As part of Amy Winehouse’s sad birthday (July 23), Tyler James wrote an article for the Mail on Sunday where he evokes his great friendship with the British singer but also and especially his addictions which were fatal to him. The star is part of the now sad club of 27, namely these personalities who died at the age of 27.
“Everyone in this world goes through these things from time to time” according to Mick Jagger
Tyler James returns in particular on his vacation on the island Mustique where Amy Winehouse would have secretly taken a large quantity of drugs. Once her stock was exhausted, the singer then leaned towards medication that a local doctor would have prescribed for her. Still according to his friend, Mick Jagger himself wanted to reassure him. “Don’t worry, she’ll be fine. Everyone in this world goes through these things from time to time ”, would have declared the leader of the Rolling Stones, who was also part of the trip. Mick Jagger would even have concluded with these words: Amy is a “rock star”, what she goes through is “normal” and that addiction is “part of the process”.
Between Amy’s demons, alcohol and bad influences
Friends since their teenage years, Tyler and the singer – who shared an apartment on the Camdem side – went their separate ways in 2004, as soon as the star began to “lose his mind”. But it was in this London accommodation that Tyler James met Amy Winehouse’s first demons. He says that every day, around 11 a.m., they would go to the pub to play pool. And according to Tyler, his friend ordered shots every 20 minutes. Excessive alcohol consumption in the middle of the day which would have pushed her to meet people “taking hard drugs”.
“Heroin needles in his bathroom” cost him a contract with the “James Bond” franchise
These famous English pubs are also the place where the star met the one who became her husband Blake Fielder-Civil. The latter, still according to Tyler, would have been the first to offer him heroin. An increasingly strong drug use, to the point of losing a contract with the famous James Bond franchise. The interpreter of Rehab was indeed to compose the soundtrack of the film “Quantum Of Solace” with Daniel Craig. But when her producer -Mark Ronson- learned that Amy had “heroin needles in her bathroom,” the contract was canceled. Only a sketch had been made.
Finally, still according to Tyler James, Amy Winehouse would also have confessed to having spent more than half a million pounds (or 580,000 euros) on illicit substances. “I spent around 500,000 pounds on drugs, she would have confided to him. I could have bought a house. I could have bought you a house. “
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