When Amy Winehouse Attacks
As you may recall, Amy Winehouse was videotaped assaulting an audience member at the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday night (partway into her slurred and tipsy performance that night) after reportedly getting hit with a hat which caused her to retaliate and punch the person she thought threw the hat at her. It turns out that she ended up hitting an innocent person and not the hat culprit and the innocent assault victim managed to record the entire incident on video … which he shared with the BBC:
A man who was allegedly elbowed in the head by Amy Winehouse at Glastonbury Festival has handed his digital camera footage of the incident to the BBC. James Gostelow, 25, from London, said the singer caught him on the forehead after someone in the crowd behind him threw a hat at her. Winehouse, 24, was seen apparently lashing out at the audience during her Pyramid Stage performance on Saturday. But police said they had received no complaints of assault. Broadcast footage on the night appeared to show Winehouse elbow one fan after being hit on the head by a hat, then throw a series of punches into the crowd. Mr Gostelow said the incident was a case of mistaken identity. “I saw a hat being thrown from behind me and it hit Amy’s beehive. She looked down, saw me looking up, and her elbow went for me. She caught my forehead, then someone may have shouted something from the back, which is when she went in again.” Winehouse, who performed in front of an estimated 75,000 people, jumped off the stage and into the security pit for the last two songs of her set … The star’s spokesperson had no comment on Mr Gostelow’s recollection of the incident. However, on Saturday her representatives said: “The ‘lashing out’ was when someone tried to grab her hair and she reacted.” The singer has returned to a London clinic after appearing at the music festival.
It’s actually a nice surprise that the alleged assault victim has no intention of launching a lawsuit against Ms. Winehouse cuz if that biz had happened here in the US, she’d've already done been sued by now. Altho it looked very much like Amy wasn’t at her peak condition, you can’t really blame her for lashing out if she really did have something thrown at her (unless the tipsy, falling over, slurred lyrics routine is her peak condition and then, well, I guess you still can’t blame her). The girl is a mess but this is, by far, the least of her messes. Maybe she should add anger management classes to the list of professional services she would greatly benefit from but prolly has no intention of ever taking on.
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:06 am
Can she become any more of a train wreck?
July 1st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: she is soooo skank!
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
I frikkin love this girl,,GO AMY!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:06 am
she was great at glastonbury. the crowd loved her. she gave an amazing performance, although it was kinda weird towards the end when this kicked off.