Interview extracts

For once the troubled singer Amy Winehouse and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil stayed out of the public eye yesterday, but their parents clashed on live radio over the extent of the couple’s drug problems and who was to blame.

Winehouse, a Brits award-winner who has cancelled a string of performances, was recently seen bloodstained after she and her husband quit rehab. He was covered in scratches.

The Back to Black singer, 23, whose hits include Rehab, and Fielder-Civil, 25, headed for Heathrow yesterday after leaving a luxury London hotel. Guests complained of raised voices, clattering furniture and screaming.

Winehouse was admitted to hospital earlier this month after a reported overdose of heroin, Ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and alcohol.

Her husband is a film-set runner who claims to be an aspiring documentary-maker. His parents said that he works as a designer on websites promoting nightclubs. They denied reports that he introduced Winehouse to hard drugs and self-harm when they met two years ago.

Giles Fielder-Civil, the singer’s father-in-law, said that she was on a path to becoming the next “dead young rock star”. Mr Fielder-Civil, a headmaster, urged her record company, Island, a subsidiary of the Universal Music group, to do more to stop the couple taking drugs.

He also called on fans to stop buying her records, which have climbed the charts amid the publicity, until she sorts out her problems.

But Winehouse’s father, Mitch, defended the record company and said telling fans to boycott his daughter’s albums was “clutching at straws”.

Both sets of parents gave interviews on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Mr Fielder-Civil and his wife, Georgette, said that they believed the couple were taking cocaine, crack and heroin.

He said: “Clearly, they are addicts, but they are in abject denial. They are a very close couple. We are concerned that if one dies through substance abuse, the other will commit suicide.”

Explore Music

• CD Reviews

• Live Reviews

• Classical

Editor's choice

• The 100 Best Films of the Decade
• 70 facts you didn't know about Marvel
• The 50 Biggest Movies Of 2010