Amy Winehouse‘s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil has denied {that a} new portrayal of the late soul singer’s life will not be a ‘whitewash’ of the position he performed in introducing her to medication – as he mentioned he continues to obtain loss of life threats from devoted followers.
Blake Fielder-Civil met Amy within the early-to-mid-2000s, marrying her in 2007 before divorcing her to ‘set her free’ – however their tumultuous relationship noticed him introduce her to heroin, for which devotees of the star have by no means forgiven him.
The 41-year-old is portrayed by Jack O’Connell in new biopic Again To Black, which has been slammed as a ‘whitewash’ of some features of Amy’s life – together with its portrayal of Blake, described by one good friend as akin to a ‘Disney prince’.
However Blake says the movie is an ‘correct’ illustration of the connection he had with Amy, who died in 2011 on the age of 27 – including that he continues to ‘bear the cross’ of her loss of life and receives loss of life threats on-line.
Different stars have defended the movie’s portrayal of Amy, performed by Marisa Abela, and people round her together with Mitch, who has endorsed the movie after criticising unflinching 2015 documentary Amy’s portrayal of him as an uncaring father.
Blake Fielder-Civil has been talking about his portrayal in Amy Winehouse biopic Again To Black on Good Morning Britain
Fielder-Civil, 41, was married to Amy Winehouse for 2 years in a tumultuous relationship that noticed him introduce her to heroin (pictured: the couple in 2007)
Marisa Abela and Jack O’Connell as Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic Again To Black
Blake informed Good Morning Britain he noticed the movie on Thursday, forward of its common launch at this time – and denied claims made by associates of Amy that the movie inaccurately portrayed him ‘like a Disney prince’.
‘It is a surreal expertise watching a movie about someone you recognise – similar with Jack, that performed me,’ he mentioned.
‘We had been collectively, we had been completely in love – from that to the habit there have been tough elements to course of.
‘It was virtually therapeutic in a method – I used to be seeing a extra correct illustration of the connection.
‘Not being within the sense of being form of like a whitewash – simply within the sense it wasn’t all about habit. As a lot as which may be the salacious ingredient, it was solely a facet (of the connection).’
Blake, who just lately acquired a brand new teardrop tattoo under his proper eye, informed Kate Garraway and Adil Ray he had achieved ‘nothing however attempt to take accountability for fairly a very long time’ for the position he performed in Amy’s addictions.
He admitted in a 2013 interview that he had launched the singer to heroin after utilizing it himself ‘three or 4 instances’.
However in 2015 he sought to distance himself from claims his selections contributed to her eventual loss of life, telling an interviewer Amy ‘did produce other addictions earlier than she met me’.
‘I do not discuss it usually however I felt I’ve achieved just about nothing however attempt to take accountability for fairly a very long time – it has been a cross to bear,’ he informed GMB.
‘I’ve had loss of life threats on-line and on social media – Amy evokes lots of fierce fandom and devotion.’
And requested if he regretted introducing her to the exhausting drug, he mentioned: ‘The concept of heroin clearly it is a horrible, horrible drug – I used to be in habit as properly. It isn’t as black and white as that.
‘I used to be a really very younger individual and I believed I had all of the solutions. After all I remorse any medication.
‘If I had recognized the way it was going to (find yourself) I’d’ve been way more cautious in regards to the issues I used to be doing and the individuals I used to be doing it with.’
Again To Black, directed by Nowhere Boy filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson, has been criticised for its allegedly overly sympathetic portrayals of Blake.
One good friend informed the Mail: ‘It’s extra like they’re a liked up Disney Princess and her Prince – Blake comes throughout as a captivating and loveable rogue, somewhat than a completely damaged drug addict who dragged Amy into the depths of depravity.’
One other added of the film, which is out at this time: ‘Amy seems beautiful and harmless, and her music and expertise comes throughout fantastically, however to let Blake off the hook is simply improper.’
Sam Taylor-Johnson has mentioned of the portrayal of Blake: ‘We needed to perceive why Amy fell in love with him, so it wasn’t about making a one-dimensional villain.
‘We needed to fall in love with him to know why she wrote one of many biggest albums about their love.
‘By way of Blake, it wasn’t my place to forged judgement on someone who was clearly an addict, and on the 2 of them having this intense, albeit poisonous, love affair.’
Critics additionally questioned the portrayal of Amy’s father Mitch Winehouse, performed by Eddie Marsan. The film has been endorsed by the Winehouse property.
Eddie has mentioned he did not want to play a role that ‘sanitised him or demonised him’, including that he thought Mitch was a ‘loving father… in an unattainable state of affairs.’
Director of the brand new Amy Winehouse biopic Again To Black Sam Taylor-Johnson has been lambasted by associates of the late singer for glamourising her husband Blake Fielder-Civil (Sam pictured final evening)
Jack O’Connell, Marisa Abela, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Eddie Marsan on the Again To Black premiere earlier this week
Again to Black actor Eddie Marsan has dismissed the ‘narrative’ that both Amy Winehouse’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil or father Mitch Winehouse had been guilty for her loss of life
The English actor, 55, who performs Mitch Winehouse within the biopic (pictured with Marisa Abela as Amy) as a substitute mentioned that habit needs to be considered because the ‘major villain’
Blake says he hasn’t spoken to Mitch in years – however believes Amy would need the 2 to make amends.
‘Mitch is a father, I am a father, I perceive his place on me, I actually do.
‘However I hope he might see there was genuinely love there, and I liked Amy very, very a lot, and she or he liked me too.
‘If there was something that might carry her again, I’d clearly (do it). She was all the time saying we two (Mitch and Blake) ought to communicate.’
Blake final spoke about his turbulent relationship with Amy – who later wrote signature track Again To Black about him after he left her for an ex-girlfriend – in September, when he mentioned he would change ‘virtually every thing’ about his earlier life.
He informed GMB final 12 months: ‘If it wasn’t for sure components I feel it might have been a unique consequence. All the pieces occurred in a short time for Amy. We had been younger.’
Blake added of Amy’s addictions: ‘I do (get blamed for them) and that is okay. I am unable to change what different individuals really feel about that, however for me personally, I wanted to cease carrying that burden. I’ve carried it for over 10 years.
‘I am the one individual inside that story that is ever held any accountability, I attempted to say I made some enormous errors. I used to be a 20 one thing previous drug addict.’
The pair married in Miami in 2007 after an on-off relationship and had been pictured months later after a livid bust-up the place it emerged that they had been taking heroin.
The next 12 months, Blake was jailed for his half in an assault on a pub landlord which led to Amy’s well-known Grammy Awards tribute to, ‘my Blake, incarcerated’.
Blake filed for divorce from the singer shortly after his launch.
He had a son in Might 2011, two months after Amy’s loss of life, whereas his daughter Lola was born in April 2013.
Following Amy’s loss of life in 2011, an inquest gave a verdict of misadventure after discovering that she had 416mg of alcohol per decilitre in her blood; a second inquest concluded she died of unintended alcohol poisoning.
