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Amy Winehouse's Close Friend Tyler James Opens Up About Her Death for the First Time

Amy Winehouse's Close Friend Tyler James Opens Up About Her Death for the First Time

Tyler James is looking back at his friendship with Amy Winehouse.

It will be the 10 year anniversary of Amy‘s death in July and Tyler discussed his friendship with the singer in an interview with the Sunday Times on Friday (June 11).

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He told the outlet that just days before she passed away from alcohol poisoning, he decided to leave the flat they lived in together in the hopes she’d stop her drinking.

“I was running out of ideas,” Tyler said, adding, “Amy was my world. I never have had that connection with someone again and I never will. I loved her. I was on a mission. I had a task. I had a job [to make her well] and that’s all I wanted to do.”

Tyler also said that the Back to Black singer worked extremely to get sober, but that it was difficult “to go through that in front of people.”

He compared Amy to Britney Spears and Princess Diana, detailing the ways in which she was “hounded” by the media.

“People think they know Amy‘s story, and obviously she can’t tell her story. But I wanted to tell what it was like for her, having to actually live in that world,” he explained. “With that level of fame, that level of intrusion, that lack of privacy. I don’t think people really realize the effect that has on a person. She craved normality. The biggest thing that f–ked Amy up was being famous.”

Tyler added that privately the performer would describe fame as a “cancer” and that eventually she became mistrustful of those around her.

“I was the only friend she had left by then, the only person around her all the time who wasn’t paid to be around her,” he shared.

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