Its the absolute best thing for her though which is good, if she never makes another album again i dont mind so long as the woman gets the help she so desperately needs

I'm not sure I can see her getting help but I'd hope she would

So do I Kerry, I hope at least the press wont keep following her (I'm not saying that she doesnt want that, but for her recovery it would be the best thing if they just blanked her completely)

Amy Winehouse was pushed on stage drunk despite not wanting to perform in Belgrade, according to a witness backstage.

Winehouse was booed at the concert over the weekend after slurring the words to her songs and appearing lost and incoherent while on stage in Belgrade.

The 27-year-old singer has subsequently cancelled all of her remaining European tour dates following the incident, with her team adamant to help the star return to health.

However, Ana Zoe Kida - whose group Zemlja Gruva shared the bill with Winehouse in Belgrade - told The Sun: "Four British bodyguards simply pushed her to step up on stage.

"She did not want to and was making a scene trying to escape them. It was distressing to see, she obviously needed help."

Source: DS

:(

Sounds very much like the youtube clip I saw: staggered onto stage, went over to cuddle into band member, staggered toward speaker, tried to take shoe off, sat on speaker (back to audience), took one shoe off, tried to stand up, staggered all over, tried to take shoe off, bend double to steady herself on speaker. took shoe off chucked it towards audience, went over to 2nd black band member (all the while, band were trying to play her in with drummer - trying hard to smile which then dissapated), this 2nd backing singer that she went to cuddle, he gently grabbed her hand and asked if she was okay. He leads her toward the mike...... then the incoherent rambling started - with her sniffing and wiping under her nose, then picking at her right arm - then started clawing at her left arm.

Completely and utterly out of her head - and I defy anyone to say it was just booze.... the clip showed her looking right into the 'camera' that was taking this particular clip - and her eyes were rolling all over the place.

Booze can do that. I'm not saying she's clean of everything else but I see nothing from her in those clips that booze alone can't do and by all accounts it's replaced crack as her big problem drug because it's the one she can't seem to quit.

Yeah, thats what I saw. Seems it (or most of the show) has been taken offline now

I'm not sure if she was just drunk or drunk and high or what. Definately had a skinful. Part of me wants to say we've all made mistakes. All shown ourselves up at somepoint and feel so sorry for her as she seems very isolated but of course you have the nagging 'try and sort it out lass' :(

Yeah, booze alone can certainly get someone in that state. I've been there many moons ago. Godknows how much vodka I'd drank on that night out but it was apparently fine to throw myself AT a taxi to stop it.....

I almost admire Amy for staying upright :joker:

I agree with Kerry and Pyramid and as Pyramid said on another thread, she is in need of serious help, sadly the people she likely has around her are not the people she really needs at this time in her life. How sad and what a waste.

This is going to sound really heartless...but I find it hard to feel sorry for people who are in that state via their own doing. And I dont think she wants help either. Needs it, yeah, but doesnt want it.

Not heartless. Just honest

I am a little mystified why she did it more than anything else. I mean, you know you're about to do a concert...... Dutch courage, fair enough but thats not Dutch courage

Exactly

Everyones meant to feel sorry for the poor little girl. When its her own damn fault. Of course they made her go on...people had paid to see her, and she will have known about the concert ages in advance too...not like they just told her that morning.

Actually, the more I think about it.... why didn't any of those backing singers/band stop her? Why did nobody at all stop her going on? Who on earth let her actually walk on that stage in the first place? Surely her fans would have rather had her cancel than humiliate herself? You can't tell me NOBODY saw she was in a state before she actually got onstage

Hasn't she only had one good album? Like I know she's done a few but wasn't it only one that got big? One could argue she was a flash in the pan anyway...

I've never liked her stuff or her really. Don't like seeing people crash though

I have a feeling her management etc. like her being a mess.

Keeps her in the limelight doesnt it. Not like she really has the talent to last without some kind of controversy :/

Just had a similar thought actually

To be fair she had the first critically acclaimed, high selling album and then the second ... critically acclaimed, high selling album. The debut and the breakthrough.

I'd hardly call her recording career inconsistent. It obviously stopped dead though.

I don't feel sorry for her except in that these people always have the wrong people around them when they need to have the right people there and because she knows them she feels safe with them despite all evidence to the contrary .

The people who let her go on despite her state, (and of course she herself is more to blame for even attempting this while she is still in the state she is),those people make money from her, they know Amy had stage presence to her strong fans at any rate, that normally would mean she could do almost anything and get away with it,they will have thought she would just be accepted despite the mess she was in and that would be that,it backfired heavily and I'm pleased it has.

Whether that will make her really throw all the bad influences out of her life and really get herself sorted I doubt that completely,however it will be the only way she has any hope though of getting anywhere near sorting herself out at all.

She has the talent but her own fault things have ended up this way, a shame really:(.

I've already said all that.

That's my opinion on her too. She's not really my cup of tea but I do like Back to Black, I just think it's ridiculous that people are still harping on about her being a trainwreck when she's been a trainwreck for the past, what, four years? She's barely done anything new musically in the past four years to my knowledge and it's just sad to see someone become more notorious for their problems than for their talent, when she is a very talented woman. But as others have said, some people don't want help and some people can't be helped, I'm not sure which of those two she is but I disagree with Eoin (I think it was) who said he hopes the press leave her alone - I think that might send her into an even worse frame of mind if she thinks everyone's forgotten all about her, depends on her perception of her own image I guess. She's tragic and I think she needs to be forced to go away for a very, very long time.

Amy Winehouse's ex-husband jailed over domestic burglary
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13880593

I guess that won't please Amy .....

I feel bad about my rather harsh comments on this thread. But I do stand by what I said at the time - people were getting bored of the constant reports about her recovery/decline/recovery/decline. I blame the media.

I'm sure eveyone feels justified in what they've said; smug, even. You know... how she chose to be like that, how she could have helped herself but didn't... It's very easy to set yourself up as judge and jury when you know nothing about her, her history or her habit. It's also easy to make assumptions from the security of the moral high ground. Of course, no one here has ever moved in her circles or has any conception of what it must be like to be young and famous. How many talented, creative people over the years have died through drink and drugs? Addiction isn't a new thing. If it was so easy for everyone to steer clear, why is there still a problem? Unless it goes deeper than that; unless the answer isn't as simple as "just say no", because if it was, there would be no addicts, no lives destroyed by drink and drugs.

The Arts is littered with addicts, many of which have given us some of the best art, literature, music etc. that we have. But they did it to themselves, right? No sympathy.

ooh

Haha, awkward. I didn't mean to the point of death, aah!

:shocked:

This thread is how most people felt prior to her death and now its "omg she was a leg end"

death is a great healer