Rolling Stones icon Ronnie Wood has revealed the advice he gave to the late, great Amy Winehouse, after the singer reportedly asked for his advice during her struggles22:52, 05 Jul 2026Ronnie Wood has revealed the advice he gave to Amy Winehouse. The late singer tragically died aged just 27 on July 23, 2011, at her home in Camden, North London.‌An inquest concluded that Winehouse, a five-time Grammy Award winner, died from accidental alcohol poisoning. Her death was ruled a "misadventure" after she had abstained from drinking for a period of time before she died.‌But in a new interview, The Rolling Stones icon, Ronnie, 79, has opened up about the advice he gave to Amy after she turned to him for help. In the wake of Amy's death, the Stones paid tribute to the late singer on their Foreign Tongues record with an interpretation of her 2007 Number 18 hit You Know I'm No Good.‌The guitarist said he was "sad" to see Amy's life tragically cut short. Speaking to The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, Ronnie said: "She would go: 'Oh, Ronnie, what am I going to do?' I said: 'Look, everyone knows you've got vodka in the water bottle. Get it together and get on stage.'"But if you could get her up there and she stayed there, it'd be great. I'm sad because she didn't do her full span. It was like saying goodbye to Billie Holiday again."‌After Amy famously performed with the band at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2007, Keith Richards expressed regret that he hadn't got to know the singer well enough.‌He told the outlet: "I was always sort of 'Well, I'm bound to meet her down the road', you expect things to happen, and unfortunately, no. But that's what records are for. I'm just very glad and honoured to have played with her at least once."Over the course of Amy's life, her struggles with alcohol and drugs were widely documented. Her father, Mitchel Winehouse, had pleaded with the Back to Black singer to turn her back on substances as her addiction took hold.Her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, had been cited as the cause of Amy's demons after he admitted introducing her to heroin in the 2000s. Speaking on The Jeremy Kyle Show in 2013, Blake said he had used heroin "three or four times" before he introduced Amy to the drug. He said: "I've admitted I was there when she had it first time, yeah it was my doing. I don't think she would have ever experienced it without me.‌"I had maybe had it three or four times and we were in a hotel in East London and for some reason I think I had about ten pounds of heroin with me which is something we used to do after a club. I was smoking it on foil and she said can I try some and I said… I might have put up a weak resistance – the fact is whatever I said she did end up having some."I have to be really sort of conscious about what I say – I don't want to feel like I'm shirking responsibility. The fact is what I'm saying is of course I regret it, not just because of the damage it's caused Amy and the loss of life, but the damage to her family but also to my family and also to me."But during an appearance on Paul C Brunson's We Need To Talk podcast, Blake claimed that Amy had already been experimenting with drugs. When Paul asked whether he encouraged the singer to take heroin, Blake responded: "No, there was no encouraging or not. It was a sense of, in the same way that if I said, I know this is going to sound strange to a lot of people, if I said to my friend, would you want a beer in the pub?‌"I'm not hoping that they fall into alcoholism... I wasn't thinking with any luck they'll become a drug addict. There was no destructive element to it. It was 'Do you want to try this?'" In the weeks before Amy's tragic death, the singer had been on tour, performing in Belgrade.But those closest to her, including best friend and former stylist, Naomi Parry, pleaded with those around Amy not to put her on stage. "I was the only person begging them not to put her on stage," she told The Times. Ms Parry, now 40, went on to add: "I couldn't even watch, it was unbearable. Inhumane. That was the catalyst for the binge that ended her. She was so broken by it."Winehouse is regarded as one of the most influential and iconic singers of the modern era, famed for her deep contralto range and her raw, deeply personal storytelling through her lyrics, often reflecting on her most personal moments. Her second record, Back to Black, is one of the best-selling albums in UK history and cemented her as a global icon prior to her death.Article continues belowFrank offers confidential advice about drugs and addiction (email frank@talktofrank.com, message 82111 or call 0300 123 6600) or the NHS has information about getting help.Like this story? For more of the latest showbiz news and gossip, follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads.