Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil has admitted he made “huge mistakes” during their relationship as he marks the singer’s 40th birthday.
Mr Fielder-Civil told Good Morning Britain how people still blame him for Winehouse’s death. The singer died on 23 July 2011 from alcohol intoxication. She was 27.
Mr Fielder-Civil said: “I have carried that burden for 10 years. I am the only person who has held accountability and said, yes I have made some huge mistakes.
“I was a 20-something-year-old drug addict and I had no idea how to make myself clean, let alone somebody else.”
Mr Fielder-Civil told Good Morning Britain how people still blame him for Winehouse’s death. The singer died on 23 July 2011 from alcohol intoxication. She was 27.
Mr Fielder-Civil said: “I have carried that burden for 10 years. I am the only person who has held accountability and said, yes I have made some huge mistakes.
“I was a 20-something-year-old drug addict and I had no idea how to make myself clean, let alone somebody else.”
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00:00 Do you feel people still hold you responsible for what happened to Amy?
00:04 Yeah, I think...
00:06 Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I wanted to speak today.
00:09 Yeah, I do. I do.
00:11 And that's OK.
00:13 I can't change how other people feel about that.
00:16 But for me personally, I need to...
00:19 I needed to stop carrying that cross on my own.
00:22 I've carried that burden myself for over ten years.
00:25 I feel, to be honest, that I'm...
00:29 ..the only person in that...within that story
00:33 that's ever kind of held any accountability,
00:36 that's ever tried to say, "Yeah, I made some huge mistakes."
00:39 What do you feel the mistakes were?
00:42 Well, I mean, I was... As I said, I was a 20-something-year-old drug addict,
00:47 so I had absolutely no idea how to make myself clean,
00:50 let alone somebody else,
00:52 who was a big cog in the machine for a record label
00:58 and with vested interests in Amy carrying on performing.
01:01 She was very vulnerable as well, as we know.
01:03 She was such a fragile soul, wasn't she?
01:05 Yeah, yeah, she was.
01:06 And I think that fragility, though,
01:08 is what people connected with in the albums and the songwriting.