AMY WINEHOUSE - WINEHOUSE'S MOTHER: 'AMY IS ON SPEARS' PATH'

WINEHOUSE'S MOTHER: 'AMY IS ON SPEARS' PATH'

AMY WINEHOUSE's mother is convinced her daughter is on the same path as troubled star BRITNEY SPEARS - and has already prepared herself for the troubled singer's impending death. The Back To Black hitmaker singer checked into a London rehab facility on Thursday (24Jan08) - just six days after video footage of her apparently smoking crack in a shocking drugs binge surfaced. But Janis Winehouse fears it may already be too late to help the 24-year-old star. She tells British newspaper the Sunday Mirror, "I've known for a long time that my daughter has problems. But seeing it on screen rammed it home. I realise my daughter could be dead within the year. We're watching her kill herself, slowly. "I've already come to terms with her dead. I've steeled myself to ask her what ground she wants to be buried in, which cemetery. Because the drugs will get her if she stays on this road. "She's invited me to the Grammy awards next month, but part of me thinks she won't be alive by then. I look at Heath Ledger and Britney. She's on their path. It's like watching a car crash - this person throwing all these gifts away."