If someone told you that you would die unless you stopped doing a certain behavior, how long would it take you to give that behavior up? Well, if you’re Amy Winehouse, you don’t give it up. Because nobody tells Amy what to do: not her record company, not her parents, not her doctor, not even Blake Incarcerated. Amy was released from the hospital, where she was diagnosed with emphysema - pretty shocking for a 24-year-old - on Monday. She was immediately photographed smoking a cigarette.

Amy Winehouse was photographed smoking in London on Monday after her father Mitch revealed she is suffering from emphysema.

“The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,” Mitch told UK newspaper the Daily Mail.

Winehouse, 24, was taken to the hospital last week for tests after she fainted at home in London.

“With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up,” Mitch said. “There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She’s got 70 percent lung capacity.”

If she doesn’t get treatment, she could need an oxygen mask to breathe, Mitch told the Daily Mail.

“She’s only 24 yet she has the lungs of an 80-year-old,” David H. Nielson, a thoracic surgeon in San Antonio, tells Usmagazine.com. “She’s going to get fatigued [on stage] and have to rest with supplemental oxygen. It will dramatically effect her career.”

“To have this type of emphysema already will likely shorten her life to about 50 years of age,” says Nielson.

[From Us Weekly]

Meanwhile, Amy’s publicist (who the hell would want that job) denies the reports that the singer has emphysema, saying that she only has the beginning traces of the disease and that Amy’s father “misspoke.”

A discrepancy regarding the health of Amy Winehouse arose Monday after the Grammy-winning singer’s father said she had early stage emphysema brought on by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes.

A publicist for Winehouse later said he had misspoken “out of his concern for her.”

“She is not diagnosed with full-blown emphysema, but instead has early signs of what could lead to emphysema,” Tracey Miller, her U.S.-based representative, told The Associated Press on Monday.

[From Fox News]

This makes a little more sense than her having full blown emphysema- but either way, wouldn’t it be a good idea for Amy to quit smoking and go to rehab? The girl is either stone cold stupid or she’s got a death wish. At this point, she is becoming less of a tragic figure and more of a cartoon character mess.

Amy Winehouse is shown smoking on 5/12/08, thanks to WENN. The photos of Amy Smoking after her release can be found on Gossip Girls.

In some sad news, Amy Winehouse has emphysema, her father Mitch has told the Sunday Mirror. He says that her doctors claim that Amy will die if she doesn’t quit smoking drugs.

“The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,” he was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror.

“The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid - she wouldn’t have been able to breathe.”

He added: “She’s got emphysema. It’s in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.

“With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes, her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She’s got 70 per cent lung capacity.” He added that a spell in hospital last week and renewed treatment for her well-publicised drug addiction had offered a ray of hope for his 24-year-old daughter.

“If she doesn’t go back to drugs, then she can lead this magnificent life,” he said. “We are praying that that’s what Amy really wants. She seems resolute.”

Sydney Morning Herald

I hope this disease is enough to get Amy off drugs, because I think for the first time her livelihood is truly threatened. Obviously Amy needs to have good lungs to sing, and she definitely needs to breathe to live.

Amy Winehouse has an estimated fortune of $20 million, but if she can’t work her money may eventually dry up and instead of being a drug-using rock star she’ll just be a junkie. Which would be a shame because she is so talented.

Her father says in the interview that she abstains from drugs when she’s working - although her recent string of canceled concerts suggests otherwise - and that she should focus on her music.

Amy Winehouse is shown taking out the trash with a cigarette in her mouth on 5/27/08, thanks to WENN.

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.

Amy Winehouse fainted on Monday after signing some autographs at her London home. Her father took her to the hospital, where she’s luckily been ever since. Everyone’s acting like Amy has some mysterious condition – running lots of tests and talking in (internet) whispered voices. You know what illness Winehouse is suffering from? Drugs. I know the next logical smart ass question is “Where’d you get your medical degree JayBird?” From the University of Duh. It was a really rigorous program.

Amy Winehouse’s fainting spell has her doctors stumped. The “Rehab” chanteuse has been hospitalized since blacking out Monday, and doctors at the London facility where she’s being treated are conducting further tests, her rep said today, to get to the bottom of what ails her before she resumes performing later this month.

Winehouse’s father, Mitch, who drove his daughter to the clinic, told London’s Telegraph that his daughter will remain hospitalized “as long as possible” until her physicians determine a proper diagnosis.

“Amy is doing fine,” he added.

Winehouse’s camp denied a report by the Sun tabloid she was suffering from an irregular heartbeat and that she was ordered by doctors to clean up her act and quit drugs or risk dying.

[From E! News]

Something tells me living as hard as Amy Winehouse does can really shorten your life expectancy. At first I assumed she’d overdosed, but perhaps she’s caused herself some serious damage, and that’s what’s caused her to faint. You simply can’t expect that you can snort and shoot everything that doesn’t walk and your body will thank you for it.

Here’s Amy with her dad Mitch leaving her home to go to ‘The Clinic’ in London on Monday. Images thanks to Splash.

There is nothing shocking about the latest news that singer Amy Winehouse was admitted to the hospital after a fainting spell yesterday. However, what is surprising is that the doctors can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong with her. Tests done at the London Clinic were deemed “inconclusive.” Are you kidding me?

Amy Winehouse remains in hospital in London after fainting at home on Monday afternoon, with tests on the singer so far proving “inconclusive”.

“She seems to be fine in herself, but they are taking their time to be sure,” her spokesman said.

Winehouse had been “doing admin” when she fell ill but “quickly recovered”.

Her manager’s assistant had stopped her falling and Ms Winehouse’s father, Mitch, had taken her to hospital “as a precaution”, the spokesman added.

After receiving treatment, she stayed at the London Clinic for observation.

[From the BBC News]

Ahhh, “Doing Admin.” That must be what all the kids are calling it these days. I’m sure Amy got lots of “Admin” delivered to her house yesterday after making $2 Million for a brief appearance at a Moscow art gallery earlier in the week in which she appeared completely wasted and also wore no underpants. I can’t even imagine being in the front row of that mess. Yikes!

Meanwhile, Amy is rumored to be getting ready to renew her wedding vows with her jailbird husband, Blake Incarcerated.

Since their wedding in Miami just 13 months ago, the groom has been sent to jail and there have already been rumors that both of them have had affairs.

Amy, 24, was said to be cozying up to her manager’s assistant, Alex Haines, and was spotted out with her producer Mark Ronson.

Meanwhile, there were whispers that Blake, 25, had been getting close with with an old friend, Sarah Thomas, said to have been his ‘rock’ through the tough times.

Now sources close to Blake’s family tell the paper that they want to put all that behind them by renewing their vows just a year after they first took them — even though they’ll have to do it in jail.

“It’s been a hard time for everyone concerned,” said their source, “but we are sure that they will get through it as a couple.

“In a bid to show the world that she is standing by Blake, [Amy] is looking into renewing her wedding vows – and she doesn’t care if it has to be done behind bars.

“She is totally committed to him – and he to her.”

[From OK!]

Vomit! You know, I used to blame Blake Incarcerated for Amy’s state, but she continues her spiral even with him in the clink, so he can’t be the only reason she’s such a mess. Maybe the hospital can keep her there for a while and get her cleaned up. But first they have to figure out what’s wrong with her. Hey, doc, have you tried testing Amy for crack? Heroin? Cocaine? Valium? Spic n’ Span?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Amy Winehouse is shown in photos you may have already seen handing out ice pops to photographers outside her house on 6/11/08, thanks to WENN.

A jailhouse snitch says he was offered £20,000 by Blake Fielder-Civil to beat up Pete Doherty – because Doherty was sleeping with Amy Winehouse. At least according to Civil. My first thought when reading this was “No freaking way, no one would ever touch Pete Doherty’s naked body.” But then I had to give pause, and realize that I can’t imagine the man that’d touch Amy Winehouse’s scabies-infected skin either. So really, they’re a match made in medical literature heaven – and I guess the odds are so vastly against it after all.

Amy Winehouse’s husband offered a fellow prisoner £20,000 to beat up Pete Doherty whom he accused of having an affair with his wife, the Old Bailey heard today… While in prison before trial he was said to have told Richard Lyttle that he had received threats that the 24-year-old millionaire singer would be abducted. The evidence emerged today during a trial of two men accused of taking part in a contract killing.

it was while he was in Pentonville that Mr Lyttle met Fielder-Civil, who he said had found out about his wife’s alleged affair “when he learned he [Doherty] had been around there in the early hours of the morning”. Questioned by defence barrister Sir Desmond de Silva QC, Mr Lyttle said Fielder-Civil had offered him £20,000 “to cause damage” to the 29-year-old Babyshambles front man.

“He said he would give £20,000 to anyone who done him - cause him injury - he was quite annoyed at the time.” Sir Desmond asked: “Because he believed there was an affair between Amy and Pet e Doherty?” Mr Lyttle replied: “Yeah.” Sir Desmond: “Did he say ‘smash him to pieces?’ “ Mr Lyttle: “That’s what he said.” Sir Desmond: “There are a lot of hard men in prison?” Mr Lyttle: “I would say so, yes.”

Sir Desmond: “But Mr Fielder-Civil seemed to have entrusted you with this business of carrying out this particular mission?” Mr Lyttle: “He seemed quite upset and annoyed.” He went on to say that he had felt sorry for Fielder-Civil who had treated him as a friend, but admitted that he later tried to obtain £5,000 from a newspaper about what he had been told.

[From the Daily Mail]

Richard Lyttle goes on to describe how several other men had threatened to kidnap Amy Winehouse, but didn’t say why they’d made the threat, or what Fielder-Civil did about it. Though the testimony of jailhouse snitches is always suspect, this man wasn’t testifying in Blake’s trial or in the trial of any of his associates. So I can’t imagine that they were offered any deal in exchange for their testimony regarding Fielder-Civil. Nonetheless, Richard Lyttle is on trial for taking part in a contract killing, so it’s not like he’s made up of the highest moral fiber.

Amy and Blake really do manage to bring a lot of drama into their lives. It seemed like it was more than enough with the alcoholic blackouts, the drug overdoses, and the wasted joint visits to rehab. But that all really pales in comparison to kidnapping, witness tampering, and sleeping with Pete Doherty. Which is far, far worse than offering a guy $40,000 to beat up Pete. I was wondering exactly what Doherty would look like if someone knocked him around a bit. And I’ve decided he’d look like… Pete Doherty.

Here’s Amy Winehouse greeting a fan at her house today, who broke down in tears after traveling all the way from Canada. Fans are forever showing up at Amy’s door, and it seems like she’s always remarkably kind and welcoming to them. Images thanks to WENN.

Amy Winehouse must be going through some serious shit. Even for her. No, she’s not stoned out of her mind – or at least not to the point that it’s obvious just by looking at photos of her – but Amy’s beehive has reached legendary proportions. And Amy herself once said that when the beehive grows that tall, shit is going down.

Amy Winehouse has spoken out about her recent troubles - and blames her meltdown on having no confidence about her looks.

‘I’m quite an insecure person,’ she says. ‘I’m very insecure about the way I look. I mean, I’m a musician I’m not a model. The more insecure I felt, the more I’d drink.

‘And to Tracey Trash, who does my hair, I’d be like, “Bigger! Bigger!” - like the more insecure I feel, the bigger my hair has to be.’

[From Now Magazine]

Amy said this in an interview last fall, after she and husband Blake were arrested in Norway for pot possession. I’m guessing she’s either feeling super unattractive right now, or the beehive height can correlate to any kind of insecurity. Though logically, I’ve got to wonder how a higher beehive would make a girl feel better about herself. Perhaps she thinks it distracts from the rest of her. Which – to be fair – when it’s really big, it sorta does.

Amy has a lot to stress about right now. Her husband Blake has pleaded guilty to assault and perverting the course of justice (witness tampering) in London, and is scheduled to be sentenced next month.

Images thanks to Splash.

Details have finally been released in the criminal case of Amy Winehouse’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil. Blake has been on trial for assault and perverting the course of justice (akin to witness tampering here in the states). Last week he copped a plea, but it couldn’t be released until this week, due to some stipulations put on the media by the judge.

It’s now been learned that Blake Fielder-Civil and friend Michael Brown tried to bribe pub landlord James King with approximately $400,000 after they assaulted King. It appears they beat him up in June of 2006 due to something relating to a woman: Brown used to date one of King’s friends. Fielder-Civil and Brown attacked King around closing time at the bar, and kicked him repeatedly.

Using two middle men, they offered King £200,000 to withdraw the charges, refuse to testify, and leave the country so that he couldn’t be forced into court. One of the middle men and King brought the plan to the Daily Mirror, trying to sell their story (after they’d already extended the bribe, and King had accepted). The Daily Mirror – being remarkably scrupulous – reported what they’d learned to the police, which launched the investigation. King clearly isn’t that bright, since by going to the Daily Mirror, he alerted police to his illegal activities all on his own.

But the plot was exposed when King and Kelly contacted the Daily Mirror in an attempt to sell their story - and staff informed the police. Kelly claimed that Miss Winehouse, a Grammy Award winner, was effectively funding the bribe, the court heard.

…King, who is being tried for conspiring to pervert the course of justice, said he would ‘effectively throw the case and not turn up’, so that Fielder-Civil and Brown would not face prosecution, Snaresbrook Crown Court, in East London, heard.

When they met journalist Stephen Moyes, in October 2007, he asked if Amy Winehouse was involved in the plot. ‘He was told by Kelly, “Who do you think is paying for it? Of course she is”,’ Mr Larkin said.

But there was no evidence she was part of the conspiracy. King claimed that he was ‘hounded’ by people to stop the case from going to court and suggested money was coming from Amy Winehouse to ‘make this go away’, the jury was told.

[From the Daily Mail]

It’s hard to believe that Amy Winehouse wasn’t involved in this in some way. Where else would Blake Fielder-Civil possibly get money like that? I’m not saying it was Amy’s idea, but I doubt even she would hand over that amount of money without asking what is was for. Police did investigate her involvement, but for whatever reason decided not to charge her. But it sounds like it’s pretty clear that she had something to do with the witness tampering all along.

Here’s Amy Winehouse briefly leaving her London home to hand out ice pops to fans and photographers today. Images thanks to WENN.

Amy Winehouse’s useless husband Blake Fielder-Civil, plead guilty last week to assault and conspiring with the guy he assaulted. Fielder-Civil, 26, beat up Macbeth’s Pub owner James King – and then he tried to bribe King to withdraw his allegations and leave the country. While Fielder-Civil could have gotten about three years for the original assault, it’s the witness tampering – called perverting the course of justice in the U.K. – that’s the much bigger crime. That carries up to life in prison – though Fielder-Civil is unlikely to get such a harsh sentence.

Amy Winehouse’s husband has admitted assaulting a barman and then attempting to cover it up. Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, is standing trial in London on charges of attacking pub landlord James King, and then conspiring with him to withdraw as a witness at the trial. Fielder-Civil and three-co-defendants pleaded guilty last week, but a court order barred reporting the pleas because King is due to face a separate trial. Judge David Radford lifted that restriction Monday.

Soul diva Winehouse and Fielder-Civil married in Miami in May 2007. He was arrested in November and has been in jail awaiting trial ever since. Winehouse was at London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court last week for the opening legal arguments in her husband’s trial.

Fielder-Civil faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the assault charge. Perverting the course of justice carries a maximum sentence of life, though that is unlikely to be imposed in this case.

[From the Huffington Post]

I can’t even imagine what Winehouse is going to do as a result of this. Since the plea actually happened last week, it’s safe to assume she already knows about it. Fielder-Civil will be sentenced in about a month, once his co-defendants are finished with their other trials. I would imagine that if he ends up being sentenced for any significant amount of time, we’ll find Amy hallucinating on top of someone’s chimney or something. And that’d be a big improvement for her, behavior-wise.

Here’s Amy Winehouse with her dad Mitch at Guanabana restaurant in Camden, London last night. Amy then stopped at a newsstand for cigarettes and candy. Header of Blake and Amy in November, 2007. Images thanks to WENN.

Just in case Amy Winehouse’s career wasn’t screwed enough from her inability to perform, her crack-smoking video, her multiple arrests including an assault charge after she head-butted a guy, her general drugged-out behavior, and her curious friendship with perhaps the only current musician with a worse reputation than she has, there’s now a new video that’s been released by The News of The World that has shows Amy singing an obnoxious idiotic racist song that insults seven different groups at once. The News of The World also claims to have seen a video of Amy giving her husband a BJ, and a photo of her giving him a listless hand job. It doesn’t sound like Amy is shown doing drugs in the video, although she’s shown holding a home made crack pike and there is certainly plenty of paraphernalia strewn around. There is also a photo of Amy and Blake with white tablets in both of their mouths.

The News of The World describes the entire video, which was taken a little over a year ago by Amy’s incarcerated husband, Blake Fielder Civil. The say that the video was given to them by “a former friend determined to show the world just what power Blake wields in manipulating the vulnerable young star,” but Blake is likely the one who released the video and accompanying photos. There have been stories about how he’s been selling topless photos of Amy to his fellow inmates, and how he has a new girlfriend and they’re trying to extort money from the troubled star.

Fielder-Civil is now on trial for assault and “perverting the course of justice,” or witness tampering, and things seem to be better between the two. Amy has been showing up to blow kisses at her husband, speaking out inappropriately in the courtroom, and telling the press how f’ing handsome and great he is. That doesn’t mean he’s beyond releasing this video and photos, especially considering how much he lies to her on tape and swears up and down he’s not recording:

In a sequence shot around May 2007—weeks after the couple eloped to wed in Miami—they are in a dingy crack den with Delboy-style bamboo patterned wallpaper.

Amy, 24, and a pal called Sarah giggle as they sing a string of racist lines set to the tune of kiddies’ favourite ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’.

Blake pretends NOT to record the unfolding events and eggs them on, saying: “Can we have a singsong of it?”

Sarah is at first reluctant but soon warms to the action as Amy enthusiastically sings:

“Blacks, Pakis, Gooks and Nips, Gooks and Nips!

“And deaf and dumb and blind and gay!”

She repeats the first line over again and on the word “Nips” Amy pulls her eyes into slits then pushes her boobs up in a gesture to her nipples.

The girls’ efforts are greeted warmly by Blake, who pledges: “Well done. I promise I wasn’t recording it.” Amy Winehouse’s shock show-off pose

He then adds to Sarah: “I swear on your life. I swear on your life.”

As the camera pans back we see a coffee table in front of Amy. On it are SIX cigarette lighters and what appears to be HEROIN on a foil—a typical druggie scene set for “chasing the dragon” by heating the drug from below then inhaling the smoke through a tube.

[From News of the World]

Amy seemed to clean up briefly right before the Grammys in early February. She gave a great performance and seemed genuinely touched to have received five awards, including best new artist. Her troubles go beyond her choice of companions, though, and she looks worse and is acting out in public more than she did last year when this video was taken.

It’s pretty disgusting how racist and stupid she is, and she doesn’t need to have the public know that she’s an ignorant bigot as well as a drug addict. That’s not something you joke about and I wonder if she’ll apologize. Her back up band is made up of black guys and she has fans all over the world. But Paris used the “n” word and that was caught on tape and she didn’t suffer much fall out unfortunately. This is a much worse offense in that she insults four groups with incredibly derogatory names and dismisses them by saying they’re “deaf, dumb, blind and gay,” as if that’s the most negative thing she can come up with. She’s managed to dismiss and insult seven groups in one sing-song rant and there will be many more people who are unwilling to work with her or buy her music now that this is out.

After everything that this 24 year-old woman has gone through you hope she’ll clean up and that someone will step in and help her. It seems like less of a possibility the more time passes, and one of the sad things about these photos is that she looks much healthier than she does now. The more photos and videos that come out of her doing drugs and acting like a fool the less I care what happens to her though. I don’t wish her any harm, but she’s dug herself a deep hole and she seems more than content to wallow in it, singing about how happy she is to roll around in the mud.

Photos are from News of The World, where there are many more, including some of her husband’s tattoo tributes to her.