselves as raging addicts.”

While he’s “not OK,” Fielder-Civil said he’s “made my peace with [the fact that] I had a part to play” in Winehouse’s demise.


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