Mitch Winehouse, late soul singer Amy’s father and the most popular cab driver in music history, has voiced his theory on what killed his daughter, newest entrant to the tragic “27 club”.
In an appearance on US chat show Anderson the Winehouse patriarch – who was joined on set by Amy’s mother Janis and Reg Travis (Winehouse’s beau at the time of her demise) – told Anderson Cooper it was his belief Amy was killed by a seizure as her body struggled to accept her withdrawal from excessive alcohol consumption.
Mitch asserts that, “everything Amy did, she did to excess. She drank to excess and did detox to excess… we really felt [she] was out of the woods.”
Despite a coronial report denying any existence of illegal drugs in the singer’s system at her time of death, Mitch confirmed that prescription drug Librium – taken to lessen the withdrawal symptoms from sustained alcohol abuse – was present.
According to Mitch, “The periods of abstinence were becoming longer, and the periods of drinking were becoming shorter,” but her body simply couldn’t cope with extreme detox. On the program – which debuts in the US for the first time today – the forlorn father admits, “there was nobody there to rescue her.”
