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Lily Allen's mother Alison Owen has voiced her fears that her daughter would meet the same ill-fate as her music contemporary Amy Winehouse. 

Ahead of the release of a biopic about the late star, who passed away in 2011 from alcohol poisoning, the producer spoke about her fears for her famous child, who has battled well-documented demons with substance. 

Speaking in The Times, Alison, 63, revealed that she saw the slippery slope Amy fell down and feared her daughter would go the same way at the hands of vultures in the spotlight, who were accused of overseeing Amy's demise. 

She said: 'Lily fitted the bill because, early in her success, her role model was her dad [the 'hell-raising' actor Keith Allen]... She'd seen him idolised for swearing, taking drugs and being drunk in the Groucho Club...

'So in her young brain she thought that's what you did when you became famous. 

Alison is producing the controversial Back To Black biopic with Studiocanal with Debra Hayward and Tracey Seaward, while Sam Taylor-Johnson is at the helm. 

Alison reflected on seeing Amy at an industry party in the mid noughties alongside her famous daughter - and the heartache she felt at seeing he tragic star. 

She said: 'Amy was as thin as a pencil. And she and Blake were in the middle of this room dancing in a full-on sexual way. Both were clearly 'using' and I remember thinking, 'This is an accident waiting to happen. This is going to be a disaster.' ' 

Lily and Amy frequently had comparisons drawn due to their style of music, hard-partying lifestyles and the era in which they soared to fame. 

Back in 2014, Lily said of the late star: '[Amy] was too damn interesting for her own good. What [Amy] had to deal with was 10 times anything I had to deal with...