As if the tragic news of singer Amy Winehouse‘s untimely death at 27 wasn’t sad enough, today we hear that her story gets even more sad. For the past few years, Amy Winehouse — in her supposed bid to clean up her life — has been sneaking off to the island of St. Lucia to [...]
As if the tragic news of singer Amy Winehouse‘s untimely death at 27 wasn’t sad enough, today we hear that her story gets even more sad. For the past few years, Amy Winehouse — in her supposed bid to clean up her life — has been sneaking off to the island of St. Lucia to get away from the pressures and temptations she faced at home in London, England. In that time, Amy befriended a now 10-year old girl named Dannika Augustine and, apparently, grew to love her very much. It is being reported this weekend that Amy was actually in the process of adopting Dannika before her death. Forgetting for a minute how painfully obvious it was that Amy was clearly NOT ready to be a mother to anyone, this news just adds more tragedy to an already sad story :(
Amy Winehouse was in the middle of adopting a poor St Lucian girl before she died. The troubled singer had started the process of becoming a mum to 10-year-old Dannika Augustine, who she met on the idyllic Caribbean island. Amy had booked her ticket to visit the schoolgirl next week. The child’s grandmother revealed the singer had already hired lawyers for the adoption, but her plans were cut short by her sudden death last week aged just 27. Pretty Dannika was living in poverty with her single mum, who was struggling to feed her, when Amy took her under her wing during one of her many stays on the island over the last two years. Devastated Dannika said: “Amy was already my mother. I would call her mum and she would call me her daughter. She took care of me and we had fun together. I loved her and she loved me. She was the most amazing person and I was looking forward to living with her here or in London. I cannot believe she is gone. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.” Amy met Dannika through the girl’s grandmother, Marjorie Lambert, 57, who runs a beach bar, in 2009. She said: “Amy loved Dannika with all her heart. I don’t know why Amy took to Dannika above all the other children on the island, but from the moment they met they were inseparable. They would spend all day playing, horse-riding and walking up and down the beach hand-in-hand. Amy used to beg me: ‘I want to adopt Dannika. I want to take her to England.’ She was prepared to move to St Lucia to be her full-time mum. Amy wanted to have a child so bad. If she had not died, there is no doubt she would be here in St Lucia completing the adoption process. There is no way she would have done what she did to herself if Dannika was with her.” She said Dannika’s mother, Nadia Germaine, 31, was willing to give her daughter up for adoption because she could not find a job and was struggling to bring up her family.
Yes, it would have been a VERY bad idea if Amy had actually gone thru with this adoption and legally took control of his young girl’s life but I’m certain that none of that matters at all to 10 year old Dannika. She was prolly very excited to leave St. Lucia for London but … it just wasn’t meant to be. Maybe it’s for the best, we can never know … but, as I mention above, this just adds another tragic layer to the sad tale of Amy Winehouse‘s death.
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