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Blake Fielder-Civil, often known as the ex-husband of the late Amy Winehouse, has insisted he isn’t accountable for her demise.
In his first ever full-length interview since award-winning singer Winehouse’s demise in 2011 on the age of 27, Fielder-Civil has vowed to “take management of my very own narrative.”
The couple have been married from 2007 to 2009 and he was typically blamed for her demise after admitting he launched her to laborious medicine throughout their extremely turbulent relationship.
On Paul C. Brunson’s We Want To Speak podcast, Fielder-Civil, 43, who’s now sober, stated it’s a “reality” that he and Winehouse “grew to become addicted collectively.”
‘It was identified that Amy had experimented with medicine and it had nothing to do with me. The heroin was one thing that, as I stated, I attempted, for instance ten occasions, and smoked it with some mates over a interval of six months.
‘That is what I used to be engaged on. However yeah, the primary time she did it was with me and it was in all probability my sixth time.”
Winehouse’s official explanation for demise was alcohol poisoning. On the time of her demise, two years after her divorce, her blood alcohol degree was greater than 5 occasions the authorized restrict.
Responding to claims that he performed a job in Winehouse’s dependancy and in the end her demise, former video manufacturing assistant Fielder-Civil informed Brunson: ‘My place now could be that I do know that many individuals, particularly individuals who learn the media 20 years in the past, would really feel that Amy’s demise is my duty.
‘As I’ve all the time stated: I don’t keep away from any duty. If I’ve performed one thing I will elevate my hand in opposition to it, however I am effective. I am not doing nicely, however I am at peace with the truth that I’ve a job to play. However in addition to every little thing else, there’s yet one more factor that additionally performed a job.
“Amy had company of her personal, and there’s completely no disrespect to her in saying that, however Amy did what she needed to do and even figuring out that the ingesting was beginning to damage her, she continued.”
He insists Winehouse was already experimenting with medicine, notably cocaine, earlier than they met.
‘I’ve to defend myself a bit in opposition to sure issues. You recognize, it is not truthful to the individuals who love me to suppose untruths,” he informed Brunson. ‘Amy had began making an attempt cocaine with their ex-partner.
Fielder-Civil additionally spoke in regards to the second he discovered of Winehouse’s demise whereas serving a jail sentence for assault and perverting the course of justice.
He revealed how he prayed each night time that Winehouse would nonetheless be alive after his launch from jail as a result of he had ‘an infinite concern that one thing would occur to her if I wasn’t there.’
Jail officers took him to an workplace and confirmed him a information report confirming that the Again to Black singer had died.
“My first thought was it could be a hoax,” he stated.
‘I burst into tears. It was the one comfort I had at that second for the lack of this large, large a part of my life.
‘My cellmate on the time was a really stable man. He noticed it on the information and instantly gave me a hug. I burst into tears. He additionally began crying. So it is unusual that I used to be held up by, you recognize, like I used to be being supported and held up by somebody that I had identified for a number of weeks.
“That was the one comfort I had at that second for shedding this large, large a part of my life, an enormous a part of my coronary heart. Somebody I would not see or hear from once more or something. It was an excessive amount of.’
Metro has contacted Amy Winehouse’s property for remark.
You possibly can watch the complete interview on the most recent episode of Paul C. Brunson’s We Want To Speak podcast, now on YouTube.
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