You know, the bulk of Winegums Watch has consisted of "Ohh Ammmyyyy!"-style pieces about the Troubled™ singer getting back on her feet and then falling down twice as hard again, then getting back on her feet again, and so on and so tiresome, but this past week has felt worryingly like it might be headed towards some actual news - and, like most things to do with Amy over the last year or so, sadly it is not good.

It looks like Amy's mysterious collapse - which everyone was quick (myself included!) to laff up and blame on the crack pipe - has led to a more sinister diagnosis. If we are to believe dad Mitch, it looks as though Amy has emphysema.

In an emotional interview the cab driver told how doctors have warned his daughter - who was rushed to hospital last week - that she may be forced to wear a permanent oxygen mask to survive if she doesn't follow medical advice.

'To think this could be my beautiful 24-year-old daughter's life is preposterous. But if drugs mean more to her than breathing properly, then so be it.

'But the doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her.' He said.

Winehouse collapsed at her North London home last week and was taken for tests at a London hospital by her father.

You know, I've probably said words to the effect of "this should be the wake-up call she needs" approximately 126 times throughout the history of Winegums Watch, but if those words ever needed to be reiterated, it would be now.

Here's hoping the name "Amy Winehouse" doesn't come to be associated forever with the phrase "tragic waste of talent", and that she gets the help she needs. For serious this time.

 

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