Amy Page #7

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Get out of the way!

For Album of the Year:

Amy Winehouse for Back to Black.

For Best Female

Pop Vocal Performance:

Amy Winehouse for Rehab.

Can somebody wake her up

this afternoon around 6:00

and tell her?

Drunk ass.

For Best New Artist,

the nominees are...

We did everything

within our power to help Amy.

But you can't force treatment

on somebody.

And I felt that

that's Amy's responsibility

to get herself well.

I'm sorry...

Okay, fellas, make some room,

please.

- This way, this way.

- Can't see the steps.

By then, she was incredibly

famous, very wealthy,

and she had a complete

infrastructure around her

where everybody

was doing everything for her.

And that's not real life.

We had the Grammys coming up.

I said, "You need to be clean."

If you're not clean,

you're not doing anything."

So I had a contract drawn up

and it said,

"You, Amy Winehouse,

"have agreed

to go to a facility now.

"You're never gonna make

another record again,

"you're never going

to perform ever again

unless you get clean."

And God bless her, she did.

Live,

it's music's

biggest night of the year

as the National Academy

of Recording Arts and Sciences

presents

the annual Grammy Awards.

This is going live tonight

thanks to the Grammys

in the States, okay?

Now, the lady behind me

is up for six awards!

She's already won two.

Grazie!

Thank you!

Ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome

two Grammy favourites:

Natalie Cole

and Tony Bennett.

Good evening.

Grammy history has never

sounded or looked any better

than this man right here.

That's right!

Dad, Dad, Tony Bennett.

These are this year's nominees

for Record of the Year.

Irreplaceable:
Beyonc.

The Pretender:

Foo Fighters.

Umbrella:
Rihanna,

featuring Jay-Z.

What Goes Around Comes Around:

Justin Timberlake.

His album's called

What Goes Around Comes Around?

And Rehab:
Amy Winehouse.

And the Grammy goes to...

Amy Winehouse!

Amy!

Uh...

thank you to everyone

at Island Records.

Everyone at EMI Music

Publishing.

To Raye Raye,

to Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi.

To my mum and dad.

For my Blake,

my Blake incarcerated.

And for London!

This is for London!

It was a beautiful evening.

You get those awards

like that...

it just made all the work

seem worthwhile.

Amy's completely clean

and looking amazing.

It's just overwhelming.

I was just hysterically crying.

I was so overwhelmed,

I was so proud of her.

And I was just flashing

our whole life, our childhood.

And then she saw me crying.

Juliette, come up.

She grabbed me,

pulled me up onstage

and took me off the stage.

And I was having

a bit of a panic attack.

I was, like, "I can't believe

this is happening."

This is amazing.

I'm so proud of you."

And I'm looking at her,

trying to get some form

of reaction, and she went,

"Jules, this is so boring

without drugs."

And I felt really, really,

really sad for her.

Amy? Amy?

Amy, how do you feel

after winning a Grammy?

- Congratulations.

- Did you enjoy it?

- Whoops. Sorry.

- I'm going to see my husband.

I was staying

at the K-West Hotel.

Very late in the night,

she knocks on the door,

and I'm alone.

She comes in,

and she just sits on the couch.

I remember feeling

like really happy for her,

and also concerned,

'cause she really didn't know

how to be that thing

that she had been pushed

to become from her own success.

Then she pulled out

this aluminum foil.

She said,

"Does this bother you?"

And I said, "Amy, I love you."

"I don't mind that you get high,

but I mind that you get high."

She did what she did

and I was, like,

"This is someone

who is trying to disappear."

Gents, get away from the door,

please.

F*** off, please. Sorry, mate.

I was called out

to do security for her.

The security that she had,

it just could not handle

the whole paparazzi situation.

- See ya.

- Night-night, Amy.

I could feel

that she was a humble person,

but she was just caught up

in a bad situation.

She was not well at all:

Physically, mentally not well.

All she ever wanted

was people to tell her,

"Pack it in, stop it."

And me and Lauren

would not tolerate any of it.

It was Nick that said,

"The only thing you girls can do

"is show her you don't want

to be a part of it,

and when she needs help,

you're there for her."

Tough love.

And I just said to her,

"If you want me to help you,

I'll help you.

"I love you, but I don't like

who you've become,

and I don't want

to be around you."

Where a lot of money

and a lot of expectation

is at stake,

people's ideas

become a bit skewed.

They want to try

and get it sorted out

in a way that doesn't upset

this financial trajectory

that's going on.

From the 6th of September,

we're not gonna be doing

any more work

for the foreseeable future.

Amy's going to be concentrating

on writing her new album.

Uh... there's five gigs,

which, contractually,

we are obliged to do.

There's a couple this weekend.

It was all over the media

that Amy was getting $1 million

for some shows.

Huge money. But by that point,

it was much more likely

to not be a good show

than to be a good show.

She just wanted to get better.

She knew that things were wrong,

and she was just very exhausted

and tired

of the whole situation.

She couldn't escape her life

in this horrible goldfish bowl.

She'd began to unravel in public

and the media treatment

pushed her

further and further

over the edge.

D'you see Amy Winehouse

in the paper this week?

My God!

She looks like a campaign poster

for neglected horses.

Easy, lad.

It was like a feeding frenzy.

Suddenly,

it was cool to crack jokes

about a bulimic's appearance

or her drug addictions.

According to contactmusic.com,

Amy Winehouse's next album

features songs about cooking,

about cooking.

That's what they say.

Cooking crystal meth,

black-tar heroin.

Amy, cheer up.

She couldn't escape it.

No one would leave her alone.

It was just disgusting.

The mainstream media

was just all over her.

Amy Winehouse,

she's like a... a mad person.

St. Lucia was our place.

We were supposed to be there

for a week,

we ended up there

for, like, six months.

She decided that St. Lucia

was a place

that she really liked,

and she invited me to go.

You know, as soon as she went

to St. Lucia,

there was no more crack cocaine.

That was done.

And that's when

the heroin stopped.

But give her a free bar,

of course she's gonna drink.

It was kind of obvious

that she was just supplementing

alcohol for drugs.

I haven't seen Amy

for six weeks.

We've got a lot to talk about,

a lot of exciting things

happening.

We're talking

about the forthcoming album,

some other business matters.

So I think it's... it's gonna be

an exciting time.

Ah-ah! Naughty!

Amy, Amy!

She was, like,

"Why is he bringing another

camera crew to St. Lucia?

"Dad, you want money?

I'll give you money.

"Why are you doing

your life story,

which is really my life story?"

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