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Wednesday - August 29, 2007 by Anthony Roberts Soul sensation
Amy Winehouse's father-in-law is encouraging fans to stop buying the singer's records in an effort to force her to get help for what he describes as a drug addiction.

As previously reported by SOHH, the British singer recently postponed her scheduled North American tour until 2008 amidst rumors that she has had to check into a rehabilitation facility.

"Due to the rigors involved in touring, Amy Winehouse has been advised to postpone her upcoming September U.S. and Canadian tour dates," said a statement issued by the singer's American record label, Universal.

Now, according to the Associated Press, the troubled singer's father-in-law is calling for fans to cease purchasing her records in protest, an action that he hopes will force Winehouse to get help and demonstrate to her that "her addiction and her behavior are not acceptable."

Giles Fielder-Civil, father of Winehouse's newly wed husband Blake Fielder-Civil, admitted that he believes that the couple had used cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin and were in "abject denial" about their problem.

"I think they believe they are recreational users of drugs and they are in control," Fielder-Civil told British Broadcasting Corp. radio Tuesday. "Clearly they are addicts. Perhaps it is time to stop buying records. It's a possibility, to send that message."

But Winehouse's father, Mitch Winehouse, feels that a boycott of his daughter's records will do little to no good at all.

"It's all clutching at straws," he told the BBC. "There's only one way out of this, and anybody with any drug experience will tell you... that the only way out of this 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, 'Listen, I don't want to do this anymore.'"

Fielder-Civil feels that Winehouse's record label, Island Records, isn't doing enough to help the singer and thinks they should be taking more of a "pro-active" approach in "helping the couple to get better."

Island Records refutes those claims saying, "[We've done] everything we can to help with Amy's personal problems over the past few weeks."

"She has our full support professionally, emotionally and financially," the label said in a statement. "We've advised her to take complete rest during this difficult period and have put all her promotional commitments on hold."