Boy George: Amy Winehouse “Has To Help Herself”

Boy George knows what it’s like to be a British singer with flamboyant hair, gaudy women’s clothing and too much make up. He also knows what it’s like to be in the throes of a massive drug addiction. So will Amy Winehouse accept the advice the Culture Clubber offered to Times Online?

When you’re hellbent on destroying yourself everyone else is powerless, especially the people who love you most. Until she decides she wants to change no one can do anything.

…[She should do] therapy, maybe. Rehab. NA is amazing: there are people from all walks of life. It brings you down to earth. When I first went I was really scathing: they mentioned God and I was like, ‘I’m out of here’. I was quiet at the beginning, but you open up. You have to help yourself.

George credits NA with helping him kick cocaine last year, following an arrest that had George picking up trash in Manhattan (the U.S. has denied the British star any work visas since). His new single, inspired by the experience, is titled “Yes, We Can.” Timely!

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