Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Pity Party At Pa Winehouse’s Joint

We’ve always gone in to bat when it comes to Dad Winehouse, aka Mitch, as he clearly has Amy’s best interests at heart (he certainly doesn’t seem to hail from the Culkin/Barrymore/Lohan school of parenting).

Well, he’s now come out and opined that perhaps some of Amy’s pain comes from the protracted affair he conducted when Winegums was younger (with a woman he would later leave Ma Winehouse, Janis, for and marry).

Mr Winehouse said he thought at the time that Amy had forgiven his deception and coped with her parents splitting up.

He told a BBC programme: “I should have left earlier, I should have left sooner. There was not really a negative response from Amy (when I left), but she definitely became a lot more independent.

“Perhaps deep down she felt her parents were splitting up, she could not rely on them to stay together and that it was about time she learned to look after herself.

“I thought Amy was over it pretty quickly – in fact it felt at the time Amy felt no effect at all.

“Maybe she could not articulate it in words, but she certainly did it with music.”

So, hang on, in talking about how he thinks he’s partly to blame for Amy’s troubles, he says that she coped well with the breakup? Hmm.

In any case, we’re pleased to see that Mitch and Janis are taking a more active role in Amy’s life after their misguided “we’ll just wait for her to come home” routine of a few months ago. Perhaps Mitch can have a few words with Jamie Spears about this sort of stuff.