Amy Winehouse’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil has confessed to UK’s News of the World that he is pretty much responsible for his wife’s drug addiction.

“I introduced her [Winehouse] to heroin, crack cocaine and self-harming. I feel more than guilty… I dragged Amy into it and without me there is no doubt that she would never have gone down that road. I ruined something beautiful. Now I have to let her go to save her life. I am not abandoning her. I am doing this out of love,” Fielder-Civil is quoted as saying by the British tabloid.

Just about a week ago, Winehouse announced that her marriage to Fielder-Civil was over.

We just hope it isn’t too late for Winehouse to turn her life around…

The New York Post’s Page Six reports that former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss has emailed Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre to offer her deal to write a tell-all book for her publishing company (which also published Fleiss’ own tell-all book a few years ago).

By the way, the tabloid also reveals that the former Madam will appear as a contestant on Britain’s “Celebrity Big Brother” early next year.

New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg Friday night, TMZ.com reports.

According to the entertainment site, it all happened in the Manhattan nightclub “The Latin Quarter”.

While the police are investigating the incident, the Giants have issued a statement in which they acknowledge that Plaxico has in fact been “involved in an apparent accidental shooting” and that he “suffered a wound to his right thigh.”

Plaxico was released from the hospital yesterday.

KYW-TV news anchor Larry Mendte was found guilty this week and  sentenced… if you’d car to call it that,  to six months’ house arrest for hackinghis colleagues email and creating circumstances that led to her dismissal from her job.

He was given 250 hours community service and a $5,000 fine.

Mendte pleaded guilty to breaking into co-host Alycia Lane’s personal account and forwarding information about her to the press.

One leaked message included information about Lane in a bikini, which had been sent to a married ex-colleague.

Lawyers for Lane said her career had been “destroyed” by a “tabloid feeding frenzy”.

When giving reasons for his  hacking the account, Mendte told the court room : “My role at the station was still being diminished when Alycia told me… that she was the rising star and that I was ‘50 and on my way out’.”I felt I was in trouble. My career, my future, my family’s future was in trouble. And, this is where I got into more trouble - federal trouble.”

He confessed to breaking into Lane’s email hundreds of times before and after she was dismissed by KYW-TV in January after being arrested. The charges were later dropped and she is currently suing the broadcaster for wrongful dismissal.

Everyone knows that some celebrities, from Winehouse to Lohan to Spears, and more particularly those who are new to the money and glitz, don’t handle it well and become somewhat cloudy of judgement with their newfound wealth, but what about those for whom it isn’t a new thing, who still find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer momentum.

Why does it seem so odd to us to see them, floundering when wealthy, presumably having it all, and then losing it. What makes us watch as they piss away their fortunes on drugs and bad choices.

A case in point would be DMX, a superb talent, whose acting skills in the couple movies he did, even considering the less talented star of the show, impressed us, and whose current legal troubles, to the tune of five, six or seven arrests in less months, have us asking “What is this guys PROBLEM?”

More to the point, how can the remaining celebrities NOT be scared straight by the loss of such legendary names and colossal talents as John Belushi, Heath Ledger, Freddie Prinze, River Phoenix,Christina Onassis, Dylan Thomas, Andy Gibb, Anna Nicole Smith and so many more.

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Rapper MC Breed — who was once part of the Tupac scene — was found dead at a friend’s house in Michigan yesterday.

Breed, hospitalized in September when his kidneys collapsed appears to have died in his sleep according to reports on TMZ. The cause of death is so far unknown. (photo is also courtesy of TMZ news)He was 36.