Family believes Amy Winehouse death due to alcohol withdrawal
By Alexandra Heilbron on July 29, 2011 | 3 Comments
Although the results of the toxicology report on Amy Winehouse won’t be available for several weeks, her family has spoken out, saying they believe when Amy gave up alcohol completely a month ago, it was too much of a shock for her tiny 4’11” frame. Her doctor apparently recommended that she cut back on drinking slowly, but instead she went cold turkey. A source close to Amy’s family told the British paper The Sun: “Abstinence gave her body such a fright they thought it was eventually the cause of her death.” Dr. Carol Cooper confirmed to The Sun that a complete withdrawal from alcohol could have killed the 27-year-old singer, saying, “The heaviest drinkers have a particularly severe form of alcohol withdrawal called delirium tremens, or DTs.” Amy’s mother Janis vows that her daughter was coherent and completely clean at the iTunes Festival the day before her death. However, an onlooker told the paper Amy downed “gallons” of gin and Red Bull and “drank the bar dry,” adding: “Amy was behaving really erratically but that was nothing out of the ordinary for her.”
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really we are just figuring thar out now!
Lets follow the evidence shall we? Wait for toxology results, then have your say. Stop speculating on what went wrong. I dont believe she “down gallons of gin & Red Bull,& drank the bar dry.” That is imppossible to do. Maybe we should call up “Mythbusters” & find out what the average for “Drinking the Bar dry” for an average 4’1″ frame for a woman would be. Compared to some alcoholics who are in rehab, they could not possibly do what Winhouse have done, at least she went cold turkey, stayed away from drinking, but she could of had help through the process, with doctors help. Some of those celebrities, come out of rehab & go back to parting harder than ever! To Amy Winehouse may she rest in piece. My condolences to her family.
one more death caused by red bull???