It's probably safe to say that using the phrase "troubling news" in the same breath as the name "Amy Winehouse", these days, is tantamount to a tautology, but if you'll forgive me, today there is some genuinely troubling news in the Winegums camp: "friends" (who no doubt took some time out from hanging with "former colleagues" and chatting to "a source" to bring us the news) are concerned that Amy may have sustained brain damage after a series of drug overdoses. And since it seems that these days Amy has, ahem, medical emergencies as often as she pops down to the chippy for dinner, there's a good chance these "friends" may be onto something.

The singer, 24, suffered two major overdoses, with such bad convulsions that they were "like a scene from The Exorcist".

 

[...] The pal yesterday said: "The future is bleak, bleak, bleak.

"Mitch does everything he can to protect his daughter - but his 'explanation' for Amy's hospital dash in July was just simply untrue.

"She had smoked an inhuman amount of hash which resulted in acute cannabis poisoning. You have to take a s***load of pot to suffer that severe a reaction.

Oh dear. There's not really much you can do with stuff like this, is there? Surely it's time for an intervention or something like it? Can Allison the now reformed Walking On Sunshine toluene freak be brought in as a sponsor or something?

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