OlderAmy Winehouse Battling Emphysema
Amy Winehouse has early stage emphysema as a result of smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes and may need an oxygen mask to breathe if she cannot stop, her father told The Sunday Mirror, in an interview.
“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,” her father, Mitch Winehouse said.
Mitch also told of his fears as Amy underwent tests after a mystery lump was found on her chest during scans at private London hospital The Clinic.
He said, “After lots of tests they found a lump in Amy’s chest. A scan has shown it’s not cancerous and there are no traces of cancer in her blood. But they might need to double check.
Amy, 24, is still scheduled to sing at a concert in London on Friday celebrating the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the South African Nobel Prize-winner, and plans to take part in the Glastonbury music festival the following day.
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hope she gets better soon!
hopefully we’ll get a r.i.p thread soon.
wooot first
well, she got what she deserve..that’ll stop her..
I really wish people would stop asking her to perform at events and stuff, it is just celebrating the fact she is a mess.
Why does Nelson Mandela want any links to her? She has a good voice but she can’t perform well at all now!
I think she has amazing talent and this is quite sad that her life is such a train wreck. What a waste of a talent. I don’t wish anybody to die, I think that is a terrible thing to say #2.
Maybe this is the wake up call she needed and now she can clean up her drug problem once and for all before it is too late.
figures.
she should be put in jail for doing drugs.
she already has 10 photos leaked out of her smoking crack.
2-drug bust.
in about 1yr she’ll have a dead thread because of her being a drug addict.
I agree with Maddie. I was really angry when she won her Grammy (and wasn’t even there to accept it) because it just makes it seem like her behavior is acceptable. Despite her music being good, they should do something to show that her druggie lifestyle is not condoned and the only way to do that is through her work; besides, didn’t she like pass out at one of performances or something? who would want to see that?
that is what you get when you underestimate your health and well-being.
its not nice to say, but it is what amy disorved.
i just hope shell learn her lessons and get well soon. its really sad.
poor amy…
too bad for her!
too bad for her!
darn, thought this was Angelina Jolie when I first saw the pic.
Infamous, you post a disgusting thing, per usual.
don’t friggin smoke, doink.
I think this is horrible news! She should drop out of the Nelson Mandela gig and Glasonbury. She needs a rest and she should also get help to quit the **** and the cocaine! Get well soon!
It’s pretty sad that there are rolemodels out there like this and that people are just like “poor her I hope she learns her lesson” and yet there are people who are completely ripped apart for being “too sexy”. It’s disgusting, yes she has a problem and hopefully she can resolve them - but I would rather have my daughter be “too sexy” than get emphysema at 24 because she’s already done too many drugs. She should lose her career over this type of behaviour. If she had a regular job she would have already lost it.
I,m sorry to hear this about her. My father died of this disease.
I hope she gets treatment and gets on with her talanted life.
Joe
She obviously has self-loathing issues & they run quite deep. Just look at her: she’s all but destroyed herself inside and out.
She’s the current poster child for slow suicide. There’s nothing left but this cartoon-like caricature of a human being. She should have been involuntarily committed a long time ago & given some real help. You cannot put a junkie or an alcoholic on the Honor System. It’s too much to ask. They’re just not capable of it.
Winehouse is now nothing more than yet another talent swallowed up by the culture than infiltrates The Arts, and that’s a loss to everyone.
Amy should go to the gym and start doing some cardio
Once you are diagnosed with this disease, it does not go away, even with cessation of smoking, and in her case, drugs you smoke. What a horrible, long, suffering-type disease. You slowly suffocate to death.
Sad how some incredibly talented people have a need to self-destruct.
Hope she rolls over and dies soon.
So sad. No one made her do anything she didn’t want to but I still think that so called husband of hers helped her along. I’ve followed her a long while and the dude was bad news from jumpstreet. Yeah, her emotional rollercoaster ride w/him has birthed her best songs, but if think about it, not one of them is about being happy. The guy dumped her for another until Amy’s star started to rise/ the bucks started to flow, and bam, back into her life strolls the wannabe nothingmuch. I would it if “outa of love for her,” the organizers of Nelson Mandela’s bash would let another celebrate him with song. She’s going to die if someone doesn”t finally say enough.
jpf
i feel sorry for the self hatred and addiction that has led her to this state but i don’t feel sorry for her illness. there are many people who are ill and they have done nothing to contribute to their particular illness. she has brought this on herself. she is talented but she is a horrible role model. she should not be rewarded with fame or fortune for being a bad example to impressionable people. i hope she gets better …..and does so in PRIVATE. this shouldn’t be anyone’s business but her family’s. i’m sick of hearing about her spiral into hell. her parents need to stfu and spend their time with her instead of talking to the press. they haven’t been good parents (obviously) in the past…but they better start being good ones NOW before she dies.
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