I still text Amy telling her to come home, says dad Mitch Winehouse

London, June 27 (ANI): Amy Winehouse's father Mitch, has revealed that he still sends text messages to his daughter's phone asking her to come home.

The 60-year-old dad of the tragic singer, said that he felt guilty that he could now sleep at night because he no longer had to worry about the songstress.

"Sometimes I text her telling her to come home. But she's never coming home and I'm going to have to deal with that for the rest of my life," the Daily Mail quoted him as telling Grazia magazine.

The late singer's father said that he had not been able to scatter his daughter's ashes, but said that he had managed to replace the image in his head of her lifeless body with that of her laughing.

He said that he could not go inside his daughter's north London home, where the 'Back To Black' singer was found dead at the age of 27 on July 23 last year.

An inquest later found that the late star, who had kicked her drug habit, was more than five times the drink-drive limit.

"I haven't been inside for three months. It's too still," he told the publication.

"The worst bit was emptying her sweets drawer. She loved boiled sweets, and there was still a drawer full of them.

"She could have entered the Olympics for sweet-eating. It broke my heart," he said.

The former taxi driver, who has written a book about his daughter's life with proceeds going to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, said: "I haven't even been able to scatter Amy's ashes following her cremation.

"I've still got her ashes and my mum Cynthia's. At some point we'll do something with them and they'll be together." (ANI)