Marisa Abela Doesn’t See Amy Winehouse as a Victim

glamour.com:

starring Marisa Abela was her shoes. The image of the real Winehouse walking down the streets of London in those tiny, flimsy ballet slippers, staring mournfully at the paparazzi that harassed her until her death, is one of those indelible moments from ’00s pop culture that are forever imprinted on my brain.

I don’t think there’s a former Perez Hilton reader alive who could watch Abela, playing Amy, strut down the street in a facsimile of those same shoes and not feel a sad queasiness of guilt for participating in the singer’s trauma, no matter if it was just through the screen.During her lifetime Amy Winehouse was a controversial figure, one who it seems the mainstream media didn’t know what to do with.

To them it felt incongruous that someone who could pen the soulful, beautiful songs on her debut album Frank and the multi-Grammy-winning breakthrough Back to Black could also be, well, a complicated person, struggling with demons and addictions.

After she became well-known for her music, Winehouse began to be relentlessly stalked by the tabloids, who called her cruel names and mocked her viciously.