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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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Amy Winehouse’s father said his drug-ravaged daughter came “close to death” twice.

Mitch Winehouse said the singer was “lying in bed for days in a dark room” in the upcoming documentary “Saving Amy,” according to Hello! magazine.

“She was close to death twice,” he said. “We have been working a lot to get her to where she is right now.”
Where she is now is apparently drug-free, says Mitch Winehouse, who, while no fan of her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, still found it hard to inform Amy of his divorce filing following photos of her frolicking on the beach with rugby player Josh Bowman.

“I had to call Amy before she heard about [the divorce] from someone else,” Mitch Winehouse said. “She asked me, ‘Daddy, why does he want to divorce me?’ I said, ‘You know I don’t like him, but I have to admit that your behavior with another man is not what marriage is all about.’ ”

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This is just all sorts of wrong…

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Blake Fielder-Civil admits he introduced his wife, Amy Winehouse, to drugs in a new interview.

“I dragged Amy into it, and without me there is no doubt that she would never have gone down that road,” Fielder-Civil told the U.K.’s News of the World. “I ruined something beautiful.”

He said he would end their marriage to stop her from killing herself.

“Now I have to let her go to save her life. I am not abandoning her. I am doing this out of love,” he said. “I have had to live with that for the past year that I have been in prison and I have got so much remorse.”

In the interview, Fielder-Civil, 26, admitted to introducing Winehouse, 25, to crack cocaine and self-injury. He said that Winehouse only smoked marijuana before he gave her hard drugs. He also described watching Winehouse have a seizure after an all-day binge.

“It was heartbreaking seeing someone you love more than yourself, someone you would die for, someone you would kill for, on the floor shaking,” he said.

Fielder-Civil admitted that “it’s my fault” and said he’d been in tears and speaking to counselors about how he and Winehouse can’t be together.

“If it wasn’t for drugs, me and Amy would be so happy. Just without that in our lives — without crack and without heroin — Amy would be making beautiful music,” he said.

He reached out to Winehouse through News of the World: “I’m sorry that love isn’t enough… I’m sorry that we can’t be normal together.”

The couple wed in May 2007 in Miami Beach. They were both arrested for marijuana possession in October of that year. Fielder-Civil was then sent to jail after being charged with conspiracy involving alleged witness tampering. He was released Nov. 5.

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Troubled singer Amy Winehouse with her beehive back on, returns home after a night out at her favorite pub The Hawley Arms in Camden in London, UK.

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