Tuesday 2 September 2008

Amy Winehouse - Paris Festival Threatens Legal Action Against Winehouse

Amy Winehouse could be sued by the organisers of a Paris music festival after she withdrew hours before she was due to perform because of "illness".

The 24-year-old did not move around to the Rock En Seine fete due to an malady which resulted in her needing to rest, her spokesman said.

However, a statement from the Rock En Seine organisers said thither was "no explanation of the exact reasons for her absence".

"Amy Winehouse should have arrived on the site early Friday evening," the statement continued.

"We were told by her broker at 20:00 [local time] that she wasn't coming."

Commenting on the star's withdrawal from the lineup, Winehouse's spokesman explained: "Amy Winehouse was regrettably ineffective to perform at the Rock En Seine show in Paris due to illness.

"She was taken sick at her house and wasn't able to journey to France for the concert."

She had performed at the Glastonbury and V festivals this summer and is due to use up to the stage at Bestival future weekend.

The Rehab star was hospitalised in June and diagnosed with early microscope stage emphysema ahead another hospital visit last month after suffering a reaction to medication patch at her north London home.

Her forefather Mitch had reportedly claimed that his daughter's potable had been spiked with ecstasy.

But according to Winehouse's mother Janis the hospital visit was simply a matter of human erroneous belief.

"The truth is that Amy terminated up in hospital this week because she motley up the medication she's taking to help her come off drugs," she told the Daily Mirror newspaper.





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