Amy Winehouse diagnosis: Emphysema from crack

By Stone Martindale Jun 22, 2008, 22:36 GMT

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Amy Winehouse is very sick, and is suffering the early stages of emphysema, her father says.

"With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up," Mitch Winehouse tells the Sunday Mirror in the U.K.

"There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 percent lung capacity."

The singer was rushed to the hospital June 16 after fainting in her London home.

Tests have eliminated other diseases like TB, but her father says his daughter has other serious health problems.

"When we got to the hospital a room was ready," Mitch Winehouse tells the newspaper. "Several doctors came in and checked to make sure she didn't need any emergency treatment. They put her on a drip straight away because she was dehydrated. She said, 'Don't worry about me, dad. I know I've got to stop taking drugs now.'"

Winehouse was on a bender for  48 hours before going to the hospital, her father says. Once admitted, Amy "curled up in bed" and slept for three straight days, he says.

"She's got emphysema," he says. "It's in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe."