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Kate Garraway has been praised for not ‘mincing her words’ with a question to Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil during his appearance on Good Morning Britain.
The Back To Black singer’s relationship with Blake has been thrown back into the spotlight following the release of the biopic, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and starring Marisa Abela.
Since it was announced, the film has divided fans with concerns over whether it should have been made, and has received mixed reviews.
It follows Winehouse’s rise to fame and the making of her album Back To Black, as well as her relationship with Blake, and the years leading up to her tragic death in 2011.
The 41-year-old met the Rehab singer in a pub in 2005, and they remained together, on and off, for six years.
They married in 2007 and divorced two years later in 2009, two years before Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning aged 27.
Blake has previously spoken about their relationship and ‘mistakes made’, and in a new interview has admitted regret over introducing Winehouse to heroine, with presenter Kate questioning him on the topic.
Blake Fielder-Civil and Amy Winehouse met in 2005 (Picture: JM Enternational/Getty Images)
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Talking about ‘regrets’, she asked: ‘And one of those must be introducing her to heroine? That’s got to be a big regret, a regret that you were using it yourself at the time and a regret that you introduced it to her.’
Blake replied: ‘Heroine is a horrible, terrible drug. I’ve been clean for years myself but I was in addiction as well.
‘It’s not as black and white as that. I was a very, very young person, I thought I had the answers. But yeah of course, not to be trite about it, but of course I regret any drugs.
‘If I’d have known how it was going to develop, I would have been far more careful about the things that I was doing, the people that I was doing it with.
‘I had no one looking out for me either.’
Kate was praised for ‘not mincing her words’ (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
‘I had no one looking out for me either,’ Blake said (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Following her question, viewer Veronica praised: ‘@kategarraway asking the question everyone is thinking…. “do you regret introducing Amy to Heroin?” Didn’t mince her words!!! I love that. I couldn’t sit opposite that man!’
Anna meanwhile commented: ‘I felt sorry for Blake in that interview he made a good point that he was a young addict and no one was looking out for him either.’
Elsewhere in the interview, Blake spoke about how ‘therapeutic’ it was for him to watch the film and see their relationship unfold.
Calling it a ‘surreal’ experience and admitting there were ‘difficult parts’ to process, he said: ‘It was almost therapeutic in a way. There were some parts of it that enabled me to feel like I was seeing a more accurate representation of the relationship, not in a sense of being off the hook or whitewashed, as you alluded to, the comments people have made, just in a sense of, it wasn’t all about addiction.
Blake said he would do anything to bring Amy back (Picture: Mark Milan/ FilmMagic)
‘As much as that might have been the salacious headlines and the paparazzi’s goal, there was addiction, but it was only an aspect, the relationship started like every relationship does.’
Talking about her death, Blake admitted that he does think ‘many times’ that he could have done more, but said that for many years he’s ‘done nothing but try and take responsibility’.
He added: ‘If there was anything I could do to bring her back, I would.’
‘It’s impacted on many things in my life throughout the years,’ he elsewhere said, recalling ‘death threats’ he’s been sent.
Blake added that he now thinks he’s in ‘a much better place’ than the person he recognised in the film, with his role played by Jack O’Connell.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.
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Kate Garraway has been praised for not ‘mincing her words’ with a question to Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil during his appearance on Good Morning Britain.
The Back To Black singer’s relationship with Blake has been thrown back into the spotlight following the release of the biopic, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and starring Marisa Abela.
Since it was announced, the film has divided fans with concerns over whether it should have been made, and has received mixed reviews.
It follows Winehouse’s rise to fame and the making of her album Back To Black, as well as her relationship with Blake, and the years leading up to her tragic death in 2011.
The 41-year-old met the Rehab singer in a pub in 2005, and they remained together, on and off, for six years.
They married in 2007 and divorced two years later in 2009, two years before Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning aged 27.
Blake has previously spoken about their relationship and ‘mistakes made’, and in a new interview has admitted regret over introducing Winehouse to heroine, with presenter Kate questioning him on the topic.
Blake Fielder-Civil and Amy Winehouse met in 2005 (Picture: JM Enternational/Getty Images)
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Talking about ‘regrets’, she asked: ‘And one of those must be introducing her to heroine? That’s got to be a big regret, a regret that you were using it yourself at the time and a regret that you introduced it to her.’
Blake replied: ‘Heroine is a horrible, terrible drug. I’ve been clean for years myself but I was in addiction as well.
‘It’s not as black and white as that. I was a very, very young person, I thought I had the answers. But yeah of course, not to be trite about it, but of course I regret any drugs.
‘If I’d have known how it was going to develop, I would have been far more careful about the things that I was doing, the people that I was doing it with.
‘I had no one looking out for me either.’
Kate was praised for ‘not mincing her words’ (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
‘I had no one looking out for me either,’ Blake said (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Following her question, viewer Veronica praised: ‘@kategarraway asking the question everyone is thinking…. “do you regret introducing Amy to Heroin?” Didn’t mince her words!!! I love that. I couldn’t sit opposite that man!’
Anna meanwhile commented: ‘I felt sorry for Blake in that interview he made a good point that he was a young addict and no one was looking out for him either.’
Elsewhere in the interview, Blake spoke about how ‘therapeutic’ it was for him to watch the film and see their relationship unfold.
Calling it a ‘surreal’ experience and admitting there were ‘difficult parts’ to process, he said: ‘It was almost therapeutic in a way. There were some parts of it that enabled me to feel like I was seeing a more accurate representation of the relationship, not in a sense of being off the hook or whitewashed, as you alluded to, the comments people have made, just in a sense of, it wasn’t all about addiction.
Blake said he would do anything to bring Amy back (Picture: Mark Milan/ FilmMagic)
‘As much as that might have been the salacious headlines and the paparazzi’s goal, there was addiction, but it was only an aspect, the relationship started like every relationship does.’
Talking about her death, Blake admitted that he does think ‘many times’ that he could have done more, but said that for many years he’s ‘done nothing but try and take responsibility’.
He added: ‘If there was anything I could do to bring her back, I would.’
‘It’s impacted on many things in my life throughout the years,’ he elsewhere said, recalling ‘death threats’ he’s been sent.
Blake added that he now thinks he’s in ‘a much better place’ than the person he recognised in the film, with his role played by Jack O’Connell.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.
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