Winehouse 'nearly died' after drug binge

Amy Winehouse nearly died in her ex-husband’s arms after a three-day heroin and crack binge, he said today.

Blake Fielder-Civil, 27, told how the singer’s eyes went blank and she had a fit before she passed out and stopped breathing.

He told The Sun: “It was nearly midnight and I’d finally got her upstairs. We were sitting on the bed talking. Her eyes suddenly went blank...

“She started having a fit on the bed. She slid down on to the floor before I could stop her.

“She started quivering again and it suddenly grew into what seemed like a full-blown epileptic fit.”

He described how, in panic, he had pulled his then wife’s tongue out of her mouth so she would not bite it, opened her mouth and breathed air down her throat.

He added: “I held her to me – and I thought she was dying in my arms... I couldn’t bear for her to die in front of me.”

The 25-year-old star had started a drink and drugs binge three days earlier in a pub near Heathrow to celebrate the success of her 2006 album 'Back to Black', the newspaper reported.

She was taken to London’s University College Hospital where she was put on a drip after collapsing again in the casualty department reception, according to the report.

Fielder-Civil, who divorced Winehouse this month on the grounds of her adultery, said the episode was “the most frightening thing I had ever seen”.

He had been taking heroin and crack too and was trying to get his wife to go to bed as she had not slept for three days, he said.

The self-described music video producer stated in divorce papers before the UK High Court he found it “intolerable” to live with Winehouse.

The couple were married in May 2007 in Miami, Florida.