In-laws of troubled singer Winehouse call for boycott

Relatives of British singer Amy Winehouse are voicing concern about the state of the hit recording artist's health.

The singer's father-in-law, Giles Fielder-Civil, said he believed that Winehouse and his son Blake were in "abject denial" about their drug problems.

"I think they believe they are recreational users of drugs and they are in control," Fielder-Civil said in a radio interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. "Clearly they are addicts."

Fielder-Civil, who also said he feels the couple's addictions are putting their lives in danger, has called on Winehouse fans to boycott her music as a message "that her addiction and her behaviour are not acceptable."

The singer's father, however, heard the interview and responded immediately, saying a boycott would be fruitless.

"It won't send any message to Amy at all, unfortunately. If I thought it would, it would be a great idea," Mitch Winehouse told the BBC.

"There's only one way out of this, and anyone with drug experience will tell you, the only way out is not sectioning them, not locking them up. At some point they are going to reach rock bottom, and at that point they will say, 'I don't want to do that any more.'"

Winehouse has been riding the wave of success brought about by her sophomore album, Back to Black, which spawned the massive reportedly autobiographical hit Rehab.

The soulful 23-year-old singer, known for her hard-partying ways, married Blake Fielder-Civil in a surprise, low-key ceremony in Florida in May.

British press recently published photographs of the couple in which the two were seen scratched, somewhat bloodied and bruised.

"As a parent it was sickening worse than sickening, I wanted to die," Mitch Winehouse said about seeing the pictures of his daughter and son-in-law.

"I thought that here are two people that are completely out of control."

Winehouse, who is nominated for a host of upcoming musical awards, recently postponed a series of U.S. and Canadian appearances "to address her health."