Amy Winehouse has checked back in rehab. For the millionth time, it feels like. I’m too lazy to even try to look up how many times Amy has been to rehab, but I’m going to say “eight” feels right. According to a statement from Amy’s rep, she “has embarked on a treatment program at the Priory Clinic. She wants to be ready for performances in Europe this summer and decided to seek an assessment. She will remain at the Priory on doctors’ advice.” Amy has already scheduled several gigs this summer in Europe, the kick-off scheduled for June 18. Can Amy pull it together in, what, less than four weeks?

Apparently, her dad Mitch was the one to instigate this latest rehab trip. According to People’s source, “Her dad sat her down and said ‘I think you’re drinking too much again.’ So she agreed to go an assessment to stop it becoming a bigger problem.”

So, what did Amy do on her way to The Priory? She bought some vodka for the road. Of course.

TROUBLED AMY WINEHOUSE dropped into a cornershop and necked a bottle of vodka – while on her way to REHAB. The bedraggled star downed the miniature of Smirnoff at the counter before checking in for treatment at The Priory.

A stunned onlooker at Meadway Food and Wine in Southgate, North London, said: “She seemed out of it. She was stumbling about, slurring her words. I was shocked to see her buy vodka so early in the day, and even more shocked to see her knock it straight back.”

Just two minutes earlier, scruffy Amy – dressed in a tracksuit and sporting her trademark beehive – had stunned clients in a hair salon.

The Back to Black singer, 27, had stormed in to use the toilet at 12.30pm on Wednesday.
Horrified customers said they heard the tattooed ex-junkie VOMITING before she walked out, telling staff: “I just puked all over your bathroom.”

One punter said: “I felt really sorry for the staff. I think they were too scared to say anything.”

Last night her spokesman denied she had been sick, saying her comment was a joke. He added: “Amy’s embarked on treatment at The Priory.”

[From The Sun]

Poor Amy. And dear God, she STILL has a rep? That poor bastard. In case you think The Sun can’t be relied upon, People Magazine confirms the vodka story, with a friend of Amy’s telling the magazine that Amy downed the vodka on her way to the clinic “in typical Amy style.” As for whether or not THIS rehab trip will work… yeah, not so much. Amy just uses these rehab stays like other people go to spas. She just goes there to get some healthy meals, get some rest, get sober for two seconds and then she’s got her second wind and she’s ready to party again.

Photos courtesy of WENN.