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Winehouses’ ex-husband appears on Jeremy Kyle
Monday 4th March 2013 | Cody
Blake Fielder-Civil lives every day with the blame from the public for the death of the legend, Amy Winehouse. As a result of this he decided to take matters into his own hands by appearing on controversial TV Show Jeremy Kyle last Wednesday (27th Feb)
Blake, 34 has faced huge criticism by the media for introducing the Back to Black singer to drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine and publically apologised on the chat show before admitting that the couple, who were married for two years, were forced to divorce after Winehouses’ father Mitch hoped the split could cure his daughters addiction. Blake admitted that Mitch told him “If I loved her I’d divorce her and set her free- and I did”.
The ex-addict who has had two children since splitting with Amy, admitted that he introduced heroine to the singer in an East London hotel room, "I was smoking it on foil and she said can I try some and I said … I might have put up a weak resistance – the fact is whatever I said she did end up having some," he said. "I have to be really sort of conscious about what I say – I don't want to feel like I'm shirking responsibility. The fact is what I'm saying is of course I regret it, not just because of the damage it's caused Amy and the loss of life, but the damage to her family but also to my family and also to me." He also revealed that he had used heroine three-four times before Amy tried the drug.
Blake admitted that the couple who had a seven year relationship hoped of reuniting and getting re-married in the future “We had sort of spoken in the previous weeks about her visiting me and we had had maybe one emotional phone call when we'd said, you know, are we thinking about maybe getting back together at some point. And then we had a correspondence for about a week where we sort of ummed and aarhed about it and then in the end it was sort of like, what are we doing?"
Following the news of Amy’s accidental alcohol poisoning death in July 2011, Blake admitted prison staff broke the news to him and he thought it was an internet hoax. "So I made them show me about six or seven websites and each time they showed me the computer, I'm finding it harder and harder to say no, you know. And eventually I think they got the BBC up and they updated it so it was within the past minute and obviously at that point, I broke down and couldn't stop crying – and then I had to get put back in my cell."
After leaving prison, Blake admitted that he had several text messages from the singer "When I turned the phone on they were there, but there was one talking about being a godmother to (his son) Jack," and a heart-felt message discussing what Amy’s doctor had said to her “'You're never not going to be in love with Blake,' and Amy had said, 'Yeah, I know' and she asked me if she could come and visit me and I'd written a letter saying 'I don't know what we're going to do, of course I'm always going to love you.'
Fielder-Civil states that he has been drug free for a year after attending rehab three times.
