In the BBC special “One Life: Rock Star Parents” Mitch Winehouse confesses to a longtime affair he had with a co-worker and the effect it had on Amy. He told Us Weekly the affair began just after Amy was born and that it was an open secret in their house. “The children used to call Jane ‘Daddy’s work wife,’” he says. Can you imagine?
Amy was 10 years old when her dad left her mum and their family to marry his girlfriend: “There was not really a negative response from Amy, but she definitely became a lot more independent. Perhaps deep down she felt her parents were splitting up, she could not rely on them to stay together and that it was about time she learned to look after herself.”
He went on to add: “It is easy for me to say it is my fault, and that had I been a better parent, this would not have happened,” he says. “But who knows whether it would or not?”