Winehouse very ill indeed

Four days out from her scheduled performance at Glastonbury, Amy Winehouse is flirting with the lung disease emphysema. Naturally, her Dad is more than happy to talk about it with the tabloids.

“She’s got emphysema – it’s in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe,” Mitch Winehouse told UK rag the Sunday Mirror. “With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She’s got 70 per cent lung capacity.”

Speaking with BBC1 today, Winehouse Senior had toned down his gloomy assessment. “Obviously, if she doesn’t quit smoking, it’s going to get worse, like everyone else…with patience her lungs will recover completely.” With fathers like these, who needs spin doctors?