I have to give Amy Winehouse credit for one thing: she hired herself a PR rep. Maybe she’s always been around and just hasn’t been saying much, but an official person is now speaking on Amy’s behalf. Considering all the talking she, her family, and in-laws have done, it seems like a good idea to call in a pro.

Now just because someone hires a PR rep doesn’t mean that person will say anything the rest of us find remotely believable. But at least the person lies to us, which sort of amounts to some admission that Amy is doing things bad/weird/dangerous enough that they can’t be admitted to. On Sunday morning Amy was photographed outside in just her jeans and a red bra, wandering around and looking disheveled. No makeup, no beehive… I mean who the hell goes out without their beehive on? I don’t care that she forgot her shirt, but at least put on your 13 inches of hair. My God, the depravity. Well apparently, Amy wasn’t on a bender, coked out of her mind, or suffering some sort of complete mental breakdown. She was just sleepy and confused. If I had a nickel for each time I wandered around without a shirt because I was tired, I could retire. Maybe Amy should consider that.

“She was not on an all-night bender,” her U.K. rep tells PEOPLE of Winehouse’s appearance outside her flat at 5:45 a.m. Sunday morning. Winehouse, 24, was sound asleep when she heard a noise outside. Having had friends over earlier in the evening, she wondered if one returned, according to the rep, who said: “She heard all these noises, and she went outside to look and there were all these photographers.”

The rep added, “She’d been sound asleep, and then there were all these photographers – of course she looked startled.” British newspapers reported the singer – captured in photographs sans makeup and her trademark beehive – was “muttering incomprehensibly.”

Says her rep: “In light of recent reports, it’s easy to make assumptions, but she’s trying to get better and she needs the space to do that.”

[From People]

Um…. alright. Amy Winehouse was surprised to see photographers? I was under the impression that they follow her pretty much 24/7, considering all the odd things we’ve seen her do. It seemed like she pretty much couldn’t escape them, so she just decided to go about her drug-fueled existence pretending they weren’t there. And I know that everyone has their own sleeping patterns, and perhaps a deep sleeper wouldn’t be totally awake and rational, but I can’t imagine they wouldn’t remember to put their shirt on. And even if they did, one step out into London’s cold December air would likely wake them up pretty quickly. At which point a normal person would look down, see their ta-tas, gasp, clutch their hands over their chest, and skittle away. Unless they were on drugs. Then they’d probably keep wandering around, looking for that magic caterpillar that brought them the nice lunch yesterday.