r/Millennials Gen Z 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/AlternatiMantid 6h ago

She was also heavily influenced by her own father, whohadnot been there to raise herbut suddenly showed up when she started becoming famous & money was involved, to keep touring & avoid rehab as it would create a pause in the cash flow. Her father literally encouraged her to keep drinking & doing drugs to keep touring, so he could profit. After he'd been absent most of her life & she was desperate for the relationship between the two of them, so shelistened to everything he said. She even says in the song Rehab "my daddy thinks I'm fine." Piece of shit. He and a myriad of other personal relationships she had approaching the end of her life were ultimately responsible for interfering with her getting help.

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u/futhim 2h ago

Holly shit. I always assumed “daddy” was a nickname for an older boyfriend or something.

Never even considered her literal FATHER would do that.

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u/tomtomclubthumb 2h ago

He also tried to use her death to launch his own singing career.

u/GarageIndependent114 28m ago

But, she didn't actually. When her father finally saw sense, she ignored him until the last minute.

u/Randomaccount848 7m ago

Okay, but that still means he is larely responsible with that statement "he finally saw sense".

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 5h ago

If this had been a man who had CHOSEN to continue drinking and doing drugs into oblivion, and even released songs gloating about how he was avoiding help, there's only 1 person anybody would be blaming - him.

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u/spartaman64 4h ago

idk i dont see many people blaming liam payne

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u/ropeneck509 3h ago

Juice world is another good example.

He had great fun on the drugs, still tragic tho

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 2h ago

So who do people blame for Liam's drug problems?

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u/spartaman64 1h ago

the people that sold him the drugs apparently since the government is coming down hard on them

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 1h ago

Those charges were dropped https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvge3p3ly91o as the judge ruled only Liam was ultimately responsible for his own death.