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Bryan Adams ‘tried to save’ Princess Diana and Amy Winehouse

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Bryan Adams attempted to help late singer Amy Winehouse kick her drug and alcohol abuse, and also hoped he could help Princess Diana before her untimely death in 1997.

The Canadian artist, 64, once flew the British singer out to his six-bedroom villa in Mustique for Christmas in 2007, at the height of her addiction struggles.

Winehouse, who rose to fame with her hit singles including “Rehab” and “Back to Black”, died from alcohol poisoning aged 27 in July 2011.

Recalling Winehouse’s chaotic visit to his home, Adams – who met her during a photoshoot – claimed that the fellow musician swallowed around £2,000 of heroin wraps on the flight out,

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