Blake Fielder-Civil: I ruined Amy Winehouse's life
Blake Fielder-Civil and Amy Winehouse in November 2007 (Getty)
Amy Winehouse’s husband has admitted that he wrangled her into a life of hard drug abuse, saying she only smoked pot before she met him.
In a taped interview with Britain’s News of the World, Blake Fielder-Civil said he introduced Winehouse to crack cocaine, heroin and self-harming, and that he feels “more than guilty” for it.
“I dragged Amy into it and without me there is no doubt that she would never have gone down that road. I ruined something beautiful,” he said.
Winehouse first took crack when she asked Fielder-Civil if she could try some, he said.
“Crack is the nastiest drug. It makes you paranoid, unreasonable, edgy and totally suspicious of everyone,” he said. “But I was weak and an addict and I let Amy take some.”
Then, he said, their lives “fell apart,” noting summer 2007, when his wife almost died in front of him after a day-long binge of heroin and crack.
Fielder-Civil, 26, is serving time in a London rehab facility following his November release from jail. Winehouse, 25, was hospitalized at the end of the month for an alleged reaction to medication.
Fielder-Civil reportedly asked Winehouse for a divorce earlier this fall, but now he said he has to “let her go to save her life.”
“I am not abandoning her,” he said. “I am doing this out of love," Fielder-Civil said.
