Amy Winehouse has been keeping a relatively low profile lately, but she’s back in the news today as her rep confirmed that the troubled singer has re-entered a rehabilitation clinic, reports People.
"[Amy] has embarked on a treatment program at the Priory Clinic. She wants to be ready for performances in Europe this summer and decided to seek an assessment. She will remain at the Priory on doctors' advice," said Winehouse’s rep in a statement. "Her dad sat her down and said 'I think you're drinking too much again.' So she agreed to go [to] an assessment to stop it becoming a bigger problem."
In true Winehouse style, however, the “Rehab” singer went out with a bang, or rather a shot… of vodka. The Sun reports that on her way to The Priory, Winehouse stopped at a London shop to buy a miniature bottle of Smirnoff Vodka, which witnesses said she drank immediately."She seemed out of it. She was stumbling about, slurring her words,” one onlooker told The Sun. "I was shocked to see her buy vodka so early in the day, and even more shocked to see her knock it straight back."
The U.K. paper also alleged that 27-year-old Winehouse stumbled into a hair salon, demanding to use their washroom. Upon exiting, she told the owners, “I just puked all over your bathroom.”Said one customer: "I felt really sorry for the staff. I think they were too scared to say anything." (Winehouse’s rep denied that any puking took place, dismissing the singer’s comment as a joke.)
Winehouse’s struggles with drugs and alcohol have been well publicized since she achieved mainstream success with the 2006 album Back to Black, but in October 2010, she told the U.K. version of Glamour that she had been drug-free for three years.“I literally woke up one day and was like, ‘I don’t want to do this any more,’” she said.
