Toxic troll Amy Winehouse's father has warned that his daughter could face a "slow and painful death" from lung disease emphysema.
Mitch Winehouse spoke to Sky News on Friday and revealed that although Winehouse only has "a small amount of emphysema in the top of one of her lungs", her condition could become "a lot more serious".
"I want people to understand - even if they give her one cigarette, they're causing her harm," he said.
The
Back to Black
hitmaker was diagnosed with the early stages of
last month, and is set to stop performing live shows as of September, according to her father.
"From September, we're not going to be doing any more work," he said.
"She has five contractual gigs between now and then that she has to do. Then she will be relaxing and writing."
Her father said the singer had developed emphysema as a result of smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine, but was now making headway to "check her behaviour".
"My biggest fear is that she would die," he said, "but she won't die of a drug overdose. It won't be that quick.
"She would die, unfortunately, of emphysema... We would be talking about a very slow and painful death, gasping for air.
"I would ask any people who would supply her with substances to think on that."
Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil is currently doing bird and awaiting sentencing in a London prison for assault and perverting the course of justice.
Papa Winehouse also said the Wino clan is willing to give the jailbird the opportunity to clean himself up once he's out of jail.
"I don't think he is clean now, but he will go straight to rehab when he gets out.
"He has promised me that he will make things right when he is out. I'm going to give him the chance to do that. We will give him the benefit of the doubt. He has got to get himself clean.
"It's the last chance saloon if he comes out and they go back to what they were doing before. He's a fit young man and probably could go on like that for years, but Amy can't and she needs to understand that," he concluded.
Her father also believes in fairytales and is deluding himself that the chemical kids' love for each other will conquer all.
"I'm quite old fashioned and I believe that love can conquer anything. I believe they can have a happy ending, I really do believe that."
I'm not so sure, Mitch. I mean, judging by
, I'd say that Wino's doing anything but "check her behaviour".
Anyway, it's Monday morning - too early for this kind of psychodrama. Caffeine first, then I'll pretend to listen...
Slaphead Manson
The video below is supposedly of bug-eyed rocker Marilyn Manson.
Satan's little helper (or something that bares a striking resemblance to the dark knight at least) was filmed with a throng of adoring fans praying at his impish hooves.
No idea where he was, but the incessant autograph-chasing Frenchman kinda gives the game away.
Said bloke then shifts himself closer to Manson for a handshake and a hug. And then... well, see for yourself at about the 1min 15 sec mark.
Fabulous or fake?
Blogger's briefs
The latest on this week's headline-hogging celebrity sinners and winners.
Madge 'n' Guy
Yet more PDA from the Ritchie camp. Yes, they want us all to believe that they're still very much together... for now at least. The lovebirds were snapped
on Saturday as they headed for a Kaballahahahahaha centre in NYC.
Meanwhile, Madonna's alleged bit on the side, A-Rod, has
with his estranged wife Cynthia Rodriguez. It's all in the name of the kids, obviously.
However...
There is the recurring rumour that A-Rod's missus is allegedly threatening to release
that the baseball star sent to "soulmate" Madonna.
Nothing like a good, clean fight is there.
Death to Izzy
Katherine Heigl looks like she'll live to regret her notorious
Grey's Anatomy
brain fart.
Remember how Heigl said she was
pulling out of the Emmy awards race
last month, because she believed she hadn't been given good enough material to work with?
Well, the show's producers were understandably peeved. Very peeved.
The latest rumour wafting from the set of the doc drama is that creator Shonda Rhimes is mulling over the idea of
Dr Isobel "Izzie" Stevens.
An on-set snitch says: "It's not good there."
"Shonda is pi**ed. They're thinking of killing her off. They want Izzie dead."
Ex drama
John Mayer just can't keep ex Jessica Simpson out of his life.
Mayer's current squeeze Jennifer Aniston reportedly found a batch of love letters from his ex-girlfriend Simpson in his guitar case.
Oops.
A snitch says: "Jennifer was more hurt than angry at the discovery."
"The letters surprisingly were very touching and well written."
Aniston's rep labeled the story "completely fabricated".
Text talk
Life & Style
magazine has published a text message that it claims was sent by Samantha Ronson to alleged lover, Lindsay Lohan.
"Lindsay left a message from Samantha up on her BlackBerry all day. It said, 'I love you, honey. Happy four-month anniversary!' They are madly in love," claims a source.
Quotables
"I'm not married, not pregnant, didn't have a boob job, no Botox. What else?"
- Anna Kournikova is tired of all those inane questions about her personal life.
Monday classic: reproduction rap
Here be video of a Jamie Lynn Spears impersonator rapping animatedly about where babies come from.
It's sex education, ya'll! You have to watch it.
Caution: This video contains lyrics that may offend delicate ears.
"Where's my baby daddy?"
Blind items
Guess the celebutards...
"Which star boasts of his family drug connections? He looks squeaky clean on set but sorts out all of his mates on a night out."
"Have a baby and then lose your husband? This A list singer recently had a baby, but it seems that the little bundle of joy was also just delaying the inevitable. The only thing that held them together was the pregnancy. Now that the pregnancy is over, so is the marriage."
"Which singer, who claims to be a real family girl, is actually only close to her dad because he buys her drugs?"
Fast gossip
If it's celebrity sin, it's in.
More of
Jamie Lynn Spears
pimping her baby:
Mariah Carey
in
Elle Magazine
:
Nicky Hilton
is wasting away:
Tobey Maguire
chucks a mental at paparazzi (NSFW):
Antonio Banderas
causes a real stink:
Before they were stars
:
Ethan Hawke
marries his pregnant former nanny:
Is
Jessica Simpson
knocked up?
Sacha Baron Cohen
causes stink over gay kiss:
Nicole Kidman
's new house:
It's snowing in
Amy Winehouse
's nose:
Michael Buble
and
Emily Blunt
, dunzo.
Tom Cruise
and
Katie Holmes
sent gift baskets to
Nicole Kidman
's newborn:
Hayden PantyLiner
might be engaged:
Madonna
and
Britney Spears
are soooo Shocking: I
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Dobbyn feels his musicality has been affected, but remains in good spirits.