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Amy’s father blames himself
Posted in Amy Winehouse, Celebs, Lyrics on the March 13, 2008
Amy Winehouse’s dad reckons he is to blame for her troubled life. Mitch believes his affair with another woman pushed his daughter over the edge after he embarked on an illicit relationship soon after the singer was born.
Amy and her older brother Alex grew up aware of the mistress and even had a special name for her - referring to her as ‘Daddy’s work wife’.
The lyrics Amy penned for track What It Is About Men hints towards domestic baggage, with the line: “All the s**t my mother went through.”
Taxi driver Mitch married Amy’s mum Janis in 1976 - with Amy arriving in 1983. But 18 months later, he fell for a colleague he was working with in a double-glazing firm. Their extramarital affair continued for almost a decade before Mitch eventually left his family to move in with his mistress - and then married her in 1996.
Mitch, who now lives with his second wife, said: “The children used to call Jane ‘Daddy’s work wife’. I did not leave home until Amy was ten, so the situation occurred for another eight or nine years before I left home. It was difficult.”
“I should have left earlier, I should have left sooner. There was not really a negative response from Amy (when I left), but she definitely became a lot more independent.
Perhaps deep down she felt her parents were splitting up, she could not rely on them to stay together and that it was about time she learned to look after herself. I thought Amy was over it pretty quickly - in fact it felt at the time Amy felt no effect at all. Maybe she could not articulate it in words, but she certainly did it with music.”
Talking of Amy’s drug and drink abuse, he opened up about her seizure last August and confirmed doctors warned her she could die if she continued taking drugs. He added: “She could die horribly. That is not going to happen - that cannot happen. It is easy for me to say it is my fault, and that had I been a better parent this would not have happened. But who knows whether it would or not?”