According to Rolling Stone, Amy Winehouse’s doctor, Cristina Romete was keeping a close eye on her when she was back in London that late June and July. A close family friend told Rolling Stone that Winehouse felt terrible about her performance in Belgrade, saying she felt like “… she had let everyone down in Serbia and was very sorry about it.”

Romete told the magazine that Winehouse had maintained her sobriety until July 20, when she started drinking again. That decision would prove fatal.

The night before she was found dead, her live-in security guard, Andrew Morris, said Winehouse was just hanging out at home watching TV and listening to music, per Rolling Stone. She was also imbibing while she did so, as an autopsy report would later show. 

Though Morris said he checked on Winehouse at 2 a.m. and again at 10 a.m. in the early morning on July 23 to find her sleeping, by 3 p.m. when she still wasn’t up he checked on her again. He found her not breathing. Paramedics declared her dead.

According to the BBC, on the night before she died, Winehouse saw Romete who said, “She specifically said she did not want to die.” 

Winehouse’s cause of death was alcohol toxicity, with a coroner saying that the amount of alcohol in her system was “a level of alcohol commonly associated with fatality,” per the BBC. Two empty bottles of vodka were found by her bed. 

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