Amy Winehouse was a lost soul, says filmmaker

Filmmaker Daphne Barak has said that her friend Amy Winehouse was a "lost soul".

Barak directed the 2009 documentary Saving Amy, which was also the title of her book released the following year.

"She was a lost soul, trying to please everyone, especially her mum and dad who she loved so much," she said. "But they all desperately wanted for her to get well."

She added that she will remember Winehouse as "gracious, loving and always so anxious to do the right thing for other people, no matter how bad her own problems were".

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Barak added: "Amy Winehouse was a very complicated woman. The world will always remember her as a musical genius - that much is without doubt. But Amy's many other sides were so often overshadowed by her much publicised addictions.

"Not many people got the chance to see the real Amy: the Amy who always minded her manners (like her nana taught her); the caring Amy who would always put everyone else first; the Am who would remember the smallest details about the people she came into contact with."

Winehouse's parents Mitch and Janis spoke extensively with Barak about their daughter's struggles with drugs and alcohol while she was alive.

It has been claimed that Winehouse became secretly engaged to her boyfriend Reg Traviss weeks before her death.

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