Winehouse In-Law Urges Boycott

Amy Winehouse's in-laws are apparently firm believers in tough love. Her own parents, not so much.

The father of Blake Fielder-Civil, Winehouse's hubby of three months, has spoken out about the much-chronicled downward spiral of the musically-inclined couple, and is calling for a fan boycott of the "Rehab" singer's music as a last-ditch effort to send a message to what he deems a drug addicted duo.

"At the moment, they don't admit there's a problem, so we do urge other people to help them recognize their own problems," Giles Fielder-Civil told BBC Radio Five Live Tuesday.

"They are seen as a couple who display sorts of behavior that can be seen as almost entertaining, especially for the tabloid newspapers, and I think it's about time that their friends and professional colleagues say, 'enough is enough.'"

"Perhaps it's come to the point where—and I wouldn't want any harm to come to Amy or Blake, obviously—but perhaps it's time to stop buying records."

The in-law spoke out about the couple's increasingly destructive behavior in recent weeks, claiming their take on their own addictions is one of "abject denial," saying the duo not only "don't see themselves as having a problem," but are "quite aggressive in their defense of themselves."

"I think they believe that they are recreational users of drugs and that they are in control."

Fielder-Civil, however, doesn't.

Citing cocaine, crack and heroin as the likeliest drugs the duo has been taking in increasing doses over the past few months, the concerned father told BBC Radio that as a parent, he was concerned "that if one of them dies, the other will die."

"They're a very close couple. If one dies through substance abuse, the other may commit suicide...and if they died within the next 12 to 24 months, it would be such a tragic waste."

The problem, according to Fielder-Civil, is that the couple cannot recognize their problem. Even the couple's very brief stint at the Causeway rehab center earlier this month, which they checked into in the wake of Winehouse's hospitalization for "severe exhaustion," the in-law claims was never meant to be a fix.

"Those visits to the Causeway were really in a sense to get them out of the way," he said. "It was hoped that they would recognize their own problems, that they would then take on a course of action that would help them kick this habit, but they haven't and it hasn't been successful. And I think looking back in hindsight, it wasn't the best option."

Not only that, but he believes the duo even "took a supply" with them to get them through the three days in the center.

Winehouse's father seconded the contraband notion when he phoned into the same BBC Radio show Tuesday to answer Fielder-Civil's call for a boycott.

"They were indulging in other things during the stay," he said of their time at the facility, adding he hoped they would make their way back there.

As for Fielder-Civil's grave warnings about the duo, Winehouse doesn't deny that a problem exists, but doesn't quite paint as bleak a portrait of the couple as his fellow parent.

"We're not talking about people who are in imminent danger of death," he said, adding that his Back to Black daughter and her hubby had "taken a different route" in terms of drug taking in the last three or four months.

"We have two families pulling in different directions," he said of their approach to helping the famous couple. "Basically, we both want the same things, we want our children to be safe. But we've got different ideas of how to do that."

Like the proposed boycott.

"Will it do any good? No. It won't send any message to Amy at all, unfortunately. If I thought it would, it would be a great idea. I'm clutching at straws. It's all clutching at straws."

It's a feeling Winehouse said he felt even more acutely in the wake of bloodied, scratched up photos surfacing of the duo on a London street last week.

"I thought that here are two people that are completely out of control," he said, adding that "my understanding is that they didn't do it to each other. As a parent, it was sickening. Worse than sickening. I wanted to die."

Still, Winehouse thinks the key to the couple's recovery is getting them to sober up is to first let them hit rock bottom—if they haven't already.

"They are a married couple, they love each other—although obviously there are issues in the relationship if they feel they've got to cut themselves to demonstrate their love for each other—and if it means that they get cured together, I hope they get cured together. If it means they get cured by being separated, then so be it."

"The only way out of this is, at some point, they are gonna reach rock bottom. And at that point, they will say, listen, I don't want to do this anymore. That's their decision to make. When the decision is right, they'll make it. Or they won't make it."

The couple is currently vacationing together in a secluded, undisclosed location.