How to define the relationship Catriona Gourlay had with the singer Amy Winehouse? Best friend doesn’t quite cut it somehow. Companion doesn’t convey the trust and love they shared. Or the bed, for that matter. Catriona uses the word ‘multifaceted’, perhaps because it is least likely to offend Winehouse’s fans.
Yet, it’s clear that the relationship between these two women – which began even before Amy was famous – was intense, intimate and it lasted until the end, even beyond.
It speaks volumes that it was Catriona, numb with grief, who helped lay out Amy’s body for burial after she was found
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