Amy Winehouse's father:
I forgive man who helped to kill my daughter with heroin



Amy Winehouse’s dad said he has forgiven the man who gave the late singer her first hit of heroin.

Mitch Winehouse offered an olive branch to Amy’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil and urged him to help others by speaking about the couple’s spiral. Since her death in 2011, Mitch, 61, has dedicated himself to the Amy Winehouse Foundation which partly involves training recovering addicts to go into schools and speak of their experiences.

He said: “I haven’t heard anything from Blake, I don’t know what he’s doing, I know he wasn’t well a few months ago. I don’t blame him for Amy’s passing, I wish him well.

“Blake is the kind of person who we send into schools to talk about the dangers of drugs. He has a story to tell and he could help many hundreds of young people through his story.

“Blake could pay back something to society by talking to kids and doing the work we do. If he wants to do that we will make it happen. Who better to tell that story than Blake? It would be incredibly powerful.”

Amy and Blake married in 2007 but the stormy relationship saw her descend into drink and drug addiction.

Last year, Blake told TV host Jeremy Kyle that Mitch urged him to end the marriage.
The couple divorced in 2009 and Amy died of alcohol poisoning, aged 27, two years later.

Blake, 33, also told how they shared heroin for the first time. He said: “I was smoking it on foil and Amy said, ‘Can I try some?’ “I might have put up a weak *resistance – the fact is whatever I said, she did end up having some.”

Mitch admitted life was still tough without his beloved daughter but felt the family had turned a corner.