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"Janis Winehouse has spoken out about saying &amp;quot;goodbye&amp;quot; to her daughter Amy. She said that she made sure the 27-year-old &amp;#039;Rehab&amp;#039; singer, who was found dead at her Camden home in July, looked &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot; in her favourite yellow dress and trademark beehive wig before her funeral took place. Janis told the Sunday Mirror: &amp;quot;It was an act of love. She went out looking like the \u00C2\u00ADsuperstar the whole world fell in love with.  &amp;quot;When I looked at Amy&amp;#039;s body, that it dawned on me she&amp;#039;d gone. She looked \u00C2\u00ADpeaceful, at rest, beautiful. It was my moment of final acceptance. The time to say goodbye. It was Amy&amp;#039;s curtain call. As a family we&amp;#039;d decided Amy&amp;#039;s funeral should be a party - a celebration of her amazing life.&amp;quot; Janis said that she was &amp;quot;stunned&amp;quot; and in &amp;quot;denial&amp;quot; when she first found out about Amy&amp;#039;s death, saying: &amp;quot;It wasn&amp;#039;t real. That is why I had to go and see Amy.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Amy Winehouse was responsible for her own death&amp;#039;, says dad Mitch &amp;gt; Amy Winehouse&amp;#039;s father: &amp;#039;I hoped her death was a practical joke&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Amy Winehouse&amp;#039;s father Mitch: &amp;#039;Extreme detox caused her death&amp;#039; She also revealed that she was &amp;quot;carried away on a wave of emotion&amp;quot; with the &amp;quot;warmth&amp;quot; from friends and family and found it &amp;quot;very touching&amp;quot; that the singer&amp;#039;s fans camped out outside her home. &amp;quot;I realised I was not \u00C2\u00ADgrieving alone,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;It was comforting.&amp;quot; Janis said that she finds it &amp;quot;too painful to hear Amy&amp;#039;s music&amp;quot;, adding: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;ve been lots of tears. The bad days are very bad. There are bits of time when it just gets me. Often it&amp;#039;s at night. It will hit me... this is it, this is reality.&amp;quot;  The 55-year-old insisted that she did &amp;quot;absolutely everything&amp;quot; she could to help Amy overcome her drug addiction and still believes that she was drug-free &amp;quot;from November 2008 to the day she died&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Up until then she&amp;#039;d been a nightmare,&amp;quot; Janis said. &amp;quot;But Amy was working really hard to turn her life around. Part of me feels comfort that she&amp;#039;s no longer in pain.&amp;quot; Watch Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Body &amp;amp; Soul&amp;#039; video, released to mark the launch of her Foundation, below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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