CONFLICTING STORIES

Death & Denial: Was Amy Winehouse Clean Or On A Bender When She Died?

By Elizabeth C.

TOXICOLOGY tests on tortured artist Amy Winehouse can’t come soon enough to resolve the mystery surrounding her death.

Only hours after the Grammy winning blues singer was found dead in her bed, friends were quoted in British newspapers saying she had been on a vodka bender and had taken the “Love Drug” ecstasy.

“My friend’s boyfriend is a policeman, and he’s the one who found Amy Winehouse dead,” TV producer Danny Panthaki claimed on Twitter. “Overdosed on ecstasy.” The account has since been deleted.

The U.K. s Daily Mail reported that the gifted singer and songwriter was seen buying drugs in Camden the night before her death.

Yet Winehouse’s father keeps insisting publicly that his daughter had kicked her habits and now believes she died of alcohol withdrawal, People has confirmed. And an unidentified source told the U.K.’s Sun that “abstinence gave her body such a fright, they thought it was eventually the cause of her death.”

At his only daughter’s memorial service, held at Edgwarebury Cemetery in North London, Winehouse said, “”Three years ago, Amy conquered her drug dependency, the doctors said it was impossible but she really did it. She was trying hard to deal with her drinking and had just completed three weeks of abstinence.”

The former taxi driver said his daughter had found good love with film director Reg Traviss. “He helped her with her problems and Amy was looking forward to their future together,” said Winehouse, who was devoted to his daughter. “She was the happiest she has been for years. “

Though his daughter’s drug problems forced her to cancel a summer tour and led her to being booed offstage in Belgrade just last month, the elder Winehouse insists his daughter was healthy and happy.

“…Knowing she wasn’t depressed, knowing she passed away, knowing she passed away happy, it makes us all feel better.”

There’s a chasm between vodka bender mixed with ecstasy and “conquered her drug dependency.” Both tales can’t be true.

We’ll know in four to six weeks when the toxicology reports return.