Amy Winehouse is on the verge of checking into rehab, a close friend said today.

The 23-year-old singer is “seriously considering” the move after emergency treatment in a London hospital for a suspected overdose.

Despite growing concern at her wild partying, the star had always said she would not seek professional help.

But a friend revealed she’s “very close” to changing her mind, adding: “Amy got a massive fright when she was hospitalised and is finally coming round to everybody’s pleadings with her to go to rehab.

“She now realises she may need help as her lifestyle finally take its toll. She’s currently discussing the best plan of action with close friends and family.”

Amy is resting at an undisclosed location after being released from University College London Hospital.

A spokesman for Island Records said she was suffering “severe exhaustion” but reports suggested she had her stomach pumped yesterday after she collapsed.

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First of all, Amy Winehouse freaks me out big time, but this picture goes beyond freaky. This is the most recent pic of the British songstress, and all I have to say is girl needs a sandwich…blech!

Amy Winehouse has graduated from self-destruction to self-mutilation.

In the new issue of Spin, Winehouse, 23, is in rare form (which is not that rare for her), letting the naughty words fly, taking “long bathroom breaks” during the photo shoot, and later checking her nose in a shard of broken mirror.

Then, during the photo shoot, “she stands against the wall, flashes popping as she gently carves ‘I LOVE BLAKE’ onto her bare stomach with that shard of mirror,” in honor of husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

See interview highlights below to see how Amy feels about being a celebrity, what’s on her iPod, and how she gets her hair so high. And now, a few words from our second filthy-mouthed Brit of the day…

On getting kicked out of multiple schools:
“I was just disruptive, I suppose. I loved school and I loved learning, but things piled up, I guess.”

On what music she listens to:
“I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric…I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t send you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.”

On her father, a taxi driver named Mitch:
“We’re good friends. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about and neither do I.”

On why she writes:
“I write songs because I’m f—ked in the head and need to get something good out of something bad…I thought, ‘F—k, I’m going to die if I don’t write down the way I feel. I’m going to f—king do myself in.’ It’s nothing spectacular.”

On her infamous up do:
“A lot of practice, a lot of back-combing and hairspray.”

On temporarily breaking up with now-husband Blake Fielder-Civil a few years ago:
“We were always close, but we got to the point where it was hurting other people for us to keep seeing each other. It just made sense for us to be together. I’m still singing about it every night on my knees, crying onstage. But when I’m with him, I feel like nothing bad can happen.”

On flubbing a performanceon Total Request Live:
“That was f–king horrible. When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting. I wanted to die.”

On being a celebrity:
“I don’t care. I don’t care about any of this, and I don’t have much of an opinion of myself. I don’t think people care about me, and I’m not in this to be a f—king role model…I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about. And if I did, I’d be a f—king c—t, wouldn’t I?”

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Amy Winehouse’s hair is one of them.  Here she is filming a new video yesterday in Hollywood.

The video for the song Tears Dry On Their Own sees the singer, famed for her distinctive hairstyles, walking past all forms of life, from prostitutes to policemen.

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