LONDON — Singer Amy Winehouse is certainly giving Britney Spears a run for her money when it comes to filling tabloids with juicy material.
A shocking new video of Winehouse apparently smoking a crack pipe is now making the rounds. In the secretly-filmed tape, the troubled star is seen wandering around a party in her home in East London in a dazed and confused state. She is also heard telling friends who are planning to go out, that she would be "useless" to them because she has just taken six valium to "bring myself down."
The grainy video, which was reportedly shot at a party last Friday at the singer's East London home, was posted on the Web site of British tabloid The Sun, the same pub that broke the Kate Moss cocaine-snorting scandal.
The Sun claims the 24-year-old Winehouse "took hit after hit of the deadly drug after a 19-minute binge in which she snorted powdered ecstasy and cocaine" before making an erratic appearance at her husband Blake Fielder-Civil's court hearing last Friday.
At one point during the video, the skeletal singer accuses one of the guests of letting her pet cat escape from the quiet room into the party.
She is heard mumbling: "If I was that cat, I'd leave on my own accord. I'd call a cab. It ain't right. This ain't Toys R Us. They took my cat."
Reps for the singer have yet to comment.
Winehouse has been nominated for six Grammys, considered the greatest accolades in the music industry, in all four of the top categories. The ceremony, which is just weeks away, will be held in Los Angeles on February 10. Whether the singer will be in attendance remains to be seen.
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