AMY WINEHOUSE’s pop star goddaughter DIONNE BROMFIELD was kept in the dark about the star’s death last month (Jul11) as she was minutes away from stepping onstage to perform when the news broke.
The 15 year old, who is signed to the late singer’s Lioness Records imprint, was preparing to play at a festival in Pontypridd, Wales on 23 July (11) when she felt the atmosphere change in the dressing room.
She found out Winehouse had passed away and that her mum and entourage had tried to keep the tragedy secret until she finished her gig.
But Bromfield insists she felt compelled to carry on with the show because it’s what her mentor would have wanted.
She tells BBC DJ Scott Mills, "I was in my dressing room 15 minutes before I was due onstage. My mum found out about an hour before but she didn’t tell me as I was about to perform and there have been so many hoaxes. No one wanted to believe it.
"Someone was doing my hair and everyone was kind of, do you know when people are sniffing and about to cry and you could just tell? "The whole atmosphere went from being happy to everyone just quiet, so I thought, ‘OK, something’s going on’, and I got someone’s iPad and looked on Google. Then I said, ‘It’s true, isn’t it?’ "I didn’t have a chance to think, my mind went blank, at first I was thinking, ‘It’s not true,’ because it’s happened two times before, you think it’s just some sick rumour, you’re waiting for someone to say it’s not true.
"I was thinking, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to perform’ and people were saying, ‘Don’t do it, if you don’t want to do it,’ no one was pressurising me, but I knew, Amy would want me to do it, she was one of my biggest fans, I didn’t want to be sitting there, crying. I thought, ‘Amy loved to see me perform, do it for Amy.’"
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