Mum: I don't recognise Winehouse

Amy Winehouse's mother no longer recognises her daughter's character because of her drug use.

Janis told First magazine about how the singer's hard drug habit had seriously affected her.

"Amy is playing Russian roulette with her health and musical gift," she explained. "She's lost herself. We're not talking about my Amy. It's not someone I recognise. She has become her own stage creation.

"I knew she was smoking marijuana but not that she was doing class A drugs until she collapsed. She won't stop until she sees the point of stopping. When I saw her afterwards, I did not tell her to clean up, there was no point."

Janis said she knew telling her daughter to stop would not work: "I know all about class A drugs. I understand the process where the brain shuts out everything except the drugs. Talking to her about it won't make any difference."