You had people who had praised her and now they were murdering her,” says Darcus Beese, president of Island Records and Winehouse’s former A&R man.
One disturbing sequence in the film shows Winehouse as a punchline for talk-show hosts. She was hounded not only by paparazzi - the famously aggressive British tabloids painstakingly tracked her movements around her London home - but by talking heads insensitive to addiction and mental-health issues. In Winehouse’s story, many of the perils of 21st-century fame collide.
