Ronnie Wood reveals the advice he gave to late Amy Winehouse when she was 'hiding vodka in water bottles' and begging him for help

Ronnie Wood has revealed he told Amy Winehouse to 'get it together' when the star begged him for help with her struggles with alcohol.

The singer tragically died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of just 27, just days after sparking concern with an appearance on stage in Belgrade.

Ronnie said he was 'sad' to see Amy's life was tragically cut short, and he and his Rolling Stones bandmates have paid tribute to her on their new album Foreign Tongues with an interpretation of her song You Know I'm No Good.

He said: 'She would go: 'Oh Ronnie, what am I going to do?' I said: ''Look, everyone knows you've got vodka in the water bottle. Get it together and get on stage.''

'But if you could get her up there and she stayed there, it'd be great. I'm sad because she didn't do her full span. It was like saying goodbye to Billie Holiday again.'

Amy famously performed with The Rolling Stones at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 2007, with Keith Richards sharing his regret he didn't get to know her.

Speaking to The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, he said: 'I was always sort of ''well, I'm bound to meet her down the road''. 

'You expect things to happen, and unfortunately no. But that's what records are for. I'm just very glad and honoured to have played with her at least once.' 

The Rolling Stones are set to release their 25th album on July 10, but they have shared there are currently no plans for a world tour to promote the record due to Keith's reluctance to commit to long periods of travel.

Winehouse had been in and out of treatment for drug and alcohol dependency and struggled with alcohol withdrawal and anxiety before she was found dead at her Camden home in 2011, aged just 27.   

Two inquests determined the singer's blood-alcohol content was five times over the legal drink-drive limit, with her cause of death subsequently recorded as accidental by way of alcohol poisoning. 

Winehouse, who is buried with her grandmother Cynthia Levy, is said to have been subject to nine interventions led by parents about her boozy lifestyle.

Her father Mitch had battled to get his beloved daughter to abandon the dangerous drug-fuelled life which was killing her, even as she enjoyed extraordinary success.

Amy's husband Blake Fielder-Civil had long been cited as the cause of her problems after admitting he introduced her to heroin in the mid-2000s. 

But in an interview with Paul C Brunson's We Need To Talk podcast, Blake insisted that Amy was already experimenting with drugs, specifically cocaine, before they met. 

'I need to defend myself slightly on things, you know it's not fair to the people who love me to think untruths,' he said. 'Amy had started trying cocaine with her ex-partner. 

'There are pictures of Amy at the BRITs with, you know, as they do "powder up the nose", you know, and, yeah, it was known. It was known that Amy had experimented with drugs and it was nothing to do with me. 

'The heroin was something as I said that I tried, let's say ten times, smoked it over a period of six months with some friends. 

'That's where I was at with that. But yeah, the first time she did it was with me and it was probably my sixth time.'

While his own downward spiral into addiction started at the same time as Amy's, Blake maintained he never encouraged the singer to take it. 

'No, there was no encouraging or not,' he insisted. 'It was a sense of, in the same way that if I said, I know this is going to sound strange to a lot of people, if I said to my friend, would you want a beer in the pub? I'm not hoping that they fall into alcoholism...

'I wasn't thinking with any luck they'll become a drug addict. There was no destructive element to it. It was "do you want to try this?"

'Amy never, ever got to a stage of IV drug use of intravenous injecting. I did. 

'I would say my time post Amy's passing especially was about as miserable and as full on that any drug addict could get.' 

Blake was locked up at HMP Leeds, seeing out a 32-month prison sentence for domestic burglary and firearm offenses when staff informed him of her passing.

Tragically, the former couple had spoken just days earlier and were making tentative plans to 'reconcile' shortly before her death.  

He recalled: 'The week Amy passed, I was in jail, unfortunately. We were still very much talking about the possibility of reconciling again. 

'So I would say the definitive moment I realised that wasn’t gonna happen was when I got told that she'd passed away. That's not me saying, oh, if Amy's alive now, we'd be together, I'm not saying that, I have a life now I'm in love, happy. 

'However, I have no qualms about saying that, that we would still be in each other's lives now.'