It’s a real dark, dark issue.Follow rumors continue to fly about what killed Amy Winehouse - the latest suggest that crack and heroin may have been involved - the singer’s parents continue to maintain that she was sober when she died, and that in fact, she died from alcohol withdrawal. I just want to try to raise awareness of bulimia. “Beat was in real need of an online forum … so that there’s always someone there to talk to. Now there’s only three, one of which is exclusively for young men. The situation in this country is that about five or six years ago there were around 10-15 eating disorder charities out there. The charity recently donated money to Beat to enable it to continue running an internet forum with a dedicated moderator.Īlex Winehouse said: “We had to support eating disorder charities because no one talks about it. The Amy Winehouse Foundation is run by Alex and his father, Mitch, a singer and former black cab driver. Research has found that 20% of anorexia sufferers will die prematurely.Īfter Winehouse’s death, her family set up a foundation in her name to curb misuse of drug and alcohol by young people.
Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Bulimia is associated with severe medical complications. It is estimated that, of those with eating disorders, 40% are bulimic. More recent research from the NHS, however, suggested up to 6.4% of adults, potentially 3.2 million people, display signs of an eating disorder.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) suggests 1.6 million people in the UK are affected by an eating disorder, of whom around 11% are male. As a result, the figures omit all those who have not come forward, have not been diagnosed, are receiving private treatment or are being treated as an outpatient or in the community. Although the Department of Health provides hospital episode statistics, these include only those affected by eating disorders who are being treated as NHS inpatients. We all knew she was doing it but it’s almost impossible, especially if you’re not talking about it.”Īccording to Beat, the world’s largest eating disorders charity, there is a lack of data detailing how many people in the UK suffer from an eating disorder. They stopped doing it, but Amy never really stopped. They’d put loads of rich sauces on their food, scarf it down and throw it up. He explained that, as a 17-year-old, his sister had a group of friends who “were all doing it. “Had she not have had an eating disorder, she would have been physically stronger,” he said.Īlex Winehouse revealed that Amy had developed bulimia in her late teens and had never shaken off the illness. Winehouse, who won five Grammy awards for her breakthrough album, Back to Black, died in July 2011 at the age of 27.Īn inquest recorded a verdict of misadventure after finding that she had 416mg of alcohol per decilitre in her blood – more than five times the legal drink-drive limit and enough to make her comatose and depress her respiratory system.Īccording to her brother, who was speaking to mark the opening of an exhibition dedicated to his sister’s life at the Jewish Museum in Camden, north London, her system had been fatally weakened by years of bulimia, a disease in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting. He added: “She would have died eventually, the way she was going, but what really killed her was the bulimia.” In his first full-length interview, Alex Winehouse, 33, the singer’s older brother, told the Observer Magazine that his sister’s long battle with bulimia “left her weaker, and more susceptible”. Amy Winehouse, whose life was dogged by drug and alcohol abuse, was killed by an eating disorder rather than by her addictions, according to her brother.
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