Winehouse Spent $2K on Drugs Night Before Death

Drug fixer says singer bought crack cocaine, heroin
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 1, 2011 9:55 AM CDT
Amy Winehouse Spent Nearly $2K on Drugs Night Before She Died: Drug 'Fixer'
British singer Amy Winehouse arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court, in west London, on March 17, 2009.   (Getty Images)

The night before she was found dead, Amy Winehouse reportedly asked a drug "fixer" friend to hook her up with a dealer—and she bought nearly $2,000 dollars worth of crack cocaine and heroin, the fixer says. Tony Azzopardi, who met Winehouse through her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, will be interviewed again by detectives today; police have said there was no evidence of drugs in Winehouse's home.

Azzopardi tells the Daily Mirror Winehouse pulled up beside him in a cab around 11:30pm, looking "good, you know, fit—like she’d been clean for a while and filled out a bit." But she was upset, he says, that Fielder-Civil had been calling from prison and "hassling" her. Fielder-Civil, meanwhile, calls his relationship with Winehouse "unhealthy and co-dependent," since they often fought over drugs, the Daily Mail reports. That relationship will be documented on a posthumous third Winehouse album dealing with her marriage and divorce, the Mail adds (More Amy Winehouse stories.)

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