The former husband of tragic pop icon says he's not responsible for her untimely death - despite conceding he had a 'part to play' in her desperate battle with drug addiction.
Winehouse had been in and out of treatment for drug and alcohol dependency and struggled with withdrawal and anxiety before she was found dead at her Camden home in 2011, aged just 27.
Two inquests determined the singer's blood-alcohol content was five times over the legal drink-drive limit, with her cause of death subsequently recorded as accidental by way of alcohol poisoning.
Addressing the tragedy during the latest instalment of Paul C. Brunson's We Need To Talk podcast, Blake Fielder-Civil, 43, refuted the firmly held belief that Winehouse's battle with substance and alcohol abuse began when they embarked on a relationship.
'My stance now is that I know a lot of people, especially people reading media twenty years ago would have an idea that Amy's passing is my responsibility,' he said.
'As I've always said - I never shirk from any responsibility. If I've done something, I'll put my hand up to it, but I'm okay. I'm not okay but I've made my peace with... yeah, I had a part to play.'
The former husband of tragic pop icon Amy Winehouse says he holds no responsibility for her untimely death - despite conceding he had a 'part to play' in her battle with drug addiction
Fielder-Civil, a former video production assistant, exchanged vows with Winehouse on Miami beach in 2007 following a whirlwind romance than began with a chance meeting in a Camden pub.
Their tumultuous, co-dependent relationship would later be documented by the singer on her Grammy award winning second - and tragically final - album, Back To Black.
The couple's divorce came two years before Winehouse was , and Fielder-Civil believes the singer was partly responsible for her death.
'Amy herself had agency, and that is in no way at all disrespecting her by saying that, but Amy did what she wanted to do and even knowing the drinking had started to hurt her, she carried on,' he said.
Winehouse, who is buried with her grandmother Cynthia Levy, is said to have been subject to nine interventions led by parents about her boozy lifestyle.
Her father Mitch had battled to get his beloved daughter to abandon the dangerous drug-fuelled life which was killing her, even as she enjoyed extraordinary success.
And Fielder-Civil had long been cited as the cause of her problems after admitting he introduced her to heroin in the mid-2000s.
But he insists Winehouse was already experimenting with drugs, specifically cocaine, before they met.
'I need to defend myself slightly on things, you know it's not fair to the people who love me to think untruths,' he told Brunson. 'Amy had started trying cocaine with their ex-partner.
'There are pictures of Amy at the BRITs with, you know, as they do ‘powder up the nose’, you know, and, yeah, it was known. It was known that Amy had experimented with drugs and it was nothing to do with me.
'The heroin was something as I said that I tried, let's say ten times, smoked it over a period of six months with some friends.
'That's where I was at with that. But yeah, the first time she did it was with me and it was probably my sixth time.'
Blake Fielder-Civil exchanged vows with Winehouse on Miami beach in May 2007 following a whirlwind romance than began with a chance meeting in a Camden pub (pictured in June '07)
The couple's divorce came two years before Winehouse was found unresponsive at her north London, and Fielder-Civil believes the singer was partly responsible for her death
While his own downward spiral into addiction started at the same time as Winehouse, Fielder-Civil maintains he never encouraged the singer to take it.
'No, there was no encouraging or not,' he insisted. '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?"
'Amy never, ever got to a stage of IV drug use of intravenous injecting. I did.
'I would say my time post Amy's passing especially was about as miserable and as full on that any drug addict could get.'
Fielder-Civil was locked up at HMP Leeds, seeing out a 32 month prison sentence for domestic burglary and firearm offenses when staff informed him of her passing.
Tragically, the former couple had spoken just days earlier and were making tentative plans to 'reconcile' shortly before her death.
He recalled: 'The week Amy passed, I was in jail, unfortunately.We were still very much talking about the possibility of reconciling again.
'So I would say the definitive moment I realised that wasn’t gonna happen was when I got told that she'd passed away is when I knew that's not me saying, oh, if Amy's alive now, we'd be together, I'm not saying that, I have a life now I'm in love, happy.
'However, I have no qualms about saying that, that we would still be in each other's lives now.'
Fielder-Civil says he prayed every night that Winehouse would still be alive following his release from prison, because he 'had this massive fear that something's going to happen to her if I'm not about.'
'So when they told me that [she was dead], my first thought was, this is my worst nightmare, it's not true. So as my brain was grasping at it'll be a hoax.'
Fielder-Civil was locked up at HMP Leeds, seeing out a 32 month prison sentence for domestic burglary and firearm offenses when staff informed him of her passing
He added: 'You know, these things happen and then they showed me a BBC link, and obviously I was more, I was more conscious at that point that this had happened, but my head was swimming straight away.
'And yeah, obviously I held it together. You can't be crying walking down the wings in a jail. I had to wait until I got into my cell.
'My cellmate at the time was a really solid guy. He'd seen it on the news and gave me a hug straight away. I burst into tears. He started crying too. So it’s strange I got held up by, you know, as being supported and held up by somebody I'd known from a matter of weeks.
'That was the only comfort I had at that moment for losing this massive, huge part of my life, a big part of my heart. Somebody I was not going to see again or hear again or anything again. It was too much.'
The full interview is available to watch on the latest instalment of Paul C. Brunson's We Need To Talk podcast, out now on YouTube.
