Raging Amy Winehouse in walkout at clinic
Jul 2, 2008 Amy Winehouse, Drugs, Soul Music
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B.J.
Amy Winehouse quit hospital in a rage after her decision to return to the stage backfired.
She threw a tantrum hours after her chaotic Glastonbury set and told dad Mitch to get her out. Friends now fear she may return to drugs — if she hasn’t already.
A pal said: “We feared a taste of the outside would remind her what she’s missing and it would be hard to get her back into life at the clinic. That’s exactly what’s happened.”
Rehab singer Amy, 24, was admitted to The London Clinic two weeks ago suffering from emphysema. She got clean and was “like an excited little girl” in the build-up to her comeback shows at Glastonbury on Saturday and Nelson Mandela’s Hyde Park birthday concert last Friday.
The pal added: “Doctors said we should let her do the shows because performing is what she lives for. We can’t take that away. It seemed the right thing to do because she was so excited. She looked and sounded better than she has in ages at the gigs.”
But Amy ranted on stage and elbowed a fan at Glastonbury. After her set she was whisked back to The London Clinic by helicopter — and 24 hours later she’d had enough.
The pal said: “Sunday was like she was on a terrible comedown from the whole thing. She kicked off and threw all her toys out the pram. She told Mitch, ‘I’m climbing the walls in here. I need to get out’. She said if he didn’t help her get out she’d walk out. He realized he had to let her leave, otherwise he’d have no control over where she goes and what she gets up to.”
The pal added: “He’s with her and keeping and eye on her, but he’s beside himself. Everyone is gutted as she’d been doing so well and hasn’t touched any drugs for two weeks. But now she’s out we fear it will all go downhill.”
A spokesman for Amy confirmed she had left the clinic and would be treated as an outpatient. She spent last night with pals at a local pub and kebab shop.
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