Dad: "Poor Amy won't listen to me," but is crack really the problem ?

What do you do when you’ve fucked up as a parent and your daughter turned celebrity won’t listen to you anymore? You tell the national newspaper that your daughter will be “sitting there like an old person with a mask over her face struggling to breathe” if she doesn’t stop smoking crack.  That’s what Mitch, Amy Winehouse’s obviously over-concerned father did.   Doesn’t he understand that it is really his daughter’s delicate emotional state that needs tending to?  After all, the reason she was in the hospital in the first place was because she fainted when she realized that the Canadian fans who had been waiting in front of her house all day left.

That delicate emotional state obviously comes from the fact that Mitch’s daughter is a spoiled brat.  After all, who would expect their fans to wait outside until they could catch a glimpse of their object of worship?  It was probably a hot day.  The fans themselves could have fainted from the heat.  That would have made more sense.  Then Mitch wouldn’t have been so worried about his daughter’s crack habit.  He could have told the Sunday Mirror something like, “If my daughter doesn’t stop torturing her fans soon, she’ll be sitting there like an old person with crumpled fan letters in her hands struggling to remember the day she was famous.”