But we wanted to emphasise what she was really like. “You can’t airbrush all the horrible stuff out. Last week, Mitch also spoke movingly about making the film, saying: “We wanted for people to get a different view of her, to understand she was a loving, kind and very generous person. In a statement ahead of the screening she said, “I don’t feel the world knew the true Amy, the one that I brought up, and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to offer an understanding of her roots and a deeper insight into the real Amy.” Janis is living with multiple sclerosis, an incurable condition affecting the brain and nervous system, and said she wanted to make the documentary to give her a permanent reminder of Amy. In the new documentary Reclaiming Amy, Janis and Mitch, now 70 – who split in 1993 when Amy was 10 – talk movingly about their daughter and her legacy. Over her career she won 24 awards from 60 nominations, including five Grammys in 2008 for Back To Black. Winehouse weighed just 44kg when she died. RELATED: Unseen photos give rare look at Amy Winehouse I like to think she went to sleep and just didn’t wake up, so I hope she didn’t suffer.”Īmy’s career took off after she signed to Simon Fuller’s 19 Management in 2002, then she found international success in 2006 with her second album, Back To Black. My only comfort is that Amy’s was peaceful. It was the lack of consistency, the stopping and starting again.

“Her body couldn’t cope with that amount of alcohol after three weeks of abstinence. “I think what killed Amy was not just the alcohol, but the fact that she was less than 7st (44kg) and just over 5ft (152.4cm) tall. “Amy was incredibly strong, both physically and mentally, but alcohol addiction seemed to creep up on her and then just took her by surprise. There was so much she still wanted to achieve. Speaking the year she died, Janis said, “Amy didn’t want to die, she didn’t have a death wish. Janis, now 66, has told how the singer, who started on her path to fame at the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School in Barnet, North London, was so ashamed of her alcohol use that she refused to drink in front of her. “She had started drinking again that week after a period of abstinence.” “The court heard that Amy was battling hard to conquer her problems with alcohol and it is a source of great pain to us that she could not win in time.

“We understand there was alcohol in her system when she passed away – it is likely a build-up of alcohol in her system over a number of days. RELATED: Amy Winehouse thought she was pregnant, father reveals

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