I’ve heard so many sad, sad stories about Amy Winehouse that I’m about to hop on a plane and straighten her butt out. Her parents are saying that they feel she is still in need of saving.

I think they should just commit her already. Or get her on Celebrity Rehab.

Janis Winehouse says, “The need to rescue her is enormous. I just want her to be OK, and I would do whatever it took to make that right.”

The “Rehab” singer was hospitalized for supposed dehydration last month and had to cancel her comeback performance in London. Her father, Mitch, claims she is in a drug-treatment program, but still boozing.

“For the last six months, there’s been a remarkable recovery,” he tells the news station. “A gradual recovery, which is good. With slight backwards steps—more drink backward steps, if you follow my drift.”

“Amy is in denial all the time,” her mother says. “She probably feels trapped, her body is trapping her. But I know with addiction you do not have the choice, because the substance itself directs you. I want to say to her, ‘Amy, what are you doing? Don’t you know what you’re doing?’ But she by then has got herself on to it to help her get through, and I understand that.”

“I need my daughter to be a whole person again,” Mitch adds.

Furthermore, the star’s father is anxious about his daughter’s relationship with her estranged husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, and blames him for fostering her addictions.

“The option of them being together is too horrible to contemplate,” he says. “They are going to get divorced, and who knows what’s going to happen down the line.”

In the future, however, he may be willing to offer the pair his blessing.

“Amy and Blake have decided that they want to live their lives separately, and if they get back together again in the future and they’re both clean and they still love each other, that’s up to them.”

I feel for her, I really do. Addiction is such a tough thing to overcome. I hope can get her life together and release some really awesome music again.

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After a brutally bad gig in St. Lucia which she eventually walked off in the middle of and subsequently reportedly being hospitalized for chest pains, Amy Winehouse has cancelled her comeback shows in London.

The event, which was due to take place on May 31st and was organized by Island records for their 50th anniversary, would have been Amy’s first show in her home country in a year.

A statement released by Winehouse’s management said they “regretfully announced that Amy and her band will no longer be performing at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 31 May. Amy would like to apologise to her fans who bought tickets for the shows.”

Amy continues to live on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia where she is working on her 3rd studio album.

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It looks like Amy Winehouse is taking her efforts at keeping sober seriously. The often troubled, but exceptionally talented Winehouse is slated to play the St. Lucia Jazz Festival next month and has put in a rider request a month ahead of time.

Among the low key demands were tea and HP sauce. She also demanded that all crew and backstage personnel remain sober at all times. That’s quite a change from 2006 when she requested a litany of alcohol including Champagne, vodka, red wine and lager.

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Jay-Z who has worked with Beyonce and Kanye West, and who remixed Amy’s single Rehab in 2006 claims that he is keen to work with the troubled Amy in the studio.

Jay-Z says:

 ”Amy has a really powerful voice, it is so distinctive and beautiful. Hopefully in the future we could get together and work on some new material - I’d love to work with her again.”

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Amy Winehouse cracked her knuckles, adjusted her beehive – and to the delight of the 20 reporters in a London courtroom – spoke clearly from behind a clear plastic shield on the stand Tuesday morning.

Uttering only a few lines during a 15 minute hearing in the City of Westminster Magistrates Court, Winehouse proudly proclaimed her name as Amy Jade Civil – her married name. And, leaning forward to speak through a gap in the plastic, she pleaded “not guilty” when a charge of common assault against Sherene Flash was put to her.

The assault is alleged to have happened in September 2008 in Berkeley Square, London, at a high society ball.

Winehouse, 25, was dressed in a summery floral print, low-cut dress, which revealed her many tattoos and her bra strap, and four-inch pink stilettos. Asked at one point, as she fidgeted with her hair, if she was okay, she turned a security guard and said, “Me? I’m alright.”

Watching the proceedings from a few feet away was her father Mitch and a minder, who had driven her down to the court from her new home in Barnet, north London.

District judge and chief magistrate Timothy Workman set a trial date of July 23 and Winehouse was remanded on bail.

Leaving the hearing, the singer strutted and posed for the gathered photographers before being whisked away.

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