Hard Gal: Your Friday Night Is Amy Winehouse’s Rehab

A lengthy piece yesterday described Amy Winehouse’s latest adventures on Detox Island.  On St. Lucia, she has two villas, half a dozen caretakers, her new boyfriend, and her cousin.  She seems to have cut back on some of her drug use.  But she’s found a new addiction to occupy her time – the joy of songwriting alcohol.  

Wednesday, about 9am, at the Cotton Bay Village resort in St Lucia and Amy Winehouse is at the bar drinking her second shot of tequila of the day.

‘I think I’m doing very well,’ she chirrups. ‘I’d normally have had six shots by now. Today I’ve only had two.’

Universal Records, in total, is spending around 500,000 British pounds to keep her sober enough to record a hit record for them.  More hijinks, ATJ:  

In recent months, Amy has been hospitalised three times after alcoholic benders lasting up to three days. One time, she ended up on a drip for dehydration.

This week, Amy was so keen to get her shots of tequila that she sneaked great gulps straight from the bottle when the barmaid’s back was turned.

There were accounts of her going on long benders with ‘friends’ and tourists saw her crawling on her hands and knees, begging for drinks because the hotel was declining to serve her.

Sounds like an altogether bad scene, though I must object to the use of scare quotes around “friends.”  Who else to go on long benders with, if not friends?  

Also, I’m pretty sure this exact same thing happened in the movie 24 Hour Party People.  

The rest of the article at The Daily Mail.