Amy Winehouse's Ex-Husband Blake Fielder-Civil Responds to 'Back to Black' Biopic

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field and the fight against addiction, it opens in theaters today. Friends of the late singer have criticized him for being too sympathetic to Blake, but he says it's a fair portrayal of what happened. We'll talk to him in a moment about what he thinks of the film, but first here's a little clip from the film. Well, Blake is with us now. It's good to see you this morning. There has been a lot of talk about this film. There are so many strong feelings towards Amy from fans.

Strong feelings towards you too, from the family and fans. You saw it yourself. Yes, I did it first of all. What did you do with this? First of all. It is a surreal experience. a movie about someone, you recognize that person, but it's not that person you know. Same for Jack, who also played me. It was a surreal, surreal watch, but when I watch the movie, I have to see it from my point of view first. as someone that I was married to, so I'm looking at it as someone that not only was I friends with Amy, we were married, you know, we were together, we were deeply in love from that to the addiction, so there were some really difficult parts to process, but the advantage of that is that it was almost therapeutic in a way, there were some parts that allowed me to feel like I was seeing a more accurate representation of the relationship not in the sense of being liberated or whitewashed, as you alluded to in the comments people have fact, just in a sense, it wasn't just about addiction and and you know, it might have been the salacious headlines and paparazzi targeting that there was addiction, but it was just one aspect of the relationship starting, as every relationship does. .

Sam Taylor Johnson, the director, has said that because there has been criticism that You've been given I think one of the quotes is about a Disney prince. Many people have long blamed you for drawing her into the addictions that ultimately led to her being fairly or unfairly. But they said it was very important. to show how you two fell in love. What attracted Amy to you in the first place? What was the chemistry? Did you see that in the movie? Yes, I do. I think the problem is that the story that that had been. perpetuated o o o the narrative should say was something I learned pretty quickly Sam and Jack and I didn't talk to Marissa but they weren't interested in repeating that Jack when he came to see me he said so you met the me Jack, yeah, he came to see me, it's really, really, really nice guy, came to see me, didn't ask for any notes or anything like that, just out of respect, really just to be, but made it clear that they weren't interested.

I'm repeating that story and I think what Sam said was a nice quote that really if Amy wrote this album that everyone loves so much about this person and Amy is known for being smart and not suffering fools and you know she's a strong. person in many ways there must be something more to this relationship than just an adult user or whatever I was betrayed by or someone who was sinisterly driving Amy into addiction, which wasn't the case when you look

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at your time with Amy , I guess anyone, when you lose a loved one and regardless of what your relationship is, what the circumstances were, you feel some level of some kind of responsibility, you know, think about it, actually you know I could have done more, we all think that. sometimes.

I lost my mother we all thought we could we could have done something more in your position do you sometimes go to bed at night thinking it's okay? I probably wish I hadn't done that or I wish I had done it many times. and I said no, I don't know, I talk about it often, but yes, I do. To be honest, I felt like I've done pretty much nothing but try to take responsibility in my own way for quite some time. It has long been a topic of crossover debate and has impacted many things in my life over the years.

I get death threats online on social media, still Amy inspires a lot of ferocity, you know, fandom and devotion, um, so that idea, yeah, I do. you feel what kind of things you think to blame what is anything would you change anything you look

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and say well I wish I had done that a little more or a little less or there were certain aspects to the movie yeah when I'm watching and I think you know it's the same for anyone. I'm sure you watch and think: I wish I hadn't done that. I wish I had known that one of those must have been introducing him to heroin.

I mean, that has to be a big regret, a regret for using it yourself at the time and a regret for introducing it, yeah. I feel like the idea of ​​heroin is obviously a horrible, terrible drug. I haven't been clean for a long time. years, but I was also in addiction, it's not as

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and white as that. He was a very, very young person. I thought I had all the answers, but yes, of course, not to be TR, of course, I'm sorry. any drug, but yeah, if I had known how it was going to play out, I would have been a lot more careful with the things I was doing, the people I was doing it with, no one was looking out for me, either, and and about that you know, its family, particularly his father, have been very critical of you, don't you think they would change after watching the film?

Do you think this offers insight that could lead to some kind of I don't know? I know a conversation between you. What are your thoughts? What I was thinking before watching the movie was that that was something that maybe didn't need to be said. However, after watching the movie, one of the things that caught my attention was the person of Amy. Marissa did a very good job. In my opinion, the job of playing Amy in that, because they have the mannerisms, this singing, it made you feel like you were looking at A's mannerisms in a way, obviously, I know it's not Amy, you know it's a movie, you have to suspend a little bit, but there were certain gestures in the way she moved her hands, the way she flooded her eyes, the little movement of her feet, etc., there were a lot of things that reminded me of Amy, yes, I think Mitch watching the movie would also see parts of the movie that maybe he thinks he shouldn't have done this, you know, his regrets are I have mine not as deep as mine.

I shouldn't wonder, but I think one thing that comes out of the movie is that Amy was a peacemaker and I think watching the movie yesterday I thought she probably wanted Mitch and I to have maybe a "we don't need to be best friends" thing. , but I wouldn't mind having you, what would you say to Mitch and and Amy's family, now that you know they might be watching, they might be watching this interview, what would you say to them to try to reach them? I think they must have seen the movie too. I hope they do too. how can it be, you know that Mitch is a father to my father, I understand his position on me, I understand that I really do, but I hope he sees that there was genuine love there and I love Amy, you know that a lot, and she loved .

Me too um and if there was anything that could get her to come back, obviously I would, would you like to meet up with Mitch and sit down with him? Yes, I feel it even more since I saw the movie like I said. Only it's a bit like a therapy session. I guess she might be a little more selfish than me, but I feel like for Amy's sake, I feel like she always said you two should talk, you two should talk when she was alive, when we. We had already separated, obviously, my ex father and we didn't talk, so you know, it's something that's been going on for many, many years, now that you feel far away it would be a gift and something that she would want, that's true, yes, yes , Well.

Oh my gosh, um, we could talk to you CU I'm sure there's a lot to talk to you about, just briefly, are you okay now? I'm, yes, yes, you are, you feel. Life is good, I'm, I'm in a. I'm in a much better place than the person I recognized in the movie, but it took me a while, but yeah, yeah, BL, we really appreciate you coming and you know in the end this is a personal relationship between you and Amy, just you. you know yourself I know what happened there and I think it's great that you're willing to come and have this conversation and that's really important and I'm sure you still miss it.

Not everyone will agree with you, but it's still your right to come and say here and we say whatever you want and we really appreciate it thank you thank you thank you thank you