Amy Winehouse Is Afraid Of Ghosts

Amy Winehouse has admitted to purposely hurting herself in the past, prides herself on her brawling ability, and her overall lifestyle seems to epitomize the term "self-destructive," but now the troubled 24-year-old British singer/songwriter may have the boogie man to blame for the latest scratches that were photographed on her arms as she fled her North London flat after midnight earlier this week.

Winehouse has apparently claimed that a ghost who she's named Henry is haunting her abode and is trying to harm her. She's so spooked that she's staying at a hotel and doesn't want to return home until it's been exorcised.

"She has a spare room in her house which she has been too terrified to redecorate because she believes a child died there," an unnamed friend is said to have told Britain's Daily Star newspaper. "It has creepy aeroplane wallpaper and a weird feel to it.

"Amy is terrified because she thinks he's managed to take over the entire house and has brought bad spirits with him that are scratching and harming her."

If Winehouse's latest scars weren't self-inflicted or didn't come courtesy of a poltergeist, perhaps they could have been caused by the 30 newborn mice she and fellow eccentric singer and drug abuser Pete Doherty were playing with in a recent online video.

"This one's got a message for Blake," says Winehouse in the clip, referring to her incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil, as she holds a mouse in front of the camera. "Blake, please don't divorce mommy. She loves you ever so."

Winehouse and Fielder-Civil's one-year anniversary was earlier this week, but there are rumours that their marriage could be on the skids and that she's become involved with another man.

In another two-minute video directed by Doherty, Winehouse is shown holding a cat. Feline claws can be pretty sharp, so there's another possible explanation for her scratches. But blaming things on a ghost seems more appropriate.

Winehouse has been confirmed as one of the main stage performers for this year's Glastonbury festival and is scheduled to appear on June 28 — barring any unforeseen (or supernatural) events that may cause another of the no-shows that she's become noted for over the past year.

Winehouse won an Ivor Novello Award for her song "Love Is A Losing Game" on Thursday in London, but her father had to accept on her behalf because she arrived at the ceremony too late.