Amy Winehouse is lucky to be alive according to her now ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil

Amy Winehouse nearly died in her ex-husband’s arms after a three-day heroin and crack binge, he said today. Winehouse had started a drink and drugs binge three days earlier to celebrate the success of her 2006 album ‘Back to Black.’ Blake Fielder-Civil, 27, who divorced Winehouse this month on the grounds of her adultery, had also been taking heroin and crack and was trying to get his wife to go to bed as she had not slept for three days.

Fielder-Civil told The Sun how the singer’s eyes went blank before she passed out and stopped breathing. ‘It was nearly midnight and I’d finally got her upstairs. We were sitting on the bed talking,’ he says. ‘Her eyes suddenly went blank. She started having a fit on the bed. She slid down on to the floor before I could stop her. She started quivering again and it suddenly grew into what seemed like a full-blown epileptic fit.’

He described how he pulled Winehouse’s tongue out of her mouth so she couldn’t bite it before prying her mouth open to perform CPR. ‘I held her to me and I thought she was dying in my arms… I couldn’t bear for her to die in front of me.’

She was taken to London’s University College Hospital where she was put on a drip after collapsing again in reception, according to a report.

The couple after a fight

Fielder-Civil claims he encouraged Winehouse to quit her drug habit, but during their marriage Winehouse’s family blamed Fielder-Civil for encouraging her addiction to class A drugs. Her father Mitch said in 2008: ‘He’s not entirely responsible, she’s got to take a portion of the responsibility, but it’s clear, it really kicked off when they got together.’

There are claims Winehouse is ‘desperate’ to reconcile with Blake and has refused to give up her married name while Fielder-Civil stated in divorce papers he found it ‘intolerable’ to live with Winehouse.