Despite rumors that have been flying, it seems Amy Winehouse does NOT have tuberculosis. What she does have, though, is emphysema.

Emphysema is a disease of the lungs that is caused by excessive exposure to toxic chemicals. Umm, such as crack, perhaps? Her father is even speaking out, saying that Amy is going to die if she keeps up what she’s doing.

It’s sad, really, that she could actually hit number one music status and still be such a loser. She should focus on her, perhaps, umm, talents.

Amy Winehouse has got a lot of explaining to do to her husband if he gets wind of this. The singer was seen leaving her London home on Friday with what looked like a hickey on her neck. With her husband still in jail, we’re sure it wasn’t from him. That’s not the only mess she got herself into though. Wino performed at the ‘Rock in Rio’ event in Portugal on Friday night and she was a total mess. She even said so herself. It’s a good thing they canceled the US summer tour she had planned. It’s enough that she makes a mess of herself in the UK.

Amy Winehouse went shopping at 4am this morning, just hours after being arrested on drugs charges. The singer chatted to photographers as she left her North London home, asking for suggestions for a new tattoo.

Wearing a bandana with her husband’s name written on it, she headed for a nearby petrol station to pick up drinks and magazines and seemed unconcerned about events from earlier in the day.

Amy was arrested yesterday following an appointment at an East London police station over drugs offenses. The charges relate to video footage of the singer allegedly taking crack cocaine in January this year.

Amy, who reportedly sobbed uncontrollably as she was questioned for almost 10 hours, left the police station at 10.30pm last night. She was released on bail to reappear later this month.

Amy’s spokesperson said: “Amy voluntarily attended a London police station today by appointment. She was arrested in order to be interviewed and is cooperating fully with inquiries. The interview relates to a video handed to police earlier this year.”

A Scotland Yard spokesperson added: “Around 1pm yesterday a 24-year-old woman from the Camden area attended a London police station by arrangement and was arrested in connection with the alleged possession of a controlled drug. She remains in custody. This is in connection with an investigation connected to footage passed to the Metropolitan Police on January 22.”

In the video footage reportedly taken at the star’s East London home, the singer also appeared to snort “highly concentrated” powdered ecstasy and cocaine and swallow six Valium pills. Amy’s arrest follows a caution last month for an alleged assault in a pub near her home.

Amy Wienhouse is expected to appear in a Norwegian courtroom this week. The singer has to show up in court in Bergen on Friday to contest her drug arrest. Wino was arrested in Norway last year on marijuana charges which is the alleged reason why she was initially denied entry to the US.

On the bright side of things, Amy is still doing well. Her CD ‘Back to Black’ has benefited from a huge sales increase following this past week’s Brit Awards. It’s actually expected to sail back to the top spot of the charts! Congratulations Amy! Don’t let anything bring you down.

No it’s not another pun leading into a horrific story relating to Amy Winehouse and crack cocaine…for once. It is actually good news. It’s not often I get to put the two things in the same sentence but yes, I can actually report something good about Amy Winehouse…probably for the first time in months.

It seems that the troubled singer is slowly beginning to win her battle with drugs. The Back to Black star has spent four days in rehab, where she is ‘delighting’ doctors with her progress; especially as she hasn’t even tried to do a runner. For the first time it actually looks like Amy is making an effort to sort herself out.

A relieved close family friend said last night: “Although Amy is still taking each day at a time she has done the hardest thing in the world by going into rehab. She has been ill and is withdrawing but at least she is sticking with it as she detoxes. With her family’s support we are hopeful that there is finally light at the end of the tunnel as she weans herself off drugs. She will stay in rehab for as long as it takes even if it is three or four weeks. Nobody is saying it will be easy, but things are looking good at the moment and doctors are encouraged.”

Watch this space to find out if the rehab will stick…

As if she wasn’t ugly enough….

Amy Winehouse is no longer sporting her famous jet black beehive. Instead, she’s opted for a bleached blonde look. Umm, pretty?

Reese Witherspoon needs to teach her a thing or two about how to make the blonde thing work for you.

After Amy Winehouse’s return to London yesterday we were all prepared for the end of the peace and quiet experienced over the festive period while she was in the Caribbean.

And it looks like the singer has wasted no time in picking up where she left off. Following her bizarre change of clothes at the airport, which involved her stripping down to her bra in Heathrow, Amy then headed straight off to a party to celebrate the birthday of pal Tyler James.

However the holiday could have changed her even just a little bit. She was incredibly spotted eating at the party, which almost never happens. And according to producer pal Mark Ronson; Amy wants to begin recording her new album as soon as possible.

He said: “We have been talking about it and I know she really wants to start recording. She’s got so many songs in her.”

After Blake’s downfall last week where he proved positive in a Class A drug test, wife Amy Winehouse has been banned from any visits involving physical contact. The only way the troubled singer can visit her hubby is from behind a glass screen.

Amy, 24, is known to hide drugs in her bird’s-nest hairdo when on stage. She has not visited Fielder-Civil since he failed the random drugs test. A pal said: “She’s paranoid and shaking every time she goes there and has decided to give it a miss for a while.”

Between being suspected of bribery to free hubby, and threatened with kidnap by hubby’s enemies, and now maybe even being thought to smuggle in drugs to hubby; Amy is not having the best of years. Maybe the New Year will improve things…