>> tonight, she changed the world of music and she left it far too soon. amy winehouse, nobody knew her quite like her father, mitch. >> my memories of her. she was my daughter. >> tonight, the primetime exclusive, mitch winehouse. her daughter -- >> her legacy will be her music, there will be more, hopefully. >> her demons? >> one addiction can follow another. and this is what happened with amy. >> a checkered love life. >> blake came back into her life at that moment when she was at her most vulnerable. ♪ >> mitch winehouse, primetime exclusive, emotional in an

extraordinary hour. >> real heart broken, heart broken. ♪ thank you for coming back. i can only imagine it's been a hideous few weeks for you. how are you and the family holding up since amy died? >> very difficult, piers, very, very difficult indeed. we have each other, a wonderful family. and extremely wonderful friends. and we kept each other strong and, of course, we've got the foundation that we're working on. so we're doing okay. under the circumstances, we're doing okay. >> obviously you knew that amy

was incredibly popular. have you been taken aback by the sheer scale of the reaction to her death? >> i have. i didn't realize how popular -- i knew she sold 20 million albums but the sheer depth of feeling that people have had for her has been extraordinary. the love and the messages she's getting and how she changed people's lives, it's just wonderful. >> are your feelings ones of anger, frustration, sadness. how would you describe how you've been feeling since you heard the news? >> all of those, all of those. very angry. i would spank her bottom. but all of those things is -- you know, very angry. very -- feel very guilty. i haven't done anything to be guilty about. all of those feelings combined. >> where were you when you heard the news?

>> i was in new york, i was with my cousin who we're on the 47th floor of the tower block in manhattan. his wife and he had just had twin babies. i went to see the babies. and i was about to do a show at the blue note club my baby in new york. i was holding one of the babies. and my cousin's english and he phoned his dad to say that i was there and i spoke with my uncle. and he says, how's amy. i said, she's doing great. and as i was talking to him, my mobile rang, picked up the phone, it was amy's security guard and he was crying and he told me that she had passed away. >> just to go through her last night, tell me what happened from everything that you now know? >> okay.

she had a good day as most of her days are good days. and she had -- her mom and janice and richard janice's boyfriend went to her early in the day. good spirits. close to bed. about 1:00 at night. she's singing, she's got a drum in her room. she's playing her drum. >> she was on her own? >> she was on her own. nobody else was in the house. i think her friend tyler was under the -- he stays with her. and he was in the room underneath hers. and it was 1:00 and the security guard said to her, you better stop playing the drum, amy, because people next door will complain. yeah, no problem. she stopped playing the drum. he heard her walking around for another half an hour or so. thought she couldn't sleep. he checked in on her at 3:00 in the morning. she had -- she seemed to be asleep. i think he checked her again.

you have to excuse me if i don't have the timing right. he checked her again at 8:00. he saw there's a problem and they called the paramedics and that was it. >> what was your reaction? >> i had incredible clarity. i wasn't crying, screaming. i was holding the babies. i gave the baby to my cousin. i was comforting the security guard who, you know, he blamed himself. nothing to blame himself for. and it's quite natural. and i was comforting him and i was comforting my cousin. i was comforting my uncle and i was obviously in shock. but as i was sitting there taking it all in, i had thoughts coming to my mind, amy wine house foundation, amy wine house foundation. amy winehouse foundation. music, horses, children -- these are the things that were important to her. not necessarily in that order. children were not less important than children. but she loved horsed, loved children, she loved kids. this is what was in my mind.

amy winehouse foundation. and she was basically guiding me and telling me what to do. that's my belief, anyway. >> did part of you expect this call? >> no, not at all. not at all. had this have happened three or four years previously, to be honest with you, i would have held my hands up and said, fair enough. her recovery, as we'll speak about later from the drug addiction was extraordinary. i've been banging on for the last three years for the fact that she'd been clean of drugs for three years. >> so you believe absolutely that amy had been clear of drugs for three years. >> she hasn't taken any drugs for three years. >> what about alcohol? >> alcohol is a different issue. unfortunately, alcohol, as you may be aware, one -- one addiction can follow the other. and this is when i found she had conquered the drug addiction, she then went on to a positive addiction. she was exercising every day.

so fit, incredibly fit. she had a gym at home. she was exercising for three or four hours a day. if not more. >> yeah, three or four hours a day in the gym, on the treadmill, on the bike. on the rowing machine. just really, really fit girl. and then she would -- then there was another phase when she would buy -- buy loads of clothes and i had to deal with the buyer. she'd buy maybe 25,000 pounds with the dresses, i'd take them all back and i'd keep one for her. she said what's your favorite? she said i'd love the yellow. and i would take them back. she didn't know i had taken them back. the addiction was going to the store to buy the goods and the fact that i took them back didn't make the slightest bit of difference. >> did you have any way of controlling any of these adicks

that -- addictions that she had? >> how do you control somebody else's addictions? people say what should you to? people should know better, what you should do is hire a house in the country, big house in the country so nobody can hear you scream. take her there, lock the doors, lock the windows, leave her there. put some food -- you can't do that to somebody. that's imprisonment. you can't treat people like that. if somebody is an addict, they have to deal with it in their own way. the only way the family could help was to be there to love them and support them. sometimes it's tough love that's there. sometimes it's soft love. whatever it is, the answer comes from the addict, not from the family of the addict. so, in terms of doing anything about her addiction -- her addictions, whatever they were, it's not really an awful lot that any family can do. >> in the last few weeks, have you had any regrets. you say you feel guilty. it's a different feeling, any parent in that situation. but do you have any concrete regrets of things you wish you'd

done? >> i really don't. our family was or is a terribly strong family and, you know, great example set on them half hour to go back to my grandparents and my -- my mother and father. who are both gone now. and we -- we took that forward and as a family, we were in love -- we are a loving family. and amy was an intra integral part of that family. >> you have shown such control. have you had moments in private that you've lost it about this? or were you able to keep things together? >> i mean, i have moments when i can't believe what's happened. it's just incredible. you know, even now, i -- she walked in here right now, i -- i wouldn't be surprised.

it's just incredible that a force -- her force, her nature has gone. but it's not really gone. because i'm affirmed all my family -- firm believers in life after death. she's right here with us all the time. there's been some fantastic stuff going on as far as that's concerned, butterflies, birds, butterflies and birds just incredible. and wonderful messages that we're getting. and it's very, very difficult. and you know to answer your question -- in answer to your question, it's not a question of losing it. i think that crying is an integral part of the grieving process. i can't tell everybody how they should grieve. the way i grieve is to cry. i'm a crier. i'm glad. i hope that means that i'm not

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i can tell, you can hardly bare to look at amy singing that. >> i was with her -- this is a great story because she just had a breaking up with her partner, chris, a very, very nice guy. he was a bit of a wimp. and she wrote the song about him, "you should be stronger than me." off of the first album. and he -- they broke up and she -- she had a few -- she went on a binge because of it. and she fell an banged her head and she came and stayed with me for three or four days. the managers were a couple of guys. and nick godwin and they say, you have a guy in rehab. they came to my house. and at the time, i didn't think she needed to go to rehab. she just had a breakup with her boyfriend. and i said, you know, and she said, what do you think? i think you're fine.

and they tried to make me go to rehab. i said no, no, no. she did go there. she went to rehab for two hours. and then she came back. and i said, but she's been away from my house for three hours. we thought you went to rehab and you've come back already. she said, oh, the guy i went to see, all he wanted to do was speak about himself. it's all in the song "rehab," but my daddy thinks i'm fine. but out of that one situation, she managed to write "rehab". >> one of the great, great songs of the last 20 years. >> reporter: of the last 20 years. >> the poignancy of the title of that song, an irony, i guess, that "rehab" was something that bedeviled amy for years. she flirted with it. did she ever commit to rehab properly or not? >> no, i don't. to be frank -- i say she didn't. she went to the nighting gael

three weeks before the grammies. she said, you know, dad, this group therapy life is not for me. at 5:00, the bell would go off and they would come in and talk about the whole -- i said, well, look, just sit and see how you get on. she was there for two or three weeks. and i when to see her every day as i did, this guy -- next door, his mom did this, sisters this. and i realize, that is group therapy. she didn't like the formalized group therapy. if anybody said so, at 5:00, we're all going to sit around the table and we're going to talk about ourselves. she'd say, this suspect for me. all she was doing all day long was talking to other people in a similar situation to herself. >> let's go back, mitch, to when amy was born. tell me about your family. what kind of environment it was for you all when she was first

out there? >> well, it feels -- it wasn't that long ago. just coming up to 28 years and my mother was alive. her twin sister was alive. my father passed away at 1967, age 43. i was 16. she never knew him. but she came into the world surrounded by all of these people. i mean, when amy popped out, there was about people in the waying room outside all wailing to see what she looked like. we already had my little boy, alex. he was, i think he was 3 1/2 at the time. so they -- it was just a fantastic family to be born into. >> she was showered with love by lots of people. very close family. when did you realize amy had a real talent for music. this is the first time. you're a musical guy. always have been. what was the moment for you that you thought, okay, wow, this is interesting. >> so many stories, the story i tell over and over is that we --

she got a scholarship for sylvia young as an actress and dancer. >> like an acting school. >> it's an acting school. for music too. but we went to the first show she did, my wife and i, not janice, we went to see her, and whether the song she was singing in the wrong key. she didn't sing it well at all. i remember saying to my life, thank god she could act. she had acting jobs, she was doing okay. she said if the following year, she said, dad, i'm singing again. i thought, oh, my god, she's singing again. she could sing. that's the age of 14. i heard her singing before, but i wasn't in the house from the age of 10. i saw her three or four times a week, but i -- janice and i got divorced when she was 10. so i wasn't there all the time.

she was singing all the time. she didn't sound anything out of the ordinary to me. until we saw her at that show. >> the irony is she left the school because she wasn't in their eyes performing academically well enough, right? >> sylvia would say she wasn't expelled but she was expelled because -- >> for underperforming. >> underperforming. >> what was the moment for you that you realized this little girl of yours was going to be an international star? >> at sylvia young, she met a guy called tyler james, great friend, in the house with her that night. he introduced her to the management team called 19. they asked me to come down, she was under 18. i had to sign the forms for her. i went down, they said your daughter is absolutely fantastic. they sent some tracks.

i never heard her sing on a cd before. they sent us some of the tracks that she'd done. they were brilliant. at that point, i remember saying to my wife, this is incredible. but really, it's a question of when did this happen? >> you hasn't seen it coming? >> not really, no. not really. >> i heard her sing, a lot of kids could sing. >> it wasn't just singing, she wrote this stuff. she wrote some of the great songs in the last 25 years. where do you think she got that from? >> i'd like to say me, of course. but the truth is that janice, my ex-wife's family, they were professional musicians on that side too. we're all singers on our side. they're the musicians on janice's side. pretty good gene pool one way or the other. >> amy propelled to the stratosphere of music superstardom. the first album did brilliantly. the second one exploded and everything changed. i want to talk to you about the effect of fame and fortune on her life and in particular, the effect of her quite troubled love life after this as well. ♪ trying to make me go to rehab

♪ ♪ i won't go go go

♪ since i'm coming home >> the night before amy and i met, i know she hasn't been involved in that sort of stuff, like 3 1/2 years, something like that.

she said, which i knew, you know, i know, i mean that wasn't part of her life, you know what i mean? it was -- it was long in the past. it was gone and she wasn't into it. she wasn't into that scene or that kind of thing, you know? she wasn't in to drugs at all. so, nothing to do with her life. >> that was amy winehouse's boyfriend of her death, reg travis. she had found proper love with a decent guy. is that how you saw it? >> absolutely. >> force of good in your life? >> an incredible force of good in her life. i don't know where she found him from, he's like a throwback to the '50s, old fashioned values, dresses very retro in a modern old-fashioned way, if you know what i mean? it's a terrific go. he had a great influence on amy. >> many people say that amy's

almost inevitable downfall came after she met this guy blake who became her husband. he's serving a prison sentence in britain for assaulting somebody. when she first got together with this guy, as her father, what was your immediate reaction when you saw the kind of person that he was. >> my immediate reaction was that he was a very charming guy. i saw him at one of amy's shows. i knew she had been seeing this guy called blake and he'd been in and out of her life. he only wanted to come back to her life when she was successful. >> you were suspicious of his

motivation? >> yes, i was. and my suspicions proved to be well founded. >> people close to amy believed it was blake who got her from soft drugs like marijuana which she had admitted taking when she feels a teenager to hard drugs, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin? >> i don't know about ecstasy, but cocaine and heroin, yes, i do. >> and as her father how did that make you feel? when you thought this guy that she's in love with, hooked up to, is driving her to this kind of thing? >> i was sickened, i did everything in my power to stop the relationship. but, again, what can you do? she really loved blake. >> did you ever confront him? >> oh, frequently. >> and his family. >> what would you a? >> leave my daughter alone, leave us alone. you're killing my daughter. he would say, well, i'm not killing her. he would admit to nothing. and his family were in denial, which made it more difficult

because we had them to deal with as well, which is very, very painful and very difficult. >> did they not believe that he got amy to the hard drugs? >> no. they believed at one point that it was amy that got him on to the hard drugs. >> when she began taking cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, all of this stuff, did you notice a change in her? >> did i notice a change in her? that's a very, very good question. in terms with her relationship with her family, she was still the loving girl that she'd always been. i must add that my mother died -- i nearly said that at the wrong time. it's never the right time for your mother to die. but blake came back on the scene literally weeks after my mother passed away. >> amy's grandmother? >> her grandmother, my mother. they were -- they were just so

close. they were as close as mother and daughter. >> had a good effect on -- >> incredibly traumatic effect on all of us. amy and alex as well, devastating for them. but it was just the timing of everything was just incredible. that blake came back in to her life at that moment when she was at her most vulnerable. the results speak for themselves. >> there were period through there from what we read at the media in the time, that it seemed to be spiraling out of control, her life. did you fear you were going to wake up one day to the terrible news that you did ironically at a time when she was cleaner. did you fear of that period with blake that it feels going to end horribly? >> yes i did. i did think it was going to end horribly. it was a horrible time for all of us. i spend my time as an old man

fighting, literally fistfights with people, scrapping, shouting, arguing, it made me old, ultimately. it made me old, ultimately. i just needed to all my friends and family felt we needed to protect amy. >> she was a headstrong girl. she had lots of self-belief in many ways as well as insecurity. but fabulously successful, very rich, and a little part of her was thinking, hey, dad, back off, this is my life, right? right? >> how can you back off? how can you back off when you can see this is happening to your daughter directly as a result of her -- i've got to be careful what i say, really, because i've got to remember how it was. he did not force -- blake did not force amy to take the drugs. that would be unfair.

>> but he provided the platform for her to take the drugs. >> so i believe. >> he entered another level of drug taking and she became pretty addicted to that kind of stuff. >> yeah. >> in that sense, he's culpable. >> he's culpable for that but not anything that happened subsequent to that. i would not blame him for amy's death. that would be stupid. >> although, there's an argument that if she hasn't been so addicted to the hard drugs for so long, the effects on her body which then led coupled with the alcohol addiction and the fact she didn't eat very much that it weakened her to the extent that in the end, the body packed up. you could chart it back to when she was first taking all of the heroin and cocaine and so on, could you not? >> i don't believe so. she loved blake, blake loved her in his own way. and he certainly wouldn't have wanted this to happen.

>> have you talked to him since she die? >> ever again? >> not interested in him. i'm not interested in his family or in him. we don't want the help with the foundation. we would be a laughing stock if we -- if we recruited him on to the foundation. >> has he made any attempt to contact you? >> he says he has, but he hasn't. >> hasn't written to you or anything. >> no. >> his mother, in one of the many newspaper articles that she's written since -- amy's death, she says that blake has been trying to get in touch with me. she's been trying to get in touch. but none of them have gotten in touch with me. i'm not interested in them. >> one of the worst things for you, mitch, i would imagine is you had to live this roller coaster time, not in private, be uh in the glare of front page headlines, television, so on and

so on. in the wake of all of that, you're criticized by people. where was her father? why didn't he save her, all that kind of thing. what do you say to the people who criticize you like that? >> it's a fair point. it's a good question. but we were there, as a family, we were there the whole time. although i never ever saw amy take any drugs. she would never do that in front of me. >> never? >> we were there all the time, once, i saved her life. this was maybe four years ago when her p.a. -- her p.a. i said to him, check her every hour. he checked her five minutes previously. i came to the house she was living in. i said, jevon have you -- he said, i checked her five minutes ago. i'm going to go and give her a kiss good night. i have to go. i went up, going to give her a kiss good night and she was having a fit on the bed. we called the paramedics and it was resolved. we took her to hospital. she woke up in hospital and the first thing she said was i'm hungry, can you go out and get me some kentucky fried chicken.

that's the kind of girl she was. that was -- that was a fluke because jevon was not due to check her for another 55 minutes. and had he waited 55 minutes, that would have been it then. but at that point, i could have held my hands up and said, fair enough, that's fair enough. she was very ill. she was taken an inordinate amount of drugs, and i don't know how she survived. it was because she was so strong that she somehow managed to survive. and to -- to make this amazing recovery which she did. and i use the word recovery -- >> yeah, into come to this. just hold that thought. come back after break. talk about the recovery. then talk about the catastrophic performance in belgrade when she tried to launch this tour and it was a shambles on stage. and that was the beginning of the sequence of events leading up to her death. we'll come back after this break.

♪ we only said good-bye with words i've got a harder time ♪ ♪ you go on back to her and i go back to i go back to black ♪

>> i know it's difficult to you, mitch. it's hard to see these images. it's painful to you. that's how she'll be remembered, i guess. i read a point from tony bennett. he sang one of the last songs with her. he was quoting somebody else. he said there's this phrase, she sinned against her talent? do you see it? she sinned against her talent? in the end, it's just a terrible waste of a fabulous talent? >> i can't say. sinned against her talent? it's -- i don't know what to say to that. what happened was an accident. she didn't take her own life. it was an accident. there were -- it's been proven there were no drugs involved. >> i don't think he meant on the night itself.

i think he meant that the self-destructive pattern of behavior over a period of time -- >> she wasn't -- you could say that her behavior was self-destructive. she wasn't. at no point did she ever indicate she wanted to stop living. she had everything to live for. she had a wonderful family. she wanted to have children. she had a wonderful boyfriend. and i'm sure they would have gone on to get married and have a family. >> she was happy. she was in love, she had been clean of drugs for three years. you talked before the break about her genuinely enjoying this recovery. did you feel secure with her recovery? did you feel it was a genuine one or were you concerned? >> i was concerned. but we had like a draw on the experiences that we had with the recovery from the drugs. what she did was far as drugs were concerned was incredible. she stopped taking drugs. she wept on to a substitute for heroin. and then she weaned herself off

of that. it's almost unheard of. she stopped taking it about 18 months ago. she was completely clean. >> so she had extraordinary self-discipline when she wanted to. >> incredible self-discipline. >> was the achilles heel alcohol in the end? >> oh it clearly was. it clearly was. >> how bad an addiction was that for her after the drugs? >> alcohol is far more dangerous than drugs are anyway. as you probably know. it's far worse for you if that's the right expression. and it's -- the withdraws are very difficult, far more painful, far more debilitating -- see if i can -- debilitating, the withdraws themselves are debilitating. she would drink for two or three weeks and then she would detox for two or three weeks and that's the worst thing that anybody could do. because she would detox not under medical supervision. her doctor told her about six

months ago that he wrote to her and she wrote to me as well as her doctor and he said if this behavior conned, the bing drinking and then the detoxing, that could lead to -- to seizures which ultimately could lead to death. this was what the doctor said. and i guess she was like any other 27-year-old who thinks that smoking is not going to kill you. they're going to live forever. she chose to ignore the advice because she had just come off of the back of a two-week -- very successful detox period. and. >> had she been drinking the night she die? oh. >> she started drinking again, yeah. >> do you know how much she had that thigh? >> i don't know. >> i wasn't there, i was here. >> the results, she was clean of any drugs. but it would appear she had been drinking alcohol. >> there was alcohol in her system, yes.

>> do you know what actually killed her? >> we're still -- we know it's not drugs, but we don't know the official coroner's verdict. >> do you have any instinct? >> my instinct is that it's pretty much what the doctor warned us about, the chemical imbalances in the body are created by binging and then sustenance. it creates incredible imbalances in your body. >> she was tiny. >> she wasn't that tiny. >> the extraordinary thing. you remember the sequence of events. i'm sure you remember them all clearly. she did a gig in london, the hundred club. it was a fantastically successful gig. on the back of it, you, the management said, great, she's up for the tour. the european tour. she looks like she's on top form again. that's what the media reported. the buzz around amy was great. you tweeted at the time, don't worry about amy, she's fine. i declare an interest. my brother-in-law, my wife's brother was amy's sax player in the band, had been for years, loved her very dearly. i've seen the video footage of that night. it was a catastrophe.

it was a shambles. you must have been doubly so. you saw her performing brilliantly two weeks before. what happened in belgrade? >> when the show was booked. these things are booked nine months previously. we sat -- amy and i sat with ray, her manager, and she said do you want to do this, amy? she said, i'm desperate to go back to work, dad. i'm desperate to go back to work. please, let me go back to work. they said, she wants to go back to work. let her go back to work. but it was the pressure of -- i think it was the pressure of having all of those -- >> the dates -- >> which she wanted to do. nobody -- i can assure you, i didn't force her to do them. ray, her manager never forced her. and the record company never forced her to do anything. if anybody forced her to do anything, she would laugh at us all and run away. she wasn't the sort to be forced

into anything. she wanted to do it. >> take another break. i want to come back and talk about what is the amy foundation? what is it all about? who it's designed to help. ♪ fade to black who need

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you done to my heart ♪ >> not bad for a london cab driver, mate. the background. that's pretty impressive crooning. >> thank you. >> obviously where she got the singing from. tell me about the foundation. you say your first thought when you heard that amy had died was amy winehouse foundation. what was the concept? what is it about this foundation? who does it help? >> well, it helps disadvantaged children, young adults. it's basically split into three, it will be split into three parts. one area that i've been working on for sometime with keith faz and other people. >> british member of parliament. >> i've been speaking with the common select committee advising on drugs. there's very little help for anybody, let alone young adults. the one remaining juvenile rehabilitation center in england

was shut down, middle gate. >> really it's aimed at young people maybe like amy who get into drugs, get into alcohol, whatever, need real help who can't at the moment get the help they need. >> unless they can pay. this is the people that can't pay. >> how far advanced is the foundation now. >> as far as the foundation is concerned, we're more of a lobbying group at the moment. we're going to see andrew lands the secretary of state when i get back. the government themselves want to change the way things are being done. it's a question of reallocating the way that funding is given from the government to the nhs. it goes through an organization called the national treatment association and basically they're getting it all wrong. and the way that they deal with it is to incentivize people in prison to reduce their prison sentences. in other words, they're sending people like blake for instance who's been to three residential rehabilitations as an inducement to reduce his prison sentence

and somebody who's not a criminal hasn't got that kind of advantage. >> people watching say they want to help, want to get involved. what's the easiest way to do that? >> the easiest way is to go on to www.amywinehousefoundation.com at uk and donate. the other aspects are we're helping hospices, we're helping children's hospitals. i'm working with a small charity called hopes and dreams who send six terminally ill children away with their families to somewhere like disney world every year. it's these smaller charities we aim to help and aim to do the same in the usa, as well. >> take another break. i want to talk to you about your personal favorite memories of amy, when you've had time to look back over her life and career and stuff. what for you were the moments that you remember with most fondness. ♪ myself to you body and soul

♪ i gladly surrender myself to you body and soul ♪ >> that was amy's last recording, a due yet with tony bennett, body and soul on his new albums duets ii. quite an honor for her. he's talked very eloquently about her amazing talent.

i would imagine that song is going to be huge when it finally gets released. what for you, mitch, is the great memory of amy, either professionally or personally or both? >> the great memories are seeing her on stage for the first time, but my great memories, the last -- i went away on the friday to new york, as i say, i had a show the following monday at the blue note. and on the thursday she phoned me up. she was so excited. she phoned me three times a day every day. even when she was at her worst with the drugs. she phoned me three times a day. and it was dad, dad, dad, dad. what is it, darling? i just found a bundle of photographs, a box of photographs there's nana in it, there's your dad, there's alex when he was a little boy and i went around there and we were going through these photographs together. my memories of her, obviously, will never fade.

she's my daughter, but the love that she had for her family and her friends, and there's so much more that we can speak about but we don't have the time. and her generosity. that's what i'll remember most, her generosity. >> i'm told she had a great sense of humor. >> fantastic. >> that it was a laugh a minute with amy. >> this impression of her that somehow she was this depressive character. that was never the case. >> never. >> she had some ups and downs in her life, but she always remained a great cheery force to be around and a funny girl and everything else. i mean, you must miss her terribly, right? >> we're all heartbroken, heartbroken. >> what do you hope her legacy will be, mitch? >> her legacy will be her music. hopefully it will be -- hopefully there will be some more music. i think there's a great deal to

come. there will be some more, hopefully and her foundation, her foundation is going to help thousands and thousands of children and what better legacy could you want than that? >> she was one of the greatest talents i've ever seen. as a singer/songwriter, i mean to me the best britain's produced sort of elton john days and you know, i think that the legacy will be the amazing music. i also think that your interview today will stand as a great legacy to amy winehouse because she had the love of a great father. and i don't think there's anything more you could have done. people that criticize you should just shut up because they don't know the half of it, and you tried everything you could. and you have my deepest sympathy. you really do. >> thank you. >> good luck with everything, mitch. >> thank you, piers. >> thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you. >> tragedy at an air race in reno, nevada.