Amy Winehouse Was Supposed To Become Somebody's Mother
St. Lucia was Amy Winehouse's second home and during most of 2009 you could find her there spending time with the locals or snatching glasses of the sweet nectar off of tables. The Sunday Mirror says that Amy was so at one with the people of St. Lucia that she was in the final stages of adopting a 10-year-old girl named Dannika Augustine. The thing is, Dannika isn't some orphan who lives in a cave off the beach with stray dogs and sells bracelets made out of her own hair to tourists. No, Dannika lives with her mother and grandmother, which makes this even weirder.
Dannika's mother is out of work and is struggling to feed her daughter, so Amy was going to save the day. Both of Dannika's parents were going to sign off on the adoption once Amy's lawyers finished up putting together the papers. Amy was also planning to move to St. Lucia so she could spend as much time as possible with Dannika before the adoption became official.
Dannika told The Mirror, “Amy was already my mother. I would call her mum and she would call me her daughter. She took care of me and we had fun together. I loved her and she loved me. She was the most amazing person and I was looking forward to living with her here or in London. I cannot believe she is gone. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
Something tells me that Dannika would've also said that last line if Amy did adopt her ass.
Amy was not in a state to take care of a taxidermy turtle let alone a living, breathing human child. Dannika would've had to figure out real quick how to make soup out of weave cheese and dirty ballet slippers. Seriously, Child Protective Services would've opened up an office in front of Amy's house. That's why there's something off about this. If Amy's heart beat something special for Dannika, why didn't she just send her a check every month instead of adopting the kid?
I'm no Detective La Toya, but I'm pretty sure Dannika's family is trying to pull some coins out of Mitch Winehouse's pocket by trying to pull his heart strings. Joke's on their asses, though. Mitch Winehouse doesn't have heart strings anymore, thankyouverymuch. He already pulled those strings out and used 'em to tie up stacks of Amy's money to the bottom of his bed so Blaaaaake can't get to that shit. Ha and ha.
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I ain't buying it.
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I've written a letter to MK...saying...I...love...youuuuuu.
Too bad. Dina Lohan could have mentored Amy on all things parenting. Maybe the kid will get picked upo by Saint Angie.
I'm just relieved this story isn't about Amy being pregnant when she died.....
if this story is true, then my husband nailed it when he said God, the Universe whatever would not let her mother a child...cause lets face it, Amy as loveablE and kooky was a dire hard addict, it is like giving a baby to a crackhead...they will sell the baby for crack...Go watch Life is Hot in CRacktown...great movie and totally spot on with how drug addict parents "raise" their children...sorry, I love Amy and wish now they would just let her rest in peace...all money hungry maggots it sounds like...here have my daughter I am broke, but it is like s different type of child trafficking...to rich singer who is addicted to everything under the sun. I think if this was true Amy would have gotten clean months or even years ago.
That's probably what the little girl & her family wanted Amy to do.
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Submitted by DirtyWhoreMouth on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:32am.
It's ok to be a redneck by the way.. just don't yell git 'er done because we all hate that.
And out come all the parasites to get a cut of the poor (dead) womans money.
I would totally give my kid to someone walking around with a huge fucking burn on her thigh. Just screams of child safety and well-being.
http://www.dlisted.com/node/31869
Even though both parties were clearly outrageously delusional, if there is any truth to this story, I expect Amy's family to offer some sort of financial aid to Dannika. Especially now that Amy's record sales are booming. It seems like the decent thing to do if you really want to honor her legacy.
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
Mahatma Gandhi
She supposedly has a third CD coming out by year-end of material she recorded just after BTB. Even if they produce the hell out of it, I bet it's third-rate. If the songs were any good, someone would have released them long ago.
I can't think of many posthumous CDs that were any good (unless, like Lennon, it was stuff that was about to be released when the artist died).
@Michael K - truer words were never spoken. And if I were the doctor who "cleared" Amy's health the day before, I'd be shaking in my blue suede shoes because old Mitch is surely looking for someone to blame. Dude can't even give his precious little girl a week's silence out of respect. He has to speculate publicly as to the cause of death. So uncool. He should be singing Sinatra songs to her grave.
Submitted by gimpomatic on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 8:54pm.
Bwahahaha!!
Welcome to the D! :)
Carole King It's Too Late
What a load of crap.
I find it annoying how the majority of these compulsive liars and scammers don't even seem to TRY to make their bullshit sound even half-way feasible.
All this aside, I think now is a good a time as any to say that I am actually a prince in Ghana, I am good god fearing man who love U.S.A, I have 50 trillion dollars in off-shore account but I cant get it out without first deposit a small sum of moneys. Sadly I have no moneys, all my cash was stolen. If someone wishes to send me their bank card and PIN number, we can make a deal, I will give you 40 trillion dollars in exchange for this help. God bless.
Submitted by Hoof Arted on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 4:10pm.
Team fucked up childhood.
Caprica Six, your story is so uplifting! I was anorexic when I got pregnant and I totally cleaned up my act once I knew I was 'with child'. I let myself balloon up to 175 pounds (5' 7") because I wanted a healthy baby even at the cost of my having stretch-marks and looking like a land-whale for a while (lol).
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I'm sure you didn't look like a land whale. 175 at 5'7 isn't that bad, compared to shorter people weighing way more. I'm sure you looked healthy, glowing and beautiful.
And honestly, the ones who said their kids changed their lives for the better, that's really great. Even though thats not realistic for everyone. My brother just became a father. He's 19, and in to all those shenangens, and he supposedly passed his last drug test and looking for a job. I trully, hope, like you ladies, for the sake of himself and his son, he cleans up his shit and gets his act together.
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Angels say they can make you suffer.They give and take like a vicious lover .When all this loses meaning, You'll never want it back somehow"-Neverending White Lights (The Grace)
Submitted by Uncle Brain-fart on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:29pm.
I don`t know if i should feel sad that she felt the need to look for unconditional love with this "adoption", or horrified that she was delusional enough to think she could take care of anything other than maybe a goldfish.
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Not even.. She was a fucked up mess. I have a feeling poor or not, the kids mom was a better choice, although if she wanted Winehouse to adopt her kid, maybe her ass needed to be investigated by CPS.
I'm not surprised. I remember a long time awhile back, when that slumdog millionaire move came out, one of the child star's parent's tried to supposedly "sell" her.
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Angels say they can make you suffer.They give and take like a vicious lover .When all this loses meaning, You'll never want it back somehow"-Neverending White Lights (The Grace)
What a load of UK media crap.
If that quote is real, I will eat my hat.
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Save it for your Linkedin profile, bitch!
I am beyond hoffified
*wrong post* That's what'll a bottle of the sweet shit will do
*esxits*
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"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."
~Jack Nicholson
Amy Winehouse "Will You Still Love Me?" (RIP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ludxpkyrab0
There is NO way anyone would have approved Amy Winehouse adopting anything but a bad attitude.
Having said that, isn't this pretty much what Madonna did re: David Banda?
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"This is what we call the floating world . . .” (Ryoi, c.1661)
" . . . the world needs to be shut down. I mean it this time. SHUT IT DOWN". (MK, c.2009)
She couldn't even "adopt" herself.
Grifters. Pure and simple.
I know a lovely elderly woman who is an acquaintance's mother. She lost TWO fortunes to shady "financial advisors" who befriended her, but she had enough safe investments that she is comfortable for now. She is always meeting the nicest people who coincidentally need money.
It's uncanny how these people find her, because she doesn't look like she has two nickels to rub together. It pisses me OFF that people take advantage of her. She has some issues and is a bottomless pit of neediness.
Let me guess, they were also going to change the island to St. Amy
Submitted by Scott in NYC on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 5:47pm.
Can I please meet the one idiot who actually believes this bullshit story? Even Moses would have kept paddling if he found himself floating up to Amy's front door.
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BWAAHAHAHAHA. *dies*
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"I also have felt the nose heat of the man meat."
SFRB, 04/26/11
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please. like anyone would have approved Amy adopting a kid.
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I know I have a fickle heart
And a bitterness, and a wandering eye and a heaviness in my head.....
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Can I please meet the one idiot who actually believes this bullshit story? Even Moses would have kept paddling if he found himself floating up to Amy's front door.
Riiiiiiight.... Amy went to St. Lucia to rehab herself, hung out with some kids...and then the parents of those kids said: You know what? She's GREAT! Especially when she gets really drunk and sings in the lounge. Such a FINE WOMAN! I will ask her to care for my child!
Uh-huh.
♥ Threadkilla!
RIP, Amy: Sep14,1983 to Jul23,2011
http://youtu.be/Con6WaimJ6c
*sigh* And let the bone-picking commence...
Carole King It's Too Late
Huh?
Why wouldn't she just use her money to give THE FAMILY a home and some savings or something? Take a 10 year old from her mother for reasons of poverty when you could clearly help the family?
I dunno about this. Yeah, it's weird. Hopefully made up.
If you google "images of Amy Winehouse in St Lucia" there are a couple pix of her on the beach with a group of kids, this girl included. Whether or not she was going to adopt her is a completely different story. I call bs on the adoption claims.
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What's as equally as funny to me is a hillbilly Santa Claus jumping up from his motorized sleigh to whoop a trick with pepaw fists of fury! It's a win/win. MK 7/21/11
Submitted by kokoskitten on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 4:46pm.
Thanks, Koko. Based on the Mail's source, I liked your "allegedly":
"The friend said: ‘Around the time of the divorce, all of Amy’s finances were sorted out – and Blake can’t get his hands on any of it.
‘I am pretty sure that Amy does have a will. As a matter of course with record contracts, financial advisers will make sure that is done.’"
Submitted by RustyHooligan on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 4:23pm.
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Allegedly everything is going to the parents and brother.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/07/26/amy-winehouses-will-singer-songwr...
Supposedly this girl also has an unemployed father in Germany who had given his "consent" so I'm calling major BS on the family's story.
Submitted by kokoskitten on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:46pm.
I remember reading somewhere that Blake is DEFINITELY out of the will.
Thanks. I'm going to be suspicious if someone has whited-out "Blake" and written "Mitch" over it. I'll also be impressed if she even had a will. I mean, when in the past four years was she of sound mind and body?
At St Lucia was the only time I remember seeing Wino totally at home and happy. It's too bad she couldn't have just stayed there.
Though I don't know who in their right mind would let Amy adopt, I don't find this too hard to believe. Remember all the hooplah when Madonna adopted one of her children who already had a family? This isn't much different to me...
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Remember, the early bird may catch the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese...
Something tells me that Dannika would've also said that last line if Amy did adopt her ass.
Amy was not in a state to take care of a taxidermy turtle let alone a living, breathing human child.
You nailed it, MK. Folks are just trying to hold those houndstooth pants upside-down and inside-out hoping some spare change will fall out of the pockets. :-(
Team fucked up childhood.
Caprica Six, your story is so uplifting! I was anorexic when I got pregnant and I totally cleaned up my act once I knew I was 'with child'. I let myself balloon up to 175 pounds (5' 7") because I wanted a healthy baby even at the cost of my having stretch-marks and looking like a land-whale for a while (lol).
I *do* think UBF has a valid point though...and that is about 'adopting' a child when you are a fucked up mess and there is no real commitment other than signing some papers. Mommie Dearest ring a bell? My sister and I were put in a Foster home for almost a year and the Foster parents were the creepiest Mormon whackos...ugh. I shan't expound *shiver*.
I'm sure Amy had good intentions but 'good intentions' are not always grounded in reality.
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Very few blind people join nudist colonies.
Whoever would have signed the adoption papers belongs in the meat grinder.
Submitted by precociousmagpie on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:48pm.
This has "typical Caribbean scam" written all over it. *picks at stubbornly unremovable cornrows from 1998 trip to Anguilla*
Yep.
When was she last even there? It seems like over a year since her last visit.
Who would even let their 10yo hang out with an adult?
Submitted by caprica six on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:35pm.
Submitted by Uncle Brain-fart on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:29pm.
I don`t know if i should feel sad that she felt the need to look for unconditional love with this "adoption", or horrified that she was delusional enough to think she could take care of anything
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UBF,
I thought about what you mentioned. Then I remembered me at 18. Was on the same path as my two brothers (one is hardcore drug addict currently, the other is hardcore alch currently). Then by some tomfoolery fuckery, I got pregnant at 17 and a half. Up until (and even during) the pregnancy I was a rebel bitch. Just angry at the world for the abuses in the home and the other Bronx fuckery. Then I had my daughter. Boy did I straighten up. I didn't even bond with her at birth; just immediately felt this sense of tremendous responsibility and the second chance to be "an adult and doing it right". For some, having a major responsibility like that does keep you in check. Not for many, but for some.
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Same here. I was a huge cokehead and borderline alcoholic before I got pregnant. Straightened me right out (reluctantly at first admittedly). It also took me a long time to bond, maybe because I felt like I'd been forced to change rather than doing it on my own. I knew that I had to step up and do right by her though, and now when I start feeling like I'm sinking, or drinking a little too much, I know I've got something to keep going for.
That said, I do not believe that any social services agency in the world would give Amy Winehouse a child. I call shenanigans.
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"It's always funny until somebody gets hurt-then it's fucking hilarious": The late great Bill Hicks
Dog, Cute avie! Is that a mastiff?
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Be kind to animals, or I'll kill you.
So they were going to give her a kid, but the local animal shelter wouldn't allow my grandma to adopt a pitt bull. What a wonderful world we live in.
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Be kind to animals, or I'll kill you.
This has "typical Caribbean scam" written all over it. *picks at stubbornly unremovable cornrows from 1998 trip to Anguilla*
"She was the most amazing person I ever met...blah blah blah" BULLSHIZNIT.
Submitted by caprica six on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:35pm.
Submitted by Uncle Brain-fart on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:29pm.
exactly what I was thinking.
I don't recommend someone in a fucked up life having babies, but, I had a pretty fucked up childhood and had a bit (read, a lot) of the crazy/wilds when I was young, the firstborn changed all that immediately. I know he truly saved my life...as well as his crazy ass father.
obviously, she might have been past all that though
Submitted by RustyHooligan on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:44pm
Still dying to find out who inherits under Wino's will. It's either Blake or something like a music charity for underprivileged Camden kids.
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I remember reading somewhere that Blake is DEFINETLY out of the will.
Maybe I'm just in a foul mood today but it looks to me like Amy is annoyed in the picture and trying to get away from the girl who is grabbing her. Is that supposed to be Dannika?
Agree with MK's analysis, both as to Dannika and as to Mitch. An adoption that never got completed is a non-adoption.
Still dying to find out who inherits under Wino's will. It's either Blake or something like a music charity for underprivileged Camden kids.
Sounds like some folks are angling to get some money out of the estate by making ridiculous claims.
I figured there would be some scam artists coming out of the woodwork.
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Submitted by El Bastardo on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 11:39am.
You're only bisexual if someone rams a bottle of water up your ass and you cum. FACT.
Mefunigirl, it does look photoshopped.
*sighs* Either way, Amy's where she is. Truth is, she was so in dire straights during the last few months, slurring at shows and the self-inflicted shit, that she really couldn't handle anyone. RIP
*out for the night; have a chill Sunday/Monday all* edited
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"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."
~Jack Nicholson
Amy Winehouse "Will You Still Love Me?" (RIP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ludxpkyrab0
She adopted a load of kittens at one point and couldn't even look after them.
I'm thinking this could have been a crazy crackie scheme Wino came up with but it doesn't mean it would have actually happened. The family are obviously trying to make some money with this story now.