Things clearly don't seem to be getting any better for Amy Winehouse. In a new video tape, obtained by British newspaper The Sun, the troubled 'Rehab' singer, 24, is seen "out of her skull and struggling to talk after sucking in crack fumes from a glass pipe."
And the singer even admitted that she had just taken SIX Valium pills to “bring myself down”.
Amy's journey of self destruction was revealed in a harrowing video filmed at her East London home last week.
The tape will no doubt horrify her friends and family who fear she could soon end up dead.
The horrifying footage also revealed Amy's squalid lifestyle as she stumbled around in a filthy vest surrounded by junkies and parasitic hangers-on.
At one point, Amy - who recently got rid of her trademark beehive, in favor of a new, bleached blonde hairstyle, is warned to watch out for smashed glass on the floor as she scours a bedroom for her kitten barefoot.
The dazed and confused star accuses a guest of taking the pet from a quiet room into the drug-fueled hubbub of her house party.
Amy mumbles: “If I was that cat I’d leave on my own accord — I’d call a cab. It ain’t right. This ain’t Toys R Us. They took my cat.”
A friend of the troubled singer said last night, "Amy is locked in a nosedive towards oblivion — she is killing herself. The video shows a woman completely out of control.
"Her family and her few real friends have begged her to pull herself from the brink many times. But here is proof she has pressed the self-destruct button.
"Her fans would scarcely recognise the drug-addled wreck in the video as the talented performer they love.
"We can only pray she will get a wake-up call when she watches the video herself and sees the terrible state she is in"
The pal added to British newspaper The Sun: “Amy is looking ill and dirty, and is so thin you wonder how much more she can take. She must get help.”
The Back to Black star - whose performance at this year's Grammy Award ceremony is unlikely to happen if she is unable to kick the drugs, threw the party at her trendy London pad in the early hours of Friday — just before she went to court to support husband Blake Fielder-Civil at a remand hearing.
Within seconds of greeting friends at the door, she greedily snorted powdered ecstasy from the corner of a credit card.
Minutes later, with her head swimming, she is seen on the video being offered cocaine.
A friend warns Amy not to take too much because the drug is from a highly-concentrated stash.
But Amy disregards the warning and hungrily snorts a clump.
The star then drifts through to her bedroom, where she she primes a glass pipe with rocks of crack.
She fires it up with a lighter and inhales deeply several times, holding the fumes in her lungs as long as possible to maximize the effect.
Amy's amazing voice has sold millions of records worldwide- but it is transformed into a weak, breathless croak as she tries to talk.
On a wall in the background is a wedding picture of Amy and Fielder-Civil, who is in currently locked up in London's Pentonville - awaiting trial on assault and perverting justice charges.
Pals ask her to go out with them, but she mutters: “I’d be useless to you because I’ve had about six Valium.”
Amy’s real friends believe she is now at constant risk of an overdose like the one which led to her notorious collapse last August.
One said: “Someone has to turn her around, otherwise a great talent will disappear forever very soon.”
As of this morning, London police have refused to discuss to matter. But something needs to be done (or said.)
At the age of 24, Winehouse has millions of fans, and no doubt plenty of young, impressionable kids look up to her.
It's people like Amy that glorify drug use. She's able to have a highly successful career and a bank balance to suit, yet all the while taking drugs, with seemingly no visible consequences.
Although Amy is talented, yes, I've bought her albums myself - I believe the only reason her career has been as successful as it has been of late, is because she's portraying the 'bad girl' image, she's taking the drugs, she's got the eating disorder. No one was interested in Amy Winehouse when she looked like this.
And the harsh reality of it, those that can help her, won't help her.
Amy's erratic behavior is getting her in the paper every single day - and like as the old saying goes: "No publicity is bad publicity" - Amy's album, Back To Black continues to fly off the shelves (It is the Number 1 selling album in the UK for 2007, selling over 1.5 million copies in the year.). Are Amy's record company going to step in and force her to banish her drugs use and curb her erratic behavior? No. She continues to sell hundreds-of-thousands of records because of it - they couldn't care less; it's business for them at the end of the day .
Amy is constantly being followed by paparzzi. Are they going to leave her alone so she has the chance to sort her life out? No. They make thousands of pounds of week selling photos of Amy - why would they give that up?
Are websites, newspapers, magazines, etc. going to stop promoting what she's doing? No. Because she sells papers, magazines and brings in nice amounts of web traffic (this website included.) Why would we give that up and lose out - just so she can get her life back on track?
The harsh reality is: no one cares enough to help. In this industry, (Music, media, etc..) everyone is out for themselves.
Oh, and another reason the paps are constantly by her side: they're waiting for her to wind up dead - because pictures of dead celebrities can be a goldmine. (Take Anna Nicole Smith, for example, a video of her getting CPR was sold for about $1m last year!)
Jane Moore, a columnist for The Sun, writes: "Amy Winehouse is a dead woman walking.
"The temptation is to drag her by her egg-yellow hair round a ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital and show her the children fighting to stay alive.
"To hammer into her thick skull that she’s lucky enough to have a healthy body and mind that she’s wilfully choosing to destroy.
"Surely, as such a danger to herself, the time has come to try to have her sectioned under the Mental Health Act?
"Looking at this video, it’s a simple matter of life or death."
Shaun Bailey, a Youth Worker, said this - and it's nice to know that I'm not alone in my sentiments. "If any boy I work with was caught with a crack pipe that would be the end for them.
"Amy should be arrested, for her own sake, and dealt with by the courts.
"Why should she get away with it?
"I don’t think too many young people will be impressed by what she did, but it normalises drug taking for them.
"They see Amy Winehouse doing well and winning awards, then smoking crack.
"She’s sending out the message that it doesn’t affect her career.
"Kate was caught taking drugs and her career prospered."
By Owen Williams, Jan 22 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
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