LONDON — It is apparently better to look and not touch when it comes to Amy Winehouse.
The 24-year-old British singer has been accused of striking a bar patron Saturday evening, supposedly for no reason.
According to Britain's Daily Mirror, Winehouse was tossing back tequila shots with friends when she reportedly punched a fellow drinker at Camden's Dublin Castle pub.
"She was in front of me at the bar and suddenly turned and walloped me three times across the face. It really stung," Wayne Lindsay, 29, told the Mirror. "I couldn't believe it. I hadn't said a word to her or touched her."
"She was wild. She just flipped. It was as if she had voices in her head," he added.
A source close to the star said Winehouse was provoked.
"Someone behind her pinched her bottom and she reacted," said the source. "She's not a shrinking violet and isn't afraid to stand up for herself."
Winehouse left the scene quickly once security stepped in.
"I was really angry she thought she could get away with it. But I let it go," Wayne said of the incident. "She seems unable to control herself."
Soon after her departure, Winehouse found herself in another altercation as she strolled back to her nearby home. The Grammy winner reportedly struck a second person, again after having her behind pinched.
Both incidents come on the heels of Winehouse's well-publicized fan encounter at the Glastonbury festival, in which she lashed out at an audience member who touched her trademark beehive hairdo.
Winehouse's apparent edgy behavior could have to do with her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is expected to receive his sentence today for GBH and perverting justice. The "Rehab" singer recently told Rolling Stone Fielder-Civil's jailing has disrupted her life.
"To be honest, my husband's away, I'm bored, I'm young," she told the magazine. "I felt like there was nothing to live for. It's just been a low ebb."
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