(Image Source: The Telegraph)

BY LOGAN TITTLE

New reports say—it was a shot at sobriety that led to the death of singer Amy Winehouse.

The singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper—a drug was present in his daughter’s system when she died on July 23rd—but it wasn’t illegal.

WINEHOUSE: “...everybody knows I’ve been banging on about the fact she hadn’t taken drugs for 3 years. Everyone thought I was in denial—I wasn’t in denial. She hadn’t taken drugs. She’d been clean of drugs for three years—around about three years.”

COOPER: “What about prescription medication?”

WINEHOUSE: “There were no drugs in her system—at all.”

COOPER: “Mitch, you wanted to correct something you had said earlier that there was a prescription drug that she was using.”

WINEHOUSE: “Yes, which I had forgotten, she was prescribed Librium which is a normal drug given to people who are detoxing and it kind of decreases the chances of having seizures…”

(video source: TMZ)

In a fatal coincidence —it was a drug for detoxing that lead to his daughter’s death.

The New York Daily News explains—

“Amy Winehouse's father says he believes she died after suffering a seizure related to alcohol detoxification and ‘there was nobody there to rescue her.’”

A source close to the family told International Business Times quote- “A theory is that—her body just couldn’t cope with the quick withdrawal.”

(video source: CTV News)

This-- after a much-anticipated toxicology report confirmed Winehouse was drug free at the time of her death.

“When she died on July 23, it was widely assumed that substance abuse was the root cause. However, toxicology results from an autopsy released by the family late last month showed that no illegal substances were present, though there was evidence of some alcohol, although whether it contributed to her death was not made clear.”

(source: Telegraph)

Finally, a Gather blogger says-- this is just further proof-- those who chalked her death up to drug abuse-- are off the mark.

“It's a shame that so many rumors are still circulating about the drug problems this woman battled. It was obvious that she was troubled, but it's far more tragic that she died in the midst of trying to turn her life around and change. Her death serves as a lesson to everyone who has partaken in overindulgence at one time or another.”