David Hasselhoff talks to Amy Winehouse’s dad about rehab and drugs

Oh, for pete’s sake. These two – David Hasselhoff and Mitch Winehouse, dad of Amy – will do just about anything to stay in the spotlight, including talk about Amy’s obvious and ongoing drug issues, relating them to the Hoff’s struggles with alcohol.

Apparently, Mitch has his own show in the UK titled “Mitch Winehouse’s Showbiz Rant” in which he drives his cab around and bitches about how unfair life is. Um, could I have that gig? Seriously. Anyway, David Hasselhoff got in the cab and they started trading tips on how to deal with drugs and alcohol…you know, because they’re both just HUGE experts. Cripes. Here we go:

“The problem that I’ve experienced in my own life and you know, some of the stuff that’s been documented about Amy is really… a universal problem and it has nothing to do with the music business. It’s just life man,” David told Mitch. “It’s just, it’s an illness and what people don’t realize is nobody wakes up in the morning and says, ‘Let me have this problem.’”

Well, actually, drug addiction and alcoholism is not a “universal problem”, lots of people get by just fine without it or deal with it privately, GETTING OVER IT instead of holding press conferences and hogging the media spotlight!