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How is Blake Fielder-Civil, anyway?

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Blake, Amy Winehouse's great love, is seen as the big bad behind Amy. He is the man who pushed her to use hard drugs, and their tumultuous relationship sent her spiralling towards the end of her life. With the release of the biopic ‘Amy’, the searchlight is once again on Blake Fielder (he has shaken off the Civil part of his surname because of his bad relationship with his stepfather). Something he does not seem to mind very much, as Blake is willing to talk to the press and has also met with the actor portraying his character.

The low point: a newspaper paid him to visit Amy's grave

How is Blake doing now?
Well, still tumultuous, with occasional rehabs and intense relationships. It's not that he lives in a terraced house with a raked garden. He has two children: Lola and Jack. Jack was born during a ‘break’ with Amy and has a mother whom Blake met in rehab. She also always thought he would go back to Amy, his great love. Blake lives in Leeds in a two-bedroom flat.

Very gilt-edged is not Blake Fielder's life. He also lost his brother to drugs at the age of 27, in a £40-a-night hostel. His addiction drove Blake to do ugly things. The low point, he himself thought, was when he got paid by a newspaper to visit Amy's grave, after which they sent a photographer there. Also a lesser moment: he demanded a million pounds from the proceeds of Amy's estate because he said he had been married to her for six years. This was after Blake had already received £250,000 as redemption from Amy's parents. The relationship may have had a span of six years, but that was a time with lots of break-ups, jail time and other women in between.

Yet
Jack O'Connell, the actor who plays Blake in the biopic, says he felt a genuine love for Amy from Blake. And Blake's statement that Amy was a spiky person who would have encountered the darker side of life even without him, I believe that too. That was what made her so special, Blake said. Blake's tattoos tell a lot. He tattooed a tear, just like Amy did while in prison, and also the image of Amy holding a red balloon in her hand and crying. Also, this sentence reads: ‘Too fast to live, too young to die’. And that phrase, it captures everything.