Amy can make her own choices

Amy can make her own choices

Shock horror news: Amy Winehouse does drugs. And there we were thinking she was just out for a jog when snapped running through freezing streets in her bra and bare feet the other week.
The singer's new “bootleg” video, published by The Sun, which shows her apparently smoking crack has now been “seized” by the Metropolitan Police. No doubt they are following the legal precedent set in the Kate Moss case: that while it is no longer deemed a crime to take drugs at a party, it is a serious offence to do so on the front page of a newspaper. Even if charges prove impossible, the Met gets its shot of celebrity PR.
Some claim that this storm in a crack pipe is important because Winehouse is a “role model”. Lord knows what they are on if they want pop stars to give our children moral guidance. Anyway, the fashion now is to hold up bad 'uns such as Amy as “reverse role models” to frighten da kids away. She can certainly look scary, but teenagers are a bit old for bogeywoman stories.
More understandably the cry went up to save the talented songstress by getting her into rehabilitation, even if it were against her will. Yet in one sense the “No, no, no” message of Rehab, her most famous song, is perfectly sensible: if people don't want to go, rehab is a pointlessly punitive exercise. Addicts give up when they are ready to, often prompted by a lifestyle change. But public pressure had only seemed to drive Winehouse closer to her druggie husband, now on remand charged with assault and perverting the course of justice (a case she too has been quizzed about: potentially far more serious than what she gets up to in her flat).