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With alcoholism taking the place of the hard drug addiction Amy Winehouse allegedly beat, Janis Winehouse tells ITV News that her daughter is "in trouble."

"The need to rescue her is enormous," says Janis. "I just want her to be okay and I would do whatever it took to make that right. Amy is in denial."

"She probably feels trapped, as her body is trapping her. But I know with addiction you do not have the choice. The substance itself directs you."

Janis says in getting over Amy's drug problems, alcohol took their place. The result? She starts drinking at 9 a.m. most days. That's very healthy.

"I wanted to say 'Amy, what are you doing? Don't you know what you're doing?' But by then she is on to it to help her through, which I understand."

Way to take a strong position, Jan.

Amy's dad Mitch Winehouse adds: "I have tried it all – I said, 'Amy you've got to do this, you have got to go to this doctor, you have got to do this, you've got to do that, you're killing me, you're killing your mum'. None of it worked."

Of Amy's recovery, Mitch says: "The last six months have been a remarkable recovery. A gradual recovery, which is good. With some slight backward steps – not drug backward steps, more drink backward steps if you follow my drift."

We follow it, Mitch. A couple of times a week, typically.

Chalk it up to mere boredom or full-on addiction, there's no question that Amy Winehouse is on a remarkable spiral into oblivion. Will she survive?

As for who's to blame for this three-year bender? Mitch does not hesitate to lay the responsibility on the shoulders of Amy's ex, Blake Fielder-Civil.

"The option of them being together is too horrible to contemplate," he says.

Just imagine how Gilleen Morris feels, carrying his child.

Yesterday's make-up has run across Amy Winehouse's face.

She is wearing a bright-pink bra under a cropped Nike top.

You can see scars which indicate that she has been self-harming - cutting herself - again and there are two fresh cigarette burns on her stomach.

Amy, 25, was hailed as the most exciting vocal talent of her generation. She is living in two villas which cost her record company about £2,000 a night.

It's a curious, dissolute life for the troubled singer. Lonely and usually drunk, seems more lost each passing day in her Caribbean paradise of St. Lucia.

A lucky (unlucky?) journalist from the Daily Mail (UK) got to spend time with Amy Winehouse there, and the songbird coughed up some choice quotes.

Covered in what appeared to be self-inflicted cuts and burns, Amy apparently replaced crack and heroin with alcohol. She began drinking at 9 a.m.

“It feels like home here,” she says of the resort she calls home.

In addition to paying for her villas and the six people that tend to her on a daily basis, Universal has installed a recording studio for Wino, in the hopes that she will sober up long enough to record the follow up album to Back To Black.

It’s cost almost $1 million, and all Amy Winehouse has to show for it thus far is an increasingly high tolerance for hard liquor (and weed, natch).

She was coherent enough to say that she and estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil - who knocked up Gilleen Morris while in rehab - are still in love.

However, she added, “I couldn’t have given him kids - and anyway I want black kids, not white kids.” Naturally, who doesn't? Makes perfect sense.

She said she was working on her temper, too: "I don't hit people any more. I used to get into confrontations ... now I just like to face things head on."

Well, that's a relief. Why are we imagining her head-butting people? And why do we get the sense that this troubled star is living on borrowed time?

Hey, don't we all? Janis Winehouse says her songbird daughter has turned to booze to "overcome the boredom of being away from her friends" while in St. Lucia.

Never mind that Amy seems to make plenty of friends in St. Lucia, or that she could easily return to the UK at any time, since she has no job. But whatever.

Earlier this month, Winehouse shocked fans (but not us, in the least) with an erratic performance at a jazz festival on the Caribbean island and was hospitalized.

Dehydration, a.k.a. an epic bender, had taken its toll.

Perhaps all Amy needs is some familiar faces around to make her relax ... just not Blake Fielder-Civil, of course. Janis Winehouse told Closer magazine:

"Two of her closest friends are going over to try to calm her down a bit. I think it will make a big difference because in the past few weeks she's bored."

A surprisingly lucid Amy Winehouse and her mum, Janis.

"Amy knows her drinking caused the [disastrous performance]. Of course her band is frustrated, but even they can't stop her," the elder Wino said.

Amy's dad, Mitch Winehouse, has supported the Grammy-winning singer throughout her addiction problems but Janis says he is "now having time out from her."

"He hasn't cut her off," she said. "But he's taken a step back."

Last week Amy pulled out of a gig to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Island Records - forcing about the 482nd apology from her management.

However, Janis remains confident that her daughter will beat the booze.

She said: "It's just another one of Amy's addictions getting the better of her. It is just another demon she has to beat. She came off drugs on her own so I know she'll stop drinking. It has to be her decision though, no one else can stop her."

Never mind that she "came off drugs" by becoming a full-blown alcoholic and pothead. A parent can convince herself of just about anything, it seems.

She may have cancelled her doomed-from-the-get-go long-awaited UK comeback gig, but that hasn't stopped Amy Winehouse embarking on a new endeavor:

Her own clothing line.

The troubled star, who is currently residing (note that the media finally stopped calling it a vacation) in St. Lucia, has been announced as the latest celebrity to lend their signature style to London-based fashion label, PPQ.

No word on whether PPQ plans on naming the new line "Heroin Chic" or whether each purchase will come with a voucher for a free bottle of malt liquor.

All we know is that somewhere, Blake Fielder-Civil is plotting how to get his hands on 50 percent of the royalties. Or where to get his next fix.

This is pretty much our reaction to most Amy Winehouse news.

While Wino may seem an unlikely fashion muse, PPQ is no stranger to London party girls - having paired up with Peaches Geldof in its first celebrity collaboration.

Launching later this year, Winehouse will design a capsule collection for Amy Molyneaux and Percy Parker's fashion line, set to be a homage to the starlet's look.

Her look? What would that be, exactly? Tattered denim shorts, cleavage-baring dresses? Open-toed shoes that provide easy access to the veins between your toes?

Sounds about right.

Sounds like a can't-miss proposition ... provided it doesn't require Amy to physically show up anywhere to promote it. Odds of her being conscious are iffy at best.

Troubled crooner Amy Winehouse has abruptly canceled her dreaded much-anticipated May 31 London concert, promising a full refund to those with tickets.

No explanation was provided.

The show would have been the first since her disastrous effort at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival this month, and her first UK concert since last September.

Wino has been in St. Lucia all of this year. She supposedly continues to work on her follow-up album to Back to Black. Don't hold your breath for it.

This is also the reaction of fans to Amy Winehouse concerts.

Meanwhile, Amy Winehouse went into the hospital yesterday, reporting "chest pains." She was given treatment and is now reportedly "doing better."

They might as well name a wing after her in the St. Lucia facility. Who's got June '09 in the Amy Winehouse Death Pool? Mitch Winehouse? Anyone?

Earlier in the week, she was hospitalized for "dehydration" after embarking on a booze bender. She's quit hard drugs, though, people. Baby steps.

Amy Winehouse was rushed to hospital for at least the fifth time in three hours months after another booze bender, reports the UK's Sun online.

The singer fell ill on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, where she has been on vacation - if you can call it that when you don't leave - almost all year.

Worried pals called an ambulance to the troubled celebrity's luxury villa and the songbird was given treatment. She was discharged the same night.

Fans fear - and we can't begin to comprehend why - that the latest escapade means she won’t be in a fit state to perform at her UK comeback gig in less than two weeks. She is scheduled to play London's Shepherd’s Bush Empire May 31.

Wonder if she'll make it to that date. Not to perform, we're talking about merely staying alive. At least one person in her life is quite skeptical.

Wino's collapse comes on the heels of her disastrous performance at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival, where she shocked the crowd with an erratic effort (even for her).

"Amy’s gig might as well be cancelled now. She’s not going to make it. It’s not worth her while even if she does make it, it will be a shambles," a pal said.

"She is not ready for it and she proved it at the festival."

Despite having (supposedly) beaten her drug addiction, the Grammy-winning artist is now struggling to cope with alcohol abuse that's worsening by the day.

Last month, her crazy, drunk ass landed in hospital after fainting in her holiday villa. Her spokesman attributed that fainting spell to "dehydration."

Try mixing in the occasional water with those beers, girl.

In a story that could have been accurately printed any morning for the past two years, Amy Winehouse’s father is terrified she will die from addiction to alcohol.

Mitch Winehouse, who has a close relationship with his troubled daughter, has already seen the singer hospitalized about 390 times thanks to her drug habit.

Reports say she has been trying to kick hard core narcotics in favor of weed and booze, but that's creating a new slew of issues as far as Mitch is concerned.

"After she almost died twice from drug problems, to see her walking, smiling - she has progressed so much," the elder Winehouse said. “But now, if it's alcohol instead of hard drugs - I don't think I can go through it again. I've distanced myself.

"Whatever happens, happens. It's her life. It's her career. It's her decision."

Mitch Winehouse with embattled, drug-addled daughter Amy.

Mitch is currently staying with Amy on the island of St. Lucia as she battles personal woes and writes her eagerly-anticipated third album. If her recent concert disaster is any indicator, don't look for that album in record stores anytime soon.

He accepts that he "has no influence over her life" and recalled: "She said to me, 'Dad thank you for pulling me out of drugs', and I said to her, 'But you are the one who decided to pull out. You can do it again and stop drinking’.”

Not so sure about that, given what we've seen of her lately, but here's hoping. Click to enlarge some recent Amy Winehouse pictures ...

We do not throw that description around lightly, so think about what we're saying here. It takes quite a disaster for the her to impress (depress?) us at this point - even hilariously gaunt, insane Amy Winehouse photos have become routine.

While all her recent concerts seem to conclude with the singer becoming a total slurring mess, this weekend's St. Lucia Jazz festival debacle may still take the cake.

Her camp can blame bad weather and cite "circumstances beyond her control" all they like, but quite simply, this performance ate ass long before it was rained out.

Flashing her underwear, barely being able to stand up and stumbling across the stage, Amy forget words to her own songs and announced, “I’m just kind of bored.”

Watch the video of Mrs. Blake Fielder-Civil below, and ponder whether this is the worst, most premature “comeback” ever, and if she'll live to see 26 in September:

Worst Amy Winehouse Concert Ever!

Amy Winehouse's lackluster comeback gig was mercifully nixed by a disgruntled fan.

That being mother nature.

Heavy rain forced the troubled British singer to cut short a performance at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival on Friday, her first live performance in 2009.

The singer and her band "tried to soldier on" despite the storm causing sound and lighting problems, but it was simply not to be on this day.

Hopefully her new boy toys were there to comfort her.

"Amy is very disappointedm as St. Lucia has been wonderful to her and its people have welcomed her with open arms, but circumstances beyond anyone's control meant this special show did not go as planned," said her spokesman, Chris Goodman.

Fans weren't exactly in tears over the abrupt cancellation.

"What a wasted talent," a concertgoer said, adding that she was booed at one point. "She is on a one-way road to destruction; it's such a shame."

During the hour-long set, Amy Winehouse forgot lyrics, appeared distracted and inadvertently flashed her underwear before walking off the stage.

At one point, the 25-year-old even said, "Sorry, I'm bored."

"It was disappointing," said another fan interviewed by the BBC. "It is very sad to see, but she is obviously not fit to be on stage."

Last week, Winehouse was hospitalized in St. Lucia for the 245th time, collapsing due to "dehydration" and "exhaustion," whatever those are.

As she tries to get over her estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy Winehouse is apparently finding comfort in a pair of St. Lucia natives.

The singer has now been romantically linked to a horse riding tour guide, Fidel Missore, on the island where she has spent most of the year.

While Amy copes with news that Blake knocked up Gilleen Morris in rehab, the Sun says "Fidel has been a shoulder to cry on ... he has been her rock."

The troubled Wino appeared in high spirits after her dramatic health scare on Friday night when she was spotted frolicking with Fidel Missore.

Despite spending Friday night in hospital after suffering dehydration, Amy was back at her resort laughing and joking with her new companion.

The 25-year-old Wino was scantily-clad compared to Missore, who must be saying all the right things to Amy, as she squealed with delight and jumped into his arms while she wrapped her legs around his waist. Such amazing chemistry.

But the public display of affection with Fidel comes amid reports Amy is growing close to another St. Lucian - a local shell salesman named Anton Moses.

After a holiday romance with Josh Bowman, reports claim Amy Winehouse has moved on to Anton, setting aside time when he finishes work each day.

A source told the Daily Star:

"Amy has become very cozy with Anton. Amy sets aside every evening to spend time with him and each day he saves her his best shell."

Ah, young Caribeean romance.