It’s been a decade since Amy Winehouse’s untimely death, after the incredibly talented performer passed away from alcohol poisoning at the age of 27. In the years that followed, there were many adaptations of her life on-screen but now her mother Janis Winehouse-Collins, is challenging the cautionary tale about her daughter.
In 2015, Asif Kapadia directed an award-winning documentary about the life and death of British singer-songwriter, which used previously unseen archive footage and personal testimonies of dazzled fans and people who worked with her.
The film Amy, won a total of 30 awards – including an Oscar for Best Documentary – but the singer’s father Mitchell complained that it was unbalanced and “tainted” at the time.
Now Janis too, has criticised the ground-breaking motion picture.
In a new interview, she spoke out about her feelings towards the film.
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“You think you know my daughter,” she whispered.
“The drugs, the drink, the addiction, the destructive relationships.”
She added: “But there was so much more.”
Ahead of a new BBC2 documentary Amy Winehouse: 10 Years On, Janis – accompanied by family members and close friends of Amy – will tell “a new female-driven interpretation of her life, her loves and her legacy.”
Back to present day, Janis recalled her daughter growing up and how she was a free spirit from an early age.
“I could say no and she’d do what she wanted,” Janis told Radio Times.
“But she wasn’t nasty, she loved her mum and dad and her brother, she was loyal to her friends.
“Clever with words, always writing things.”
In the new BBC doc, Amy’s friends remember intense teenage conversations about love, life and sexuality.
And despite taking her parent’s divorce out on her mum at times, Janis insisted: “She was never horrible!
“When she was smoking or swearing she would always say, ‘Sorry, Mummy.’ I just carried on, down to earth.”
Janis’ full interview is available to read now in Radio Times.