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Criticism of Winehouse's husband

Winehouse - 'unaware of husband's release'
Winehouse - 'unaware of husband's release'

The mother of singer Amy Winehouse has hit out at her son-in-law for not telling her daughter he was about to be released from jail.

Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, checked into rehab last week after leaving prison following almost 12 months behind bars.

But Winehouse's mother, Janis, said her pop star daughter was devastated that Fielder-Civil had not told her he was being released from Edmunds Hill Prison in Suffolk.

Winehouse, 25, is now thought to want to divorce Fielder-Civil, who was sentenced to 27 months for helping to beat up a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice.

Instead of visiting Fielder-Civil when he was released from jail on Wednesday and ordered to go to rehab, Winehouse went out partying.

Fielder-Civil is said to have asked Winehouse to pay the £30,000 fee for his stay in rehab, but the chart-topper is thought to have refused.

Winehouse's mother, 53, told Closer magazine: "What sort of husband doesn't tell his wife that he's being released? That says it all really, doesn't it? I don't know about Blake asking Amy for money, but it wouldn't surprise me. I'm glad she said no."

She said that while he was in jail, Fielder-Civil put pressure on his wife, who checked out of the London Clinic recently following treatment for a lung infection, phoning her three times a day.

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