Drug binge ‘nearly killed Winehouse’

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

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 newspaper: “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.”

Fielder-Civil described how, in panic, he had pulled his ex 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”.

In divorce papers before the High Court, he said he found it “intolerable” to live with Winehouse.