Celebrities React To News Of Amy Winehouse's Death

Celebrities flocked to Twitter Saturday after news broke that Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home.

It is suspected that Winehouse suffered a fatal drug overdose but an official cause of death will be determined by an autopsy, to be performed Sunday.

Winehouse has publicly battled both drug and alcohol addiction, and was most recently admitted to a rehab facility back in May.

Celebrities, including Demi Moore, Sophia Bush, Anderson Cooper, and Winehouse's close friend Kelly Osbourne mourned the late singer on the social networking site.

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Kelly Osbourne

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Comments

[Neil Fox1]

10:03 PM on 08/07/2011

Here is an online memorial to Amy - feel free to light a virtual candle or send virtual flowers:
http://memorialmatters.com/memorials.php?page=AmyWinehouse

[AudreyLee]

05:23 PM on 07/27/2011

I feel like Twitter really isn't sincere, but maybe I'm just being cynical. How much sympathy can you fit in 160 characters or whatever it is?

[repugnicansfearme]

01:56 PM on 07/26/2011

I don't care what the celebrities think about her death. There's a touch of vulture voyeur in this- on both sides.

[kellyfanello]

09:16 PM on 07/25/2011

t it is very sad when anyone dies period.but i must ask myself where are peoples human decency ,for do they have any commom sense ,to speculate about how someone passes iy makes the hurt no different,or the pain any less .my sincere condolances to her loved ones .and may you rest in peace my dear and may your family know how truly you will be missed .

[bodhi213]

09:21 AM on 07/26/2011

what a stupid comment.......what does her name have to do with anything? what do soldiers have to do with the article you just read and commented on?.......and what makes you think they are "defending our freedom"?.......they are doing what they are told as soldiers, it has nothing to do with freedom.......Amy Winehouse was a talented singer who was in the spotlight, she died and people are sad............soldiers who die are not talented singers in the spotlight......you dont need to be a genius to figure it out.........get over your faux patriot act...

[DaMojo]

10:40 AM on 07/26/2011

Our soldiers are not defending our freedom. They are defending the territory of the MIC. Grow up.
Our soldiers are where they are by choice since the last time I heard there was no draft. They are being paid to be where they are.

[GooRooOrganics]

02:00 PM on 07/25/2011

the cause of death for Amy Winehouse.
http://celebs911.com/2011/07/25/the-cause-of-death-for-amy-winehouse/

[zfire]

01:35 PM on 07/25/2011

Slaughter of innocents in Oslo was tragic. This was expected. Even her mother mentioned that she would die within the year.

[Tanrioldu]

11:54 AM on 07/25/2011

I don't get it, what is this talent they all keep talking about? Her only talent was the amount of drugs she could possibly ingest.

[Coloradem]

01:16 PM on 07/25/2011

Correct. You don't get it. But don't for a moment be confused: That says more about you then it does about Ms. Winehouse.

[maggiee]

01:16 PM on 07/26/2011

Thank goodness we don't all like the same things.

[bob40wil]

11:18 AM on 07/25/2011

Amazing, I keep feeding people and they keep responding.

[academy1]

10:48 AM on 07/25/2011

why is glorifying a friendship or reactions to a death a headline?

bottom line, someone should have made that girl get treatment. even I could see the end was near. a good friend would have jumped in.

[MiBFTo]

09:55 AM on 07/26/2011

She got treatment-- she'd been in rehab a number of times. Unfortunately it wasn't working for her for any number of reasons.

You can't blame the friends and family of an addict. They tried. They did what they could reasonably do. But an addict has to want to get clean. No amount of outside influence will make it happen.

[Bailey Reynolds]

10:13 AM on 07/25/2011

No one should ever join the 27 Club. This is tragic. Such a huge talent gone.... My thoughts and prayers are with the Winehouse family and her friends.

[Tanrioldu]

11:54 AM on 07/25/2011

what talent? her ability to consume industrial quantities of drugs?

[Melissa Sarra]

11:33 AM on 07/26/2011

aw she did have talent......its just hard looking at some one all doped up...its like looking at a disease..

[Mario Trujillo]

11:53 AM on 07/26/2011

get off your pedestal dude.

[tablee4]

10:04 AM on 07/25/2011

It is sad to see anyone lose their child. Especially to actions such as drugs, drinking and driving, and other very bad choices. Hollywood makes drugs and drinking seem so great and the way to be cool. But yet we watch the dreadful results by seeing this young lady basically kill herself quickly over the years, and then like the Jack Ass guy which I do not consider someone doing stupid life threatening stunts to be a star,,we saw his choice to drink and drive cost him and another his life. Though its sad, it is the result of their choice to do these things. Any addiction can have a strong hold, but it still comes down to blaming the one who is allowing that addiction to rule and destroy them. Just as my choices are my fault and no one elses. As for Kelly Osborne and that Viva la dork Bam guy, I see their stage of emotion just to be to get them media attention. For la bam, he showed is ignorance by getting on live television doped up and drunk to say how much he cared for his friend. We shoudl focus more on the importance of a person instead of popularity. Open your papers and see the Obits today and see how many people are in it and I can bet you that a lot of them were 100xs the person that either of these almost stars were.

[Halsey]

09:53 AM on 07/25/2011

6 years ago I was driving through Beverly Hills. I saw "Derek" on a PAY phone outside Jimmy Choo store. I knew D from AA meetings. He liked drugs but was not a thug/criminal. He was an amazing studio musician (guitarist) who'd get sober for 6 months, use and come right back to AA. When I saw him using a pay phone I KNEW he was scoring. I HONKED and tried to get his attention. I called another AA friend (male) who I thought might have his ph. #. The next day, we heard that Derek OD'd.
I KNOW he got the "hot dose" of heroin. He was not a daily user and must have scored too pure heroin. That was it; the music stopped. I know he did not want to die. Every drug user must realize that they can't truly know the potentcy (spelling off on that one) of what they get on the street.
I hate it. All we can hope is that Amy drifted off to sleep; she'd suffered her demons enough for such a young age(but I think an old soul).

[Daisytoo]

09:46 AM on 07/25/2011

There are celebrated people who do recover from addictions (and maintain their recovery).

James Taylor, addicted to alcohol and heroin comes to mind. Of course, James Taylor didn't have the press selling news every time he went in and out of rehab centers; he didn't have to read public commentary about what a 'loser' he was every time he relapsed (which is a common - albeit not absolutely necessary - part of the illness/recovery process). Instead, he was treated w/the respectful privacy he deserved. I believe the respectful distance the press kept w/James Taylor helped him to find and keep recovery. The invasive, greedy press enabled Amy Winehouse to die from her disease.

RIP Amy Winehouse.

[vervlnt]

12:26 PM on 07/26/2011

I THINK THERE IS SOME TRUTH IN THAT.

[bonnienclyde8506]

09:25 AM on 07/25/2011

I love when people who are completely ignorant to addiction spout off as to how loved ones should "take control" of the addict and "save" them. Are you kidding me? No amount of outside love can save an addict, only self love can. The addict has to want it for themselves, they have to find worth in themselves as a human being in order to get clean and stay clean. I love how easy people think it is to just stop using and sober up, stay clean, whatever you want to call it. The fact of the matter is, it is a daily struggle, that with many years of sobriety can become easier, but is always there. There are many reasons why some people can manage to get clean and stay clean, and there are many reasons why others can not. It really isn't that hard to figure out. People are different, they act different, they respond to life different. There is no one solution to recovery and there never will be. Perhaps labeling Amy an addict, instead of a person was one of her demons. When you constantly tell a person they are something, they start to only see themselves as that.
My heart goes out to Amy Winehouse' family and friends. It is a sick world we live in when we blame everything on the parents or the family members instead of trying to really understand a disease that affects everyone.

[still hopeful at 55]

09:54 AM on 07/25/2011

you get it...i know too, i am a clean addict.

[mgchemtek]

11:12 AM on 07/25/2011

Oh, really? Then what are interventions for? I can answer that: they're to save someone who is bent on self-destruction, either subconsciously or not. And I disagree that no amount of outside love can save an addict...no, not always, but often times it is the utter lack of love in an addict's (young) life that pushes him or her to addiction in the first place. (Along with abuse and neglect.)

People are disgustingly judgmental...and it's SO easy to judge when you haven't walked nary an INCH in someone else's shoes.

[MiBFTo]

09:57 AM on 07/26/2011

Interventions are for showing an addict that people care about them and want them to seek help. The addict still has to make the choice to get that help.