'It was like it was a sunny day and a dark cloud appeared': Amy Winehouse's goddaughter Dionne Bromfield reveals the moment she found out the singer had died - 15 minutes before she was due on stage
Amy Winehouse's beloved goddaughter Dionne Bromfield revealed the moment she found out the iconic singer had died a decade ago.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Friday, Dionne, 25, discussed her godmother's life and the impact she had on her before touching upon how she found out about her death.
Dionne, who was only 15 at the time, revealed the news was broken to her 15 minutes before she was due to go on stage at a festival in Wales and described the feeling as: 'Its like if it was a sunny day and a dark cloud all of a sudden appeared.'
Heartbreaking: Amy Winehouse's goddaughter Dionne Bromfield revealed the moment she found out the singer had died - she appeared on Good Morning Britain on Friday (pictured)
Dionne and her team had poor phone service at the festival and were 'out of the loop for quite a while' when it was announced Amy had died at her home in Camden on July 23, 2011, from alcohol poisoning.
Discussing the devastating moment she was told, Dionne said: 'I was in the dressing room with her PA, who I was also working with me at the time.
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'There was just the two of us in the dressing room and he looked really grim and I said "Is everything ok?" and he just burst into tears and for some reason I don't know why but I just turned round to him and said "Is it Amy?" and he said "Yeah".
'It went in one ear and out the other and you kind of go into auto-pilot for some reason.'
Important influence: Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Friday, Dionne, 25, discussed her godmother's life and the impact she had on her (pictured together in 2008)
Sad: Touching upon the moment she found out, Dionne said: 'It went in one ear and out the other and you kind of go into auto-pilot for some reason.'
It comes as Dionne prepares to air her new MTV documentary Amy Winehouse & Me: Dionne's Story in which she will be discussing her close relationship with the icon.
Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Dionne said: 'I knew there was a side to Amy that I just didn't feel like people really knew. So, I really wanted people to see the Amy I love so dearly. I felt like doing a documentary would be the best way and doing it from my perspective would be even better.'
Dionne said she hopes the documentary will show people what Amy was really like, describing her as a 'motherly figure'.
She explained: 'I think I've lost quite a heavy influence in my life. I mean, my mum's an amazing mum anyway but my relationship with Amy, it was kind of like I had a sister and a mother.'
Dionne said Amy's passing caused her to bottle up her feelings.
Different perspective: It comes as Dionne prepares to air her new MTV documentary Amy Winehouse & Me: Dionne's Story in which she will be discussing her close relationship with the icon (pictured in 2008)
She added: 'I miss having off-record conversations and just really on a like a public level and career wise, just having that person who really understands it. I miss having that mentorship really.'
Dionne said she feels more comfortable talking about Amy now, describing herself as 'very reserved' in the past.
Amy's musical legacy is reportedly still making over £1million per year for her family.
According to The Sun, the singer's parents Mitch and Janis have three companies that handle income from her hugely successful recording career.
The first, called Openville Ltd, has almost £1million in the bank and says it deals with 'artistic creation'.
Career: Amy's musical legacy is reportedly still making over £1million per year for her family (pictured with her parents Janis and Mitch in 2008)
In the most recent accounts for the business year ending March 2020, the company had £969,598 in the bank and still had £874,451 after costs were deducted.
A second company called MW Records Ltd was set up in 2012, to 'support activities to performing arts' and has £460,362 to its name.
The third company, Portcrown Ltd, has £10,000 in the bank with both of Amy's parents listed as directors.
The three companies had combined assets of £1,344,813, showing the enduring popularity of Amy's music.
MailOnline contacted representatives for Mitch Winehouse for comment at the time.
Amy soared to fame upon the release of Frank in 2003, as she gained both critical and commercial success with the debut as her jazz-inspired vocals won fans all over before her second album Back to Black's introduction three years later.
In a heartbreaking turn of fate, the London-born icon's dazzling career was plighted by drink and drug addiction.
As she ascended higher on the fame ladder she discovered her demons - in drink, drugs and also eating disorders, which her brother Alex insists contributed to her death.
In 2011, an inquest gave a verdict of misadventure after finding that she had 416mg of alcohol per decilitre in her blood.
A second inquest in 2013 confirmed that she died of accidental alcohol poisoning.
Career: Amy soared to fame upon the release of Frank in 2003, as she gained both critical and commercial success with the debut as her jazz-inspired vocals won fans all over before her second album Back To Black's introduction three years later (pictured in 2007)
This is more than five times the legal drink-drive limit and enough to cause her to become comatose and depress her respiratory system.
In a June 2013 interview, her brother Alex said he believed her eating disorder, and the consequent physical weakness, was the primary cause of her death.
He said: 'She suffered from bulimia very badly. That's not, like, a revelation – you knew just by looking at her...
'She would have died eventually, the way she was going, but what really killed her was the bulimia... I think that it left her weaker and more susceptible. Had she not had an eating disorder, she would have been physically stronger.'
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Amy Winehouse & Me: Dionne's Story premieres on MTV UK on Monday July 26 at 10pm.
Tragedy: An inquest in 2013 confirmed that she died of accidental alcohol poisoning (pictured at Glastonbury in 2007)
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