Secondhand Smoke Causes Amy Winehouse’s Manager To Quit In Disgust
And the hits keep coming for Amy Winehouse. It has been revealed that her manager Thom Stone quit after inhaling secondhand smoke from heroin on the tour bus:
Mr Stone confirmed he had quit after it was said that he found working with Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil who is currently behind bars, was harming his health.
The last straw was when Amy, 24, and Blake were arrested with cannabis in Norway last month.
The Sun reported today that doctors found heroin in Mr Stone’s system after he inhaled it passively on Amy’s tour bus.
The tour manager is said to have produced a doctor’s note which revealed traces of the class A drug in his blood.
“He insisted to the management team that the only way that could have happened would have been through inhaling it from Blake and Amy. Thom just had it up to here. It was a nightmare job,†the paper reported.
Amy is an admitted heroin user, and apparently this is having more of an adverse affect on her career and the lives of people around her than it has before.
She managed to pull off a performance in Glasgow after her horrid show in Birmingham, where she swore at the audience, wandered around the stage, and forgot the words to her song. Her record company insisted that the Glasgow concert would go ahead, despite Amy’s reluctance at being away from London where her husband, Blake Whatever-Whatever, is incarcerated.
So here’s my question…how bad does the train have to wreck before somebody close to her realizes that she’s just being whored out for money? She’s touring now, promoting her album Back To Black, and giving concerts that are at best circus sideshows. All across Europe the reviews have been disastrous. She’s appeared on awards shows looking completely stoned out of her mind, and in an interview with Blender magazine she made no sense and even fell asleep. Are they just wanting to squeeze the last drop of lifeblood out of her, like a worn-out dishrag, before tossing her aside for the next big thing?
Who knows. It might take hitting rock bottom, with her career in shambles, before Amy finally realizes that she’s turned her life into a disaster and needs help. I think Blake being away from her is a good thing right now, even though Amy is by all accounts distraught, because it gives her some space and a breather from his influence. She makes her own decisions, she’s as much to blame for her life as anyone, but when you’ve got someone like that in your life it makes it harder to break away and clean yourself up. I just hope that she can do it before we read one morning that something tragic has happened.
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completely agree…it’s sad that someone with so much talent does this to herself…I’ve always wondered how does someone function doing that many drugs & drinking and the answer is that they don’t. sad, really.
Comment by andrea — November 20, 2007 @ 9:06 pm
Two things..
One, I don’t buy the manager’s story, with the second hand smoke bit at all. I’m sure there is someone in his life or some reason why he is hiding behind the second hand smoke deal..I mean for him to have traces of heroin in his system from second hand smoke, wouldn’t he have to doing shotgun hits from Amy? I think he probably took a “taste of the hard life” from time to time and is trying to cover his tracks. If not then I think he is the first music manager in the history of rock and roll to get that stoned without getting stoned.
Two, can you dig up that Blender nod off article? I never saw that one..
See ya on the radio! BTR that is….
Comment by Laron Cue — November 21, 2007 @ 1:33 am
Hey, Laron…I haven’t seen the Blender article myself (or I don’t think I have…after a while all the articles run together), but I have seen it referenced in more than one spot. I’ll look it up tonight…I’m just sitting here watching Goldeneye, what else do I have to do?
Comment by k — November 21, 2007 @ 1:49 am
Found it. And before Bond had to do away with that crazy Onatopp.
You can read it here.
And ha…I won’t be doing much on the radio besides going “Uh-huh” to my esteemed colleague’s intelligence!
Comment by k — November 21, 2007 @ 2:02 am
Oh, and btw…even if the manager’s story is bogus and he’s just hiding behind Amy’s use, the real story here is that Amy has drug use for him to hide behind. She’s self-destructing before our eyes and apparently she’s being wrung out as much as possible before there’s just no more. Then they can move on to the next big thing.
She needs serious help and fast.
Comment by k — November 21, 2007 @ 2:25 am
Agreed, Amy is out of control and needs serious help. Let’s hope she gets it soon.
LOL at the “Uh-huh”s during the radio show..next time just start talking about the latest gossip and leave them in the dust…
btw, what..no Glosslip show???
Comment by Laron — November 26, 2007 @ 11:37 pm
Ha…you’ll have to discuss that one with my esteemed colleague! She’s the one in charge of it, not me…I am just along for the ride!
Comment by k — November 27, 2007 @ 12:00 am