Like her dad, Amy Winehouse has said she thought she would die when she accidentally overdosed on drugs in August.

She told German magazine Stern recently: “I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life, brought me into the hospital. Often I don’t know what I do. Then the next day the memory returns. Blake told me later what had happened and then I was engulfed in shame.”

“Recently I saw a picture of when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognise myself.”

“I believe I live through pain. If you suffer for something, it means to me that it is not unimportant.”

She added that she’s battled with depression since she was a teenager: “Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. I have taken pills for depression but they slowed me down. I believe there are lots of people who have these mood changes.”

“I just have this great good luck to have found this outlet - my music.”