Amy Winehouse's father Mitch confirms that he is making his own film about his daughter's life

 
New film: Mitch Winehouse confirms that he will be making his own film about daughter Amy (Picture: Loose Women/ITV)
Jennifer Ruby3 July 2015
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Mitch Winehouse has confirmed that he is in the process of making his own film about the life of daughter Amy.

The late star's father has revealed that he is putting together the documentary with Winehouse's former fiance Reg Traviss as an alternative to Asif Kapadia’s film, which is released this week.

Speaking on Loose Women, he admitted that Kapadia's film is 'extremely flawed' before adding:

"We’re making an alternative film, Reg and I. We’re going to invite everyone that’s spoken on the other film and we’re not going to edit it - like they’ve edited me - and we’re going to tell the truth about Amy’s life because this is not.

Not happy: Mitch Winhouse has condemned the documentary (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for NARAS)
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for NARAS

"My grandson who is nine months old, is going to look at this - and he’s a lovely boy - and he’s going to say ‘Grandad what were you doing? What exactly were you doing?’

"If I went to see this film and I didn’t know what happened, I’d also have a dim view of me. That’s my point, it’s not true."

Speaking about the amount of help he gave his daughter while she was alive, he added:

"The one thing these people don’t understand is the nature of addiction...If you do, you will understand how difficult it is.

"We made everything available for Amy. Treatment, psychoanalysis, in and out of treatment, left, right and centre, I can’t tell you. The hours we spent trying, the family interventions."

Kapadia's film reportedly alludes to the fact that Winehouse was left to fend for herself during the last few years of her life.

Her father told the panel: "This nonsense about Amy being left on her own for the last three years of her life is incredibly insulting and it’s insulting to families who are struggling with addiction, up and down the country.”

Amy is on general release in the UK this week.

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