Nearly two years after her death, Janis Winehouse admits her daughter always seemed destined for a short life.
"When I think Amy would have been 30 this year, it doesn't feel right," the 58-year-old matriarch told UK newspaper The Sun.
"I'm not saying I always foresaw this but I wasn't surprised," she continued.
"I couldn't see Amy as an older person. She was this young girl who exploded into the world like a firecracker and then it was, 'OK, I'm done - I'm off'. Amy was never meant to be 30."
Her mother recalls the singer as a strong-willed young woman even at an early age.
She's still not sure if she can pinpoint the moment where things took a turn for the worse.
"I don't believe there was any one point where you'd say, 'This is where things started to go wrong for Amy'," she explained.
"It was just the life she led and I was no match for her."
- Cover Media
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