Tony Bennett’s regret about Amy Winehouse
Los Angeles, Nov 17 (IANS) Singer Tony Bennett regrets not talking to late singer Amy Winehouse about addiction before her death.
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The “Back to Black” hitmaker passed away in July 2011 from accidental alcohol poisoning and the 90-year-old singer wishes he could have told her that she was his “idol and a once-in-a-lifetime talent” before she passed away , reports femalefirst.co.uk.
“Should I have told her that I’d contended a little bit with drugs and alcohol myself and knew how you can fall into a bad cycle, but I also knew that you could bring yourself back?,” Benett wrote in his book.
“Would it have made a difference if someone she considered an idol had said to her something like, ‘You’re my idol. You are a once-in-a-lifetime talent. Please don’t take that from the world’,” Bennett added.
And the “Lady is a tramp” singer praised Winehouse for her “engaging, funny and charming” nature.
“Amy was engaging, funny, charming, and utterly professional but a little bit shy. She said she was nervous because she had never recorded a song with someone she considered to be one of her idols,” the singer penned in his book.