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Amy Winehouse drank herself to death. This is the finding of the inquest on the singer, probably the same report that was accidentally mailed to the house of a random earlier this week before they handed it in. Before today, we only had the inconclusive autopsy results and the toxicology results that revealed nothing of value. Her parents were left to speculate and proselytize the singer’s new and improved lifestyle since they thought she’d quit drink and drugs cold turkey.

At the time of her death, Winehouse had no drugs in her system. However, today’s findings are that Winehouse drank herself to death with FIVE TIMES the legal limit of alcohol in her system, leaving British coroner Suzanne Greenaway to declare her death the ‘unintended consequence’ of drinking too much. The 27-year-old’s official cause of death according to the coroner’s inquest is ‘death by misadventure… [from] alcohol toxicity.’ There were two large bottles and one small bottle of vodka found in the bedroom of her London home. Her doctor, Christina Romete, who last saw Winehouse the evening before her death and who praised Winehouse for quitting drugs, admitted she’d started drinking again and was ‘tipsy,’ but ‘calm’ and coherent and ‘able to hold a conversation,’ on her last visit. She was not depressed, noted the doctor. Winehouse’s family issued a statement after hearing today’s findings: ‘It is some relief to finally find out what happened to Amy. We understand there was alcohol in her system when she passed away; it is likely a build up of alcohol in her system over a number of days. The court heard that Amy was battling hard to conquer her problems with alcohol and it is a source of great pain to us that she could not win in time.’

The Winehouse family interview with Anderson Cooper didn’t land in his lap. He basically had to buy it, with a donation to the Amy Winehouse Foundation. Sounds about right. The media doesn’t usually directly pay for interviews. There’s always some convoluted method of buying people’s time, like paying five or six-figures for ‘photo/video licensing rights’ or whatever. And the interview with Amy Winehouse’s mother, father, brother, and last boyfriend is no different. Page Six reports that Cooper had to pay out for the first episode of his talk show, Cooper. Sources for P6 can’t seem to agree how much he paid to the foundation; one claims it’s in the six-figure range, another claims it’s a $30,000 donation.

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Amy Winehouse’s family will give their first sit down interview to Anderson Cooper on his new talk show. I have a feeling this is going to be a regurgitation of the information the family has shared with the British media, but at least this will be from the horse’s mouth. At the time of her death, Winehouse’ family were giving quotes about her living conditions, her health, how she was found, and her postmortem test results; her father was the main source of familial information and before the house was burgled, Mitch Winehouse was giving away her possessions to fans. And now it would appear her mother, father, brother and last boyfriend are going to speak to Cooper. The interview will become the first episode of Cooper, which needs a better name and launches September 12.

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Illegal drugs didn’t directly kill Amy Winehouse, according to her family who relayed the results of her toxicology report. Let’s pretend that she wasn’t degraded in body by years of illicit consumption of hard narcotics and killed indirectly by them. Like we can pretend there’s no such thing as prescription drugs. Because, frankly, it almost doesn’t matter at this point and we’ll never know whether she was really abusing anything prescribed by her doctor. It was confirmed today Winehouse had no illegal drugs in her system at the time of her death. However, she did drink. She may have been directly killed by the alcohol.

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I don’t know if I believe this story for two reasons 1) the source is the UK’s Daily Mirror… trash 2) there’s literally no proof or concrete account of this aside from the word of one woman whose grandddaughter was photographed with Amy Winehouse. It’s the word of the woman with no documents to back it up. Moreover, the grandmother says Winehouse hired a lawyer and was ‘in the process of adopting,’ which kind of doesn’t mean anything. It’s easy to make stuff like this up, posthumously. When Winehouse isn’t here to give her account of how she spent her time with the child. Idk. Well, it’s being reported by a bunch of outlets who didn’t ask to see the receipts, as fact, that Winehouse was ready and about to adopt 10-year-old Dannika Augustine, photographed above with the singer on one of Winehouse’s trips to St. Lucia. Winehouse reportedly met the girl in 2009 through her grandmother and she took the girl under her wing and wanted to raise her. Says the girl, ‘Amy was already my mother. I would call her mum and she would call me her daughter. She took care of me and we had fun together. I loved her and she loved me … She was the most amazing person and I was looking forward to living with her here or in London. I cannot believe she is gone. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.’ Says the girl’s grandmother, ‘Amy loved Dannika with all her heart. Amy used to beg me ‘I want to adopt Dannika. I want to take her to England.’ She was prepared to move to St Lucia to be her full-time mum. Amy wanted to have a child so bad. If she had not died, there is no doubt she would be here in St Lucia completing the adoption process. There is no way she would have done what she did to herself if Dannika was with her.’ Both parents reportedly okayed the supposed adoption and Winehouse reportedly purchased a ticket to return to St. Lucia next month.