Amy Winehouse to release new 'comeback' album after years of turmoil, report says

07/15/2010 by Corinne Heller

Amy Winehouse reportedly plans to release her third album in January at the latest, following at least three years of battling alcohol and drug addiction, assault charges, a messy divorce and a series of health scares.

Speaking to the UK Metro newspaper at the recent premiere of boyfriend Reg Traviss' new film Psychosis, Winehouse said the new record would "be six months at the most."

"Its going to be very much the same as my second album, where theres a lot of jukebox stuff and the songs that are... just jukebox, really," she said. "I just cant wait to have some new songs on stage, really."

The 26-year-old British singer's 2006 album Back to Black garnered five Grammys and Winehouse, who spurred the internationally-successful and what would become ironic hit "Rehab" and her own Halloween costumes due to the beehive she often sports, appeared to have been on the fast-track to success.

But throughout the past few years, Winehouse has gradually lost weight, has appeared drunk at concerts, has been involved in violent confrontations at clubs and other venues. Winehouse pleaded guilty in January on charges of assault of a theater manager and was given a two year conditional discharge and a fine.

Photographs of herself covered in scratches on her arms have appeared in newspapers around the world and celebrity photographers in her native London had occasionally encountered her wandering the streets in the early hours of the morning while appearing disheveled.

Winehouse was rushed to the hospital in 2007 for what she later said was a drug overdose. She checked into a rehab clinic in January 2008 after the release of a video that allegedly showed her smoking crack cocaine. Her father said later that year that Winehouse, a cigarette chain smoker, had developed the lung condition emphysema.

She and Blake Fielder-Civil divorced in 2009 after two years of marriage, although the two were photographed going to a club together in April.