It’s being suggested in several UK papers today that Amy Winehouse’s untimely death this weekend was not due to overdose or alcohol poisoning, but because she stopped drinking. No, really. The Daily Mail says:

It is thought that Amy had been told to cut down on her drinking gradually, but her cold turkey approach to quitting the booze gave her frail body a shock it couldn’t handle.

A source close to the family told the paper: ‘Abstinence gave her body such a fright they thought it was eventually the cause of her death.’

Amy’s father Mitch said that Amy had beaten her battle with drink and drugs and she hadn’t drunk for three weeks and hadn’t touched drugs for years.

Mitch told mourners: ‘Three years ago, Amy conquered her drug dependency, the doctors said it was impossible but she really did it. She was trying hard to deal with her drinking and had just completed three weeks of abstinence.’

However it has been claimed that the singer was drinking gin and red bull drinks at the Roundhouse in Camden three days before her death.

The only way her death would be a tragedy instead of a stupid accident is if she actually died from not drinking. That’s the absolute LAST thing anybody would suspect. Look, I appreciate irony as much as the next girl, but I don’t think God has that sick a sense of humor.

Some celebrities who have died from excessive drug and alcohol abuse could have been saved if only they took drug and alcohol addiction counseling seriously.

Amy and her breast implants on vacation earlier this year:

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