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With headlines such as The Sun's "Grabby Road - Nagging Heather could get £400m from Macca", or "Now we'll find out, once and for all, if she's the gold-digger we always suspected" (Daily Mail), Paul twice had to issue statements urging fans to ignore the allegation that Heather married him only for his money. What stung the couple most was the charge that she was a manipulative gold-digger. But what? To the reader, consuming the anonymously sourced coverage was like playing Chinese whispers with earplugs in.
McCartney was moved to condemn the "100 per cent untrue" coverage, but, given that they were ending their four-year marriage, there must have been substance to some of it. It was the cue for the "friends" to spill their dubious beans: she made him dye his hair or have a facelift she wanted to give her "hippie husband" a style makeover she was always putting him down they rowed so often they used separate hotels she insisted he give up his beloved spliffs, and was always trying to drag him out to parties. Even as these talks were (or were not) taking place, another unnamed "friend" (a description increasingly difficult to sustain) was telling the Sunday Mirror: "McCartney fled wife after becoming fed up with being a doormat." Then the separation was formally announced: "It is with sadness that we have decided to go our separate ways." He flew off to the south of France a few days later he flew back again for "crisis talks" with his wife. She resented his fame he wanted her at home more she was in hiding from prying press photographers they've had their most ferocious row to date.
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There then followed 15 days of denials, plus various "friends" chipping in their twopenn'orth. What has moved them to come forward was the trauma for Heather and Paul that broke surface three weeks ago with a story in the News of the World about the couple living apart. And unlike the anonymous "friends" quoted in the stories on the couple's split, they are prepared to go on the record. Colleagues, friends and associates have come forward to tell of a secret Heather, one very different from her public image. It was nothing short of The Hounding of Heather, and yet, in investigating it, The Independent on Sunday has discovered another side to this woman. No one actually accused her of supplying him with a dagger and urging him to murder a house guest, but at times it was a close-run thing.īut whatever happened inside the marriage (and only two people know that), little in the couple's eventful lives could ever have prepared them for the torrid press coverage of their split. The coverage that followed the announcement of her split from one of the most famous and revered men on the planet painted her variously as a nag, wicked step-mother, foul-tempered harridan, exploiter of her partner's fame, fomenter of rows and gold-digger. She may still be Lady McCartney but she could hardly have attracted more hostility this past week if her name were Lady Macbeth.
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Instead, she is back in a wheelchair, at an undisclosed location, feeling "very low" and still reeling from not just the break-up of her marriage, but also the kind of press coverage normally meted out to serial killers.
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This weekend, Heather Mills McCartney should have been preparing for the kind of week she enjoys most: bouncing from party to party, TV studio to TV studio, with Paul by her side, and all to promote the launch on Thursday of her new book.
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