Apart from those times when she's won a trophy here and there,  it's rarely a good news day for Amy Winehouse. New reports about the troubled singer's health, however, are so messed up that we long for the days when we could crack wise about her impetigo-face and habit of making home movies starring Pete Doherty and baby mice and still sleep at night.

Winehouse has contracted emphysema, her dad, Mitch Winehouse, told the media in several interviews with the British press. Last week, the Grammy-winner was hospitalized after suffering from a fainting spell and went through various tests, leading the media to speculate the soul singer had caught TB.

However, Winehouse's health woes have been diagnosed as the first stages of emphysema, an incurable lung disease that is usually contracted in old age. Winehouse is just 24.

"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," the elder Winehouse told UK paper the Sunday Mirror. "The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid -- she wouldn't have been able to breathe…With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 percent lung capacity."

Winehouse remains hospitalized, and according to her dad, she's "responding brilliantly to treatment."

She doesn't have long to recuperate, though. The Back to Black singer is scheduled to perform at the Glastonbury festival next weekend -- and daddy Winehouse is adamant that his daughter will make it (even if an oxygen tank would totally clash with her stage costumes) and that her medical condition shouldn't prevent her from singing.

He goes so far as to suggest that Winehouse's previous engagements this summer have actually kept her from death's door.

"If she hadn't done recent shows in Moscow and Portugal she could have been dead by now," he said. "She abstains and regulates her drug use when she has to do a show."

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