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The Daily News is reporting that Amy Winehouse has been in the hospital since fainting Monday because she has tuberculosis. They’re also saying Amy’s massive weight loss has hindered her recovery – and that she won’t let doctors treat her.
As Amy Winehouse remains in the hospital, it’s being reported that the 24-year-old has a case of tuberculosis.
With a chest infection and the songstress coughing up blood, sources inside the London hospital report her doctors are trying to control her irregular heartbeat.
“She’d been suffering horrible coughing fits and hurling up blood for a while but refused to be examined. Doctors now believe it is tuberculosis and are doing more tests to be certain,” the source told London’s The Sun newspaper.
Winehouse’s massive weight loss since she sky-rocketed to fame in 2004 is also a concern of doctors.
[From the Daily News]
However Amy’s rep officially denied the TB report, stating that Amy has some sort of chest infection, and doing his best to make it sounds like it’s relatively mild.
Amy Winehouse has been tested for tuberculosis during her prolonged hospital stay, her rep tells PEOPLE. “She has a chest infection and she had a routine test for TB, which came back negative,” Chris Goodman tells PEOPLE.
Goodman also denies a report – in U.K. tabloid The Sun – that she has been coughing up blood at the London clinic where she was taken after fainting earlier this week.
The troubled singer, 24, is still undergoing tests and doctors will soon decide whether she is able to keep her upcoming performing commitments. One insider says her chances of performing for Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebration in London on June 27 are “50/50.”
“She would really love to do the show – she always wants to do these things,” said Goodman. “But she will listen to her doctors.”
[From People]
Amy Winehouse not showing up to a big performance isn’t exactly newsworthy anymore. Having a legitimate excuse NOT TO be there is definitely newsworthy, at least for her. I think it’d be great if doctors keep her in the hospital as long as possible. It certainly couldn’t make things worse. Though one has to wonder if she’s also going through withdrawals, since presumably she’s not shooting up in the ICU. Though if anybody could figure out a way to get it done, it’s Winehouse.
Here’s Amy and her dad Mitch on the way to the hospital; header of Amy right before she fainted on Monday. Images thanks to WENN.
Written by JayBird
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8 Responses to “Amy Winehouse hospitalized for chest infection”
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a blind item i read hints that she is HIV positive
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lulu, stop with the HIV speculations, please.
I believe the reason why Winehouse refuses to be treated, is that she doesn’t want to quit. She doesn’t want to know what is REALLY the matter, so as soon as she gets out of hospital, she’s gonna get higher than a rocket.
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i have just come to realize her head is HUUUUUGE!
like, seriously. YIKES.
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Sounds like crack lung to me too. The weight loss makes her weaker and unable to recover quicker as well. So she might get TB in the end if she’s not careful…which she probably won’t be anyway.
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She is such an amazing talent, this is really sad. I mean I wish she would just get help, true help and they can save her life. I also hope they keep those animals away from her as in previous videos. She doenst need to be handling day old baby animals. PLEASE GET HELP, and let them help you. I think your life depends upon it. Poor thing..
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This is so amazing, this is like a hospital watch. Winehouse’s drug habit has gotten her into some pretty hot water, like allowing folks to make home videos of her being in ‘an altered state’. There are some pics of her at that Russia concert, and she looks pretty wrecked (Wenn’s site, ferinstance).
Never mind Blake, it’s the dope that’s kicking her ass.
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This just in, Winehouse is diagnosed with emphysema: http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/showbiz/showbiznews/2008/06/22/exlusive-amy-winehouse-has-emphysema-and-could-be-in-wheelchair-98487-20616661/
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No, she has C.L, otherwise known as crack lung.
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