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Amy Winehouse's mother on her untimely death: 'I could never picture Amy as an older person'

Janis Winehouse has revealed that while she wouldn't say she predicted her daughter Amy's untimely death, she could never see her as an older woman.

58-year-old Janis explained to Britain's The Sun newspaper that the 'Back To Black' songstress, who died at just 27-years-old, would have been 30 this year, but she always felt that it was a birthday her daughter wasn't 'meant' to celebrate:

"When I think Amy would have been 30 this year, it doesn’t feel right. I’m not saying I always foresaw this but I wasn’t surprised. I couldn’t see Amy as an older person. She was this young girl who exploded into the world like a firecracker and then it was, ‘OK, I’m done — I’m off’. Amy was never meant to be 30.”

Janis also opened up about Amy's attitude as a teenager, adding: "Instead of wanting to meet the boys, she was bored and wanted to leave. Parties bored her. What did she enjoy? Singing, writing, reading about jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan."

“Her attitude to food was also very upsetting because she was always trying a dreadful diet. She’d say, ‘I found a really good diet Mum, I chew the food and spit it out’. So she’d get her favourite KFC every night and spit it out. She lost 2st until she was stick thin, like a concentration camp victim. I don’t know whether I would have been a different mother if I hadn’t had MS. I would certainly have had more energy and more fight against Amy."

 

 

 

 

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