Amy Winehouse and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, the true story of their tormented love

They met at the Good Mixer, a pub in Camden, London. Blake Fielder-Civil was entering the venue to celebrate a win. «I opened the door and Amy Winehouse was the first person I saw, and this is all. From that night onwards our tortuous love story began”, he told al Daily Mail.

Tumultuous relationship that is at the heart of the new biopic of Sam Taylor Johnson, Back To Black, starring Marisa Abela and now in cinemas. If, however, in the eyes of many fans Blake Fielder-Civil, who was then a music video production assistant and was tall and flamboyant, he remains a “hopeless heroin addict”, as well as the one responsible for the premature death of Amy Winehouse, at just 27 years old, in the biopic his figure is somewhat rehabilitated. In 2018, Fielder-Civil told Piers Morgan that he would “always carry a burden of guilt” for what happened to Winehouse, but that “Amy didn’t do anything she didn’t want to do. I feel like I’m the only person who’s ever taken responsibility, and I’ve done it since Amy was alive,” referring to the singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse, who previously accused him of “killing” his daughter .

Let’s go back to the pub. It was 2005 and Fielder was in another relationship at the time, but it ended within a month: he and Amy Winehouse quickly became inseparable. She wrote “Blake” on her chest a week after the meeting, he wrote “Amy” behind his ear. Six months later, he left her for her ex-girlfriend, and Winehouse published Back to Blackhis iconic albumthe one that transformed her into a planetary star.