Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil insists he’s ‘not responsible’ for her death and claims they were ‘very much talking’ about reconciling before she died

The ex-husband of tragic pop icon Amy Winehouse says he is not responsible for her untimely death – despite admitting he had ‘a part to play’ in her desperate battle with drug addiction – and claims they even talked about reconciliation just days before she died.

Before she was found dead at her Camden home in 2011, aged just 27, Winehouse was in and out of treatment for drug and alcohol addiction and was struggling with alcohol withdrawal and anxiety issues.

Two investigations determined that the singer’s blood alcohol content was five times over the legal drink-driving limit; The cause of death was later recorded as accidental due to alcohol poisoning.

Paul C. Brunson’s latest episode touches on the tragedy We Need To Talk The 43-year-old Blake Fielder-Civil podcast debunked the belief that Winehouse’s struggles with substance and alcohol addiction began when they began a relationship.

‘My stance now is that I know a lot of people, especially people who read the media twenty years ago, have the idea that Amy’s death was my responsibility,’ he said.

‘As I always say, I do not avoid any responsibility. If I did something, I raise my hand, but I’m fine. I’m not okay, but I’ve made peace… yes, I had a role to play.’

Fielder-Civil, a former video production assistant, exchanged vows with Winehouse in Miami Beach in 2007, following a whirlwind romance that began with a chance meeting at a Camden bar.

Their turbulent, co-dependent relationship would later be documented by the singer on her Grammy-winning second and tragically final album, Back To Black.

The couple’s divorce took place two years before Winehouse was found unresponsive by a bodyguard at her north London home, and Fielder-Civil believes the singer was partly responsible for her death.

‘Amy herself had some authority and it is absolutely no disrespect to say that, but Amy did what she wanted to do and even continued knowing that the drink was starting to take its toll on her,’ he said.

Winehouse, who is buried next to her grandmother Cynthia Levy, is said to have suffered nine interventions from her parents for her drunken lifestyle.

Her father Mitch, despite being an extraordinary achiever, had struggled to get his beloved daughter to give up the dangerous, drug-based life that was killing her.

And Fielder-Civil has long been blamed for his troubles after admitting that he introduced her to heroin in the mid-2000s.

But he insists Winehouse had been experimenting with drugs, particularly cocaine, before they met.

“I need to defend myself a little bit on some issues, you know it’s not fair for people who love me to lie,” he told Brunson. ‘Amy had started trying cocaine with her ex-partner.

‘There are pictures of Amy at the BRITs, you know, ‘they powdered her nose’ and yes, that was known. Amy was known to experiment with drugs and it had nothing to do with me.

‘Heroin was something I said I smoked ten times with some friends over the course of six months.

‘I was at this point too. But yeah, it was the first time he did it with me and it was probably my sixth time.’

Blake Fielder-Civil exchanged vows with Winehouse on Miami Beach in May 2007, following a whirlwind romance that began with a chance meeting at a Camden bar (seen June 2007)

The couple’s divorce took place two years before Winehouse was found unresponsive in north London, and Fielder-Civil believes the singer was partly responsible for her death

Although her descent into addiction began at the same time as Winehouse, Fielder-Civil maintains that she never encouraged the singer to take it.

‘No, there was nothing encouraging or discouraging,’ he insisted. ‘It felt the same way if I said I know this will sound strange to a lot of people, it would be like if I said to my friend would you like a beer at the bar? I don’t hope they fall into alcoholism…

‘I never thought they would become drug addicts. It had no destructive elements. “Do you want to try this?” was.

‘Amy never got to the stage of injecting drugs. I did.

‘I can say that my time, especially after Amy’s passing, was as miserable and full as any drug addict could experience.’

Fielder-Civil was imprisoned at HMP Leeds, sentenced to 32 months for domestic burglary and firearms offences, when staff notified them of his death.

Tragically, the former couple had only spoken a few days earlier and were making tentative plans to ‘reconcile’ shortly before his death.

He recalled: ‘Unfortunately I was in prison the week Amy passed. We were still talking about the possibility of reconciling.

‘So I would say the definitive moment when I knew this wasn’t going to happen was when I was told he had passed away. It’s not like, oh, if Amy were alive now, we’d be together, I’m not saying that, I have a life now, I’m in love, I’m happy.

‘But I don’t hesitate to say that we will be in each other’s lives from now on.’

Fielder-Civil said she prayed every night that Winehouse would still be alive after she was released from prison because “she had a huge fear that something would happen to her if I wasn’t there.”

‘So when they told me that [she was dead]My first thought was: This is my worst nightmare, this isn’t true. So my brain realized it was going to be a hoax.’

Fielder-Civil was imprisoned at HMP Leeds, sentenced to 32 months for domestic burglary and firearms offences, when staff notified him of his death

He added: ‘You know, things like that happen and then they showed me a BBC link and obviously I was more, I was more conscious of it happening at that point, but I immediately started feeling dizzy.

‘And yeah, obviously I kept it together. You can’t cry while walking down the halls in prison. I had to wait until I got into my cell.

‘My cellmate at the time was a really tough guy. He saw this on the news and immediately hugged me. I burst into tears. He started crying too. So it seemed strange to me that I was being supported by someone I had known for a few weeks.

‘That was the only consolation I had at that moment as I had lost so much of my life, my heart. Someone I will never see again, hear again, or do anything to again. ‘This was too much.’

The full interview can be watched in the latest episode of Paul C Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast, available now on YouTube.