He'll destroy her

By Sean Hamilton, Showbiz Editor, And Louise Ford Sean.Hamilton@sundaymirror.co.uk 19/08/2007

Amy Winehouse (pic:getty)

EXCLUSIVE GANGSTER LIFTS THE LID ON AMY HUSBAND'S SICK LIFE OF CRIME & DRUGS

Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil was a junkie drug dealer who lured the star into a depraved world of heroin addiction and self-harm.

A drugs boss who employed the 24-year-old to sell cocaine has come forward to tell the truth about Blake's hold on the star.

He believes Blake only got together with Amy - one of Britain's most talented singers - to fund his own Class-A drugs habit, then sucked the sultry singer into his world.

The North London gangster, who asked to remain anonymous for his own safety, claims wildman Blake:

is a long-term crack addict, obsessed with money and fame;

was employed to sell drugs by a London gang with a history of murder and violence;

sold £1,000 a week in cocaine to young girls on London's party scene, but snorted most of his profits away;

was given a luxury £250,000 garden flat in Islington to use to try to lure impressionable youngsters; and

hosted sordid self-harming parties where girls cut themselves.

The crime boss reveals how Blake got Amy, 23, hooked on heroin and cocaine when she was just 21.

Talking from his West London HQ, he said: "When Blake first introduced me to Amy, she was really against hard drugs. She'd only smoke weed and drink and that was it.

"But she was drawn to Blake like a moth to a flame. She was attracted to her bit of rough and he saw her coming. She was a walking chequebook.

"He had all these girlie disciples under his spell and Amy was one of them. She was just another bird he could sleep with.

"Then he introduced her to cocaine - which they called 'bracket' - and to crack and heroin. She's ended up going all the way to taking a mix of crack and heroin. That's hard to get off. She's in deep.

"She's got a serious addiction now and I can tell you without a doubt... Blake's the one to blame."

Blake has remained something of an enigma - the grinning man on Amy's arm who hides behind his trademark hat.

He claims to be the "rock" who is supporting Amy through treatment for her drug and mental health problems at the luxury Causeway Centre retreat off the Essex coast after she collapsed from an overdose two weeks ago.

Blake says he is a runner in the film industry. But according to the gangster, that is just a cover. Young Blake first got involved in the London drugs scene after leaving Bourne Grammar School in Lincolnshire at 16. He had a series of jobs in shops and bars in trendy North London but fell in to dealing drugs to satisfy his own growing cocaine habit.

The Sunday Mirror's source first met him five years ago when he was chased into a pub by another gang wanting to settle a drug debt.

The crime lord said: "He came bursting into this pub being chased by these guys. Blake ran into the toilets and they followed him in and they were in there straddling him up, battering and beating him.

"Our boys followed and beat them all off and cleaned him up."

Our source took pity on him, and they quickly became close friends. He said: "I liked him, he was funny. He was like a play-thing for me."

But their relationship was bizarre, with the pair spending hours together competing with one another to take more and more drugs.

The informant said: "Blake's always been on crack or taking coke ever since I've known him. We did some crazy stuff together.

"He was a friend. I took him in and looked after him.

"My little buzz was to get him to be cocky. I would get off on the fact that people wouldn't like him but they wouldn't say anything because he was with me."

The gang decided Blake would be useful to them - as a dealer to young trendy kids. Blake was given the use of a £250,000 flat in expensive Islington, which belonged to a man in prison. He was supplied with cocaine powder, crack cocaine and heroin to flog to young girls who Blake socialised with.

The source added: "I gave him the flat so I knew where he was and what he was up to with my money.

"Blake was managing to sell about £1,000 of drugs a week. But he wasn't the best dealer because he would take loads of stuff himself. We would arrange to give him a certain amount and he was supposed to come back with the money. But there was often cash missing."

Obsessed with self-mutilation, he also hosted bizarre self-harming parties where he would share drugs with fellow partygoers before they cut parts of their bodies.

Our source said: "He had loads of women, a whole harem of them. He just used to coast from one to the next. Amy became one of them."

The source remembers meeting Amy two years ago. She had disappeared into her "lost years" between the release of her first album Frank in 2003 and her latest album Back To Black - which has turned her into an international star. Amy - who is from a loving North London Jewish family - was hanging out in Camden and had lost direction in life. Her dad Mitch is a cab driver and her mum Janis is a pharmacist. They divorced when Amy was little. Although she was drinking a lot and smoking some marijuana, she had hardly touched anything stronger.

Amy quickly became besotted with Blake after they met in a bar and even had his name tattooed over her breast. But she dumped him last year over claims he was cheating. The break-up inspired her to write her No.1 album Back To Black. She then found love with chef Alex Jones-Donelly.

But earlier this year Amy split up with Alex and went on a series of huge benders - winding up back in Blake's arms. They soon married in Miami. She has been in decline ever since, missing gigs and regularly appearing drunk and drugged up.

However, the source remembers how cold Blake used to be towards her. He said: "At the time I met her she wasn't famous. She'd done well and disappeared back into obscurity.

"Blake would laugh about her not having enough money. But he said if Amy ever made it, she would be his. It's not a coincidence to me that they got married after her career boomed this year.

"Blake is a really bright kid, very funny. Amy would do anything for him. I saw those pictures of Amy's arms - and you could see she had cut herself. She's got into this self-harming thing as well. I'm worried he will destroy her.

"She'd never go near any drugs, she'd cuss us all for doing Class As.

"She was very staunch about it. She had an appetite for destruction but alcohol was her thing. I've seen her drink a whole bottle of vodka in half an hour. Her drugs problem is all down to him. Now he's got hold of her money, he can get more gear.

The whole thing has spiralled out of control.

"Amy invited Blake out to Milan when she was out on tour, he was boasting about how he had bagged himself a pop star and that she'd asked him to marry her. And the next thing we know, they are married."

Blake fell out with the gang when he fled after seven months in the flat - owing them drug money.

The insider recalled: "One day he just left. The house was f***ed up, blood everywhere, sprayed up the walls.

The kitchen was filled with knives and blood.

"That was Blake's thing. Other people would have breakfast or a cigarette in the morning. He would wake up and and cut himself."

'Blake had loads of women who he'd coast between. Amy became one of them'

'He would sell £1,000 of drugs a week, but would take loads of it himself'