dailymail.co.uk: Apparently drug-free and writing music again, Amy can expect an especially warm welcome when she returns to St Lucia, her second home, later this year. For I learn the troubled diva has become something of a local heroine after effectively saving the life of a stranger she met in a beach bar. Amy paid £1,000 for a life-saving operation for penniless local Jacob Jean Baptiste after she spotted him writhing in pain near the five-star Cotton Bay Village resort where she was staying. ‘She sent over a security guard with cash to pay for me to go to hospital,’ says Baptiste. ‘I was in a very bad state because of a hernia, but I couldn’t afford an operation. I don’t know what I would have done if she hadn’t given me the money. Maybe I wouldn’t be here now.’ Baptiste tells me they met after the singer heard him performing Bob Marley at a karaoke bar. ‘When I saw her after I came out of hospital, I gave her a hug and tried to say thank you, but she just said: “You don’t need to thank me.”