Amy Winehouse's Brother On Amy's Death: "Bulimia Killed My Sister, Not Alcohol"
Amy Winehouse's brother Alex Winehouse revealed to The Observer it was bulimia and not an alcohol or drug abuse that killed his sister two years ago at the age of 27.
Winehouse stated that Amy began purging at the age of 17 with a group of pals.
"They'd put loads of rich sauces on their food, scarf it down and throw it up," Winehouse was quoted as saying, explaining: "They stopped doing it, but Amy never really did...We all knew she was doing it, but it's almost impossible (to tackle) especially if you're not talking about it. It's a real dark, dark issue."
According to Winehouse, had his sister not had an eating disorder she would've been "physically stronger."
"All she wanted to be was a singer and have a good career and that was it really," he claimed, adding: "(The attention) was slightly out of whack with what she was. She won the Brit in 2007 and no one knew who she was before that. I remember bumping into her on the tube once and she was on her own. Then, all of a sudden, that was it. In the space of one evening she'd gone from being able to do whatever she wanted to not being able to do that ever again."
"The problem with being (famous) is - how many people tell you "No"? No one does," he was quoted as saying.
Asked about what Amy would've said about the media attention that ensued her passing he stated: "she would have hated it."
"She would have been..." He assumes her voice, high-pitched and bemused: "'It's just me, why do you want an exhibition?'"
Check out Alex Winehouse's full interview on: The Guardian.co.uk.
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