Though only in her 20s, Winehouse reportedly suffered from emphysema as a result of smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine. Her family said Monday that reports their daughter had bought cocaine, ketamine and ecstasy hours before she died were "nonsense." The frail singer had been getting regular doctor checkups, the Sun said, most recently the night before her death. "At this stage no one knows how she died. "He called the emergency services straight away. "She was in her bedroom after saying she wanted to sleep and when went to wake her he found she wasn't breathing," Chris Goodman, her rep in Britain, told the Sun. Saturday, may have been dead for several hours before she was found by security guard Andrew Morris in her home that afternoon. Winehouse, who'd last spoken to members of her team around 10 a.m. Many of the offerings expressed the same sentiment: "What a waste."
The singer's mother, Janis, was in tears as she examined the flowers, candles, vodka bottles, flags, drawings and handwritten cards left by neighbors, fans and well-wishers. "We're devastated and I'm speechless, but thanks for coming." "I can't tell you what this means to us," father Mitch Winehouse told fans gathered Monday outside her home in London's Camden district. An autopsy on the body of Amy Winehouse revealed no cause of death Monday for the 27-year-old retro-soul singer, leaving fans and family to wait for the results of toxicology tests due in two to four weeks.Ī funeral for Winehouse, who was Jewish, was likely to be held Tuesday or Wednesday.