Winehouse Divorce: “Love is a Losing Game”
British singer Amy Winehouse and video production assistant husband Blake Fielder-Civil were granted a divorce by the High Court of London on Thursday, July 16. Fielder-Civil filed for a divorce allegedly in response to Winehouse’s adultery and infidelity.
Winehouse has confirmed involvement with 21-year-old actor, Josh Bowman. Bowman and Winehouse were reported together earlier this year in St. Lucia while husband Fielder-Civil remained behind prison bars in England.
Winehouse and Fielder-Civil were married for two years, having tied the knot in May 2007. Just six months into their marriage, Fielder-Civil, 27, was convicted and sentenced for perverting the course of justice and grievous bodily harm after a bar fight.
Fielder-Civil filed for divorce from within prison. Winehouse has just returned to Britain after a six month retreat on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
The judge of the London High Court granted the couple a “decree nisi,’ a preliminary grant of divorce without either party appearing in court. If no cause to the contrary is presented within the next six weeks, the divorce will become absolute and will be dissolved according to Winehouse’s spokesman, Chris Goodman.
The couple’s relationship has been turbulent. Winehouse has battled drug and alcohol abuse, which she muses over her hesitation to enter drug and alcohol rehabilitation in her hit “Rehab.” Fielder-Civil’s influence and involvement with Winehouse correlates to excessive drug and alcohol abuse and self-destructive behavior.
The two seem to feed off of one another’s habits. Winehouse has referred to Fielder-Civil as the male-version of herself. While having pled not guilty, Winehouse was charged in September 2008 for quarrelling and hitting a fan after agreeing to pose for a photograph at a charity ball in London.
Winehouse’s dichotomous and controversial life has been depicted by professional fame and personal turmoil. Alston of Newsweek called her “a perfect storm of sex kitten, raw talent and poor impulse control.”
Her tumultuous life and relationship may inform the basis of the lyrics to her world-wide hit from her album “Back to Black,” where she sings that “love is a losing game.”
July 21st, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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August 6th, 2009 at 4:01 am
infidelity is the primary reason of divorce. Too bad that was Amy who cheated his husband. let’s just pray that the ex-couples will remain ok, after all.