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AMY'S PAIN
Amy Winehouse went 36 days without a proper meal in the weeks before she died reveals bombshell new book
AMY Winehouse went 36 days without a proper meal in the weeks before she died, a bombshell new book will claim.
Best-selling author Ian Halperin claims a close friend of Amy – who has never before spoken - described the star as looking like “she was living on fumes in those final weeks”.
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Back to Black singer Amy died from alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011 following a long battle with booze and drugs.
“She was living on fumes in those final weeks, she was rail thin and was existing on cigarettes and beverages; and when I saw beverages it wasn’t H2O,” said Halperin.
“In her final days Amy was despondent and this is a woman who was worth millions, it was terribly sad.”
It was widely known that Amy battled eating disorder bulimia and was often photographed looking unwell and emaciated.
On the first night of a "comeback" tour of Europe in Belgrade just a week before her death, she was visibly drunk, she could barely remember the lyrics she had written and was finally booed off stage by fans.
Days later her management cancelled the 12-date tour so Amy could get better.
Amy should have been saved, there was no reason for her to die.
“She tried a comeback in Europe, which was just terrible to put her in that light,” said Halperin, whose book 27 Heaven is being auctioned.
“It was just an awful performance. The friend said it was worse than Whitney Houston, worse than Michael Jackson for This Is It, it was just scary the shape she was in.”
Halperin says his book highlights how Amy should and could have been saved.
“The friend I interviewed said that Winehouse should have been saved, there was no reason for her to die,” he said.
“She came from a good family and having that circle of management and handlers, there was no reason for her to die.
“It was just people were looking more at her record sale receipts than her health charts.”
In her final days Amy was despondent and this is a woman who was worth millions, it was terribly sad.
He added: “People were starstruck for dollars and her fame, that’s what they were focused on.”
Halperin’s book, , is a tribute to five stars who died at 27 - Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy.
The one and only copy of the book will be available to the highest bidder in an for the NFT “Made it to 28,” Halperin’s collaboration with artist 93nido (Kevin Genido), who turned 28 Wednesday.
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The Canadian author reckons the auction which began online with NFT auction house Foundation on July 27 at 7.27pm, could raise anywhere between $40-60million.
The highest bidder will get the digital artwork by 93nido and original music composed by Halperin and the only physical copy of the book will be unlocked.
“It takes the limited edition to a whole new extreme,” he said.
An NFT is a digital-only block chain token, the first of which fetched a staggering $69 million (£50 million) at Christie's auction house for the artist Beeple in March this year.
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Halperin added: “This is my best book ever, it’s 18 years of work. It’s a beautiful piece about five rock stars whose life got cut short.”
The New York Times best-seller has written several blockbuster books.
In 2009 he published a book charting the untold story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s and even predicted that the pair would split up seven years later.
His other hit book, Unmasked, about singer Michael Jackson's final years, was also made into a film, Gone Too Soon.
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The writer and filmmaker also recently exposed paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's crimes in his recent book Sex, Lies And Dirty Money.
Halperin plans to use a lot of the money from his latest piece to help victims of child sex trafficking and also pressure Prince Andrew to come clean about his dealings with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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