AMY WINEHOUSE - AMY WINEHOUSE BEGINS REHEARSALS AFTER HOSPITAL EXIT

AMY WINEHOUSE BEGINS REHEARSALS AFTER HOSPITAL EXIT

Amy Winehouse has commenced rehearsals for her scheduled summer shows despite being hospitalised with traces of emphysema.

The troubled singer was taken to the London Clinic in Marylebone last week and it was claimed yesterday that she is suffering from early stage emphysema.

But according to her spokesman, Winehouse's father Mitch had exaggerated the severity of his daughter's condition and it "looks likely" she will fulfill her commitments to perform at Glastonbury Festival and the Nelson Mandela charity concert.

Mitch had told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "She's got emphysema. 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."

The following day he told BBC Radio 1 there were merely "traces" of the lung disease and said the 24-year-old was "flourishing" in response to treatment.

And Tracey Miller, the Back to Black star's US representative, has dismissed Mitch's prognosis.

"She is not diagnosed with full-blown emphysema, but instead has early signs of what could lead to emphysema," she told the Associated Press news agency on Monday.

Winehouse is scheduled to appear at the concert marking Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday on Friday June 27th and at Glastonbury on June 28th.