Director Blames Bulimia For Amy Winehouse’s Death In New Docu

Besides alcohol abuse, deceased singer Amy Winehouse also suffered from bulimia nervosa which she battled for long. Her doctors believe the condition contributed to her early demise in 2011 at the age of 27.

Asif Kapadia, a director, shared the physicians’ belief that bulimia ravaged Winehouse’s body. He said, “That unfortunately led to her downfall, it was there from when she was very young until the very end,” quotes News.com.au.

Kapadia, who made the documentary about Winehouse, reveals a lot of secrets behind the award-winning singer such as her being denied a US visa because of a video footage that showed her smoking crack cocaine. The incident led her record company to write Winehouse to remind her to keep off drugs while attending the Grammy Awards in 2008 when she get won five Grammys.

After the award, Winehouse told her long-time friend Juliette Ashby – while backstage – that it was boring without drugs. That moment was included in the docu. Kapadia points out, “So in that scene you see her win all these awards and she still finds a way to bring it down, she can’t even enjoy it without any drugs.”

In another scene, Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were shown in jail while off drugs in Sta Lucia in 2009. The couple underwent rehab for six months. In the docu, the husband admits he introduced her to crack cocaine and heroin. The director believes the couple were messed up kids who realised they had so much common when they met.

Kapadia sees the couple’s relationship as a power game wherein Wineshouse generally did anything that Fielder-Civil asked her to do. He revealed that in her later years, the artist became “quite childish” often went around with little clothing, noting, “She’s not well, that’s someone with a mental illness running around in her underwear.”

The initial version of the docu, titled “Amy,” was almost three hours and is now showing in selected movie houses. Kapadia said he plans to come up with an extended director’s cut of the film, similar to what he did with another movie, “Senna.”

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