Amy Winehouse sheltered homeless girl

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London: Tragic star Amy Winehouse onceinvited a young runaway into her home and looked after her forsix months, her father Mitch said.

The Rehab hitmaker, who died last year at the age of 27from alcohol poisoning, showed off her compassionate side bytaking in a stranger, who had been living on the streets,reported Daily Star online.

"I laugh about it now, because there was a young lady wholived with Amy for six months. I never really figured out whoshe was. I said, 'Who's this young girl who's walking around?'She said, 'She's a homeless girl and I'm looking after her',"he said.

Mitch now runs the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which aims tohelp disadvantaged and homeless young people, and is convincedhis late daughter would be proud of the charity started up inher memory.

"What we're doing now is really just carrying on what shewas doing before. There's so many charitable things that shedid that really are a surprise to us now. We're still findingout about it, it's lovely... Amy would have loved it," headded.