Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil insists he's 'not responsible' for her death
Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil has insisted her death was not his "responsibility", and he claimed the former couple were talking about potentially reconciling shortly before her passing.
Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil has insisted her death was not his "responsibility".
Blake - who was married to superstar singer Amy from 2007 until 2009 – says he would "put [his] hand up" if he was responsible for the death of the late star, who died of accidental alcohol poisoning in 2011, aged 27.
Speaking on Paul C Brunson's We Need To Talk podcast, he said: "My stance now is that I know a lot of people, especially people reading media twenty years ago would have an idea that Amy's passing is my responsibility.
"As I've always said - I never shirk from any responsibility. If I've done something, I'll put my hand up to it, but I'm OK.
"I'm not OK, but I've made my peace with... yeah, I had a part to play.
"Amy herself had agency, and that is in no way at all disrespecting her by saying that, but Amy did what she wanted to do and even knowing the drinking had started to hurt her, she carried on."
Amy struggled with drug and alcohol issues, but Blake has insisted she experimented with drugs before she met him.
He added: "I need to defend myself slightly on things, you know it's not fair to the people who love me to think untruths.
"Amy had started trying cocaine with their ex-partner.
"There are pictures of Amy at the BRITs with, you know, as they do 'powder up the nose', you know, and, yeah, it was known. It was known that Amy had experimented with drugs and it was nothing to do with me.
"The heroin was something as I said that I tried, let's say ten times, smoked it over a period of six months with some friends.
"That's where I was at with that. But yeah, the first time she did it was with me and it was probably my sixth time."
Blake - who was in jail when Amy died, carrying out a 32-month sentence for domestic burglary and firearm offences - insisted he and the Back to Black hitmaker were talking about potentially reconciling shortly before she died.
He added: "The week Amy passed, I was in jail, unfortunately.
"We were still very much talking about the possibility of reconciling again."
