According to quote machine Mitch - seen in this curiously telling picture - his only daughter has contracted emphysema as a result of her drug use. “‘The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,’ he was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. ‘The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid—she wouldn’t have been able to breathe.’ He added: ‘She’s got emphysema. With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes, her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She’s got 70 percent lung capacity.” He said there was no reason she could not perform Glastonbury next weekend. What about the life threatening illness? Might it not be a good idea to get as far away from the music biz and its temptations as possible, dad?  Yesterday Winehouse’s US rep scrambled to play down Dad’s diagnosis. “She is not diagnosed with full-blown emphysema, but instead has early signs of what could lead to emphysema,” Tracey Miller, her U.S.-based representative, told The Associated Press on Monday. What Musictoob wants to know is: what’s up with Mitch?

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