Amy Winehouse Adoption Rumors Pure Poppycock

Sometimes, if it sounds unbelievable, it's not to be believed.

Yesterday reports from UK paper The Mirror started emerging that recently deceased singer Amy Winehouse had secretly been working on adopting a 10-year-old island girl named Dannika Augustine from St. Lucia.

Too-good-to-be true pictures of Amy on the island playing with the little girl emerged and a heart-breaking account of yet another tragic element of the Winehouse story.

You mean to tell me Amy Winehouse was all set to go Angelina Jolie and save an underprivileged little black island girl from a life of destitution? All while trying to manage a nasty drug addiction and rescue a crumbling career? You don't say!

10-year-old Dannika told the paper “Amy was already my mother. I would call her mum and she would call me her daughter. She took care of me and we had fun together. I loved her and she loved me. She was the most amazing person and I was looking forward to living with her here or in London. I cannot believe she is gone. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”

The girl's father, who lived in Germany, even got in on the story: "My mother had told me about Amy and I knew she could give my daughter a wonderful life. I said if my mum thought it was a good idea, then it was OK with me. I also spoke to Dannika’s mother and she said she would agree to it.”

As you might have imagined, the weekend's big screaming Amy Winehouse headline was pure poppycock.

Winehouse's reps put the kibosh on the rumors, telling TMZ "I think [Amy] might have met her in St. Lucia, but she was in no way about to adopt her."

The same reps told Gossip Cop "There’s no truth to it.”

Quite the sad story, but even sadder that it's make believe.