Amy Winehouse’s mom: “Amy could be dead within the year”

Amy Winehouse's anxious mother Janis is preparing for the worst for her troubled daughter.

“I've already come to terms with her dead,” she said in a startling interview in Britain's Sunday  Mirror newspaper. “I’ve steeled myself to ask her what ground she wants to be buried in, which cemetery. Because the drugs will get her if she stays on this road.”

The 24-year-old 'Back to Black' star checked into rehab last Thursday after The Sun newspaper released a video of her apparently using a crack pipe.

“I've known for a long time that my daughter has problems,” Janis said. “But seeing it on screen rammed it home. I realize my daughter could be dead within the year.”

Janis said her daughter will be honored at next month’s Grammys, “but part of me thinks she won't be alive by then.

“I look at Heath Ledger and Britney. She's on their path.

“It's like watching a car crash - this person throwing all these gifts away".

By Owen Williams, Jan 29 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy