Documentary Seeks To Free Amy Winehouse From Her Tabloid Legacy
We interview Nick Shymanksy, Amy Winehouse’s longtime manager and friend and Asif Kapadia, the director of the new documentary Amy.
Shymansky was one of the people who tried to stage an intervention to get her to rehab.
“That song [Rehab] is pretty much verbatim what happened that day,” Shymansky tells Gross. “It was all lined up for her to go [to rehab], and who knows what would’ve happened. … But we had it all lined up and [Winehouse’s father] changed his mind and, if anything, belittled my position and also my point of view.”
Winehouse never made it to rehab that day, and her song about the experience became her biggest hit — and also, maybe, her biggest miss. “Later on people watched her singing it with a glass of wine in her hand, or a vodka, and sitting there dancing to it, but this is a cry for help in a way,” Kapadia says.
