NEW YORK — Russell Brand wishes he could have helped the late singer Amy Winehouse come off drugs. The comedian — who has been sober for over 10 years after battling heroin addiction — has revealed he still feels guilty about not helping the late soul singer get clean when he first realized she was struggling with addiction, femalefirst.co.uk reported. Russell told The Sun newspaper: “I got clean at the age of 27, the age Amy was when she died. “Amy's death was a paradoxical unsurprising shock. I felt like I could have done something to help — to give her the chance I had. “When she died, it was this feeling of, ‘Agh, I knew that was going to happen.' And I had this flickering sense that I should have done something about that. “I feel a bit guilty that there was nothing I did.” The 37-year-old comedian recalled seeing the troubled star — who was found dead in her London home last July — on the party scene and being disturbed by her behavior, prompting him to ask others to help her. Russell explained: “I loved Amy on the basis that I thought she was really, really brilliant. “I recognized that this person has got it, she has got this thing. She is not happy, she is on edge. — Agencies
