Heather Mills Allegedly Has Tape Of Paul McCartney Admitting Hitting Wife Linda
Apparently Heather Mills played an audiotape for British television crews off-camera of a fight between she and Sir Paul, where he allegedly admits hitting his first wife Linda:
Sir Paul’s estranged wife played the tape in an off-camera moment during her emotional tour of TV and radio stations yesterday, according to a newspaper report.
A witness who heard the tape said: “It was quite extraordinary. There were raised voices. Heather and Paul were shouting. Paul can be heard confessing he hit Linda ‘once or twice’.
“No one knew what to do. It was astonishing stuff and seemed to back up Heather’s claim that she’s the victim in all of this.”
What was not clear today was when the tape was made - or why Ms Mills started taping her arguments with Sir Paul. A spokesman for Sir Paul declined to comment.
The tape was played during a lull in the barrage of interviews Heather did with British television yesterday in an attempt to clear her name, which she alleges has been dragged through the mud, and also to try to get the press off her back and keep her family safe.
Yesterday, her PR adviser quit over her decision to do the interviews:
Mr Hall confirmed today that he was no longer representing Ms Mills. He said: “We are still mates but I am not working with her any more. Yesterday she said she wanted to do this TV campaign attacking newspapers, but I have a good relationship with newspapers and my business depends on feeding that good relationship.
“She wanted me to orchestrate this campaign and make calls to newspapers but I have got friends and mates in national newspapers and it didn’t seem right to make those calls and attack them.”
He added that Ms Mills was now handling her own PR. He said she called GMTV herself to set up yesterday’s interview where she showed a folder of clippings and spoke of “4,400 abusive articles” about her.
Mr Hall said: “My advice to her for the past 18 months has been, ‘keep your head down and let’s wait until the divorce is over, and then rebuild your career afterwards’ through the charity and foundations she works for.
“That’s the way it was going. We’ve had very few conversations with newspapers as far as placing any stories are concerned apart from denying the more extreme stuff.”
And this morning, Heather went on NBC’s Today show and had an interview with Matt Lauer, in which she reiterated her claims that the divorce is all Sir Paul’s fault:
She claimed that she told Sir Paul: ‘I’m going to be crucified. I’m going to have a modern day stoning.
You know why we split, you know the truth, you need to stand up and say ‘I am responsible for the break-up of this marriage. You’ll be a hero. It’s very heavily one-sided.’
“I said to him, ‘If you say that, I’ll walk away with nothing and we’ll do a very gentle, quick divorce’.â€
Ms Mills claimed: “He promised he’d do that and I have evidence of that. He did nothing. “Why do you think I had to record every single conversation? Because nobody will believe me. I have pleaded, I have begged, he knows I was at suicide point and still, nothing has been done.†Asked if she thought going public would change McCartney’s stance, she claimed: “Sadly I’ve pleaded with him directly for 18 months. “And hopefully if he does listen to any of these interviews he may stand up for his family for the sake of his daughter.†She also lifted the lid on their marriage — saying they would argue about his failure to give away his fortune to charity.
If indeed she has a tape of Sir Paul admitting he hit his first wife, why doesn’t she play it for the media? Why not put it into the mainstream? Perhaps she is attempting to keep some sort of dignity throughout all this, but then why play it off-camera when she knew it would be leaked to the press? She had to know that by playing it for people off-camera, they would rush to the redtops and tell what they heard. It seems a way of getting it into the press without actually going to the press. But if she is gagged by the courts from saying anything, why play it for anyone to start with?
I will say this…it’s Sir Paul’s money. He can do what he likes with it. If he wants to buy purple Aston-Martins with orange polka-dots and fringes, it’s his business. Yes, he should be involved in at least one charity, considering the impact he could have…but he shouldn’t have to give away everything he owns just because Heather thinks he should. And another thing…people who seriously consider suicide don’t go around talking about it all the time. This makes at least four interviews in the past two days in which she’s brought it up. It smacks very suspiciously of self-promotion.
Just so we are clear, I am in NO way advocating spousal abuse. It’s a horrible thing. But I will say this…I’ve worked with people, I’ve talked with people, and so I’d like to play devil’s advocate for a moment. Let’s say this is true. This could have been one or two very isolated incidents in Sir Paul’s life with Linda, perhaps even early in their marriage when both were younger and stupider. By all accounts, Sir Paul and Linda had a wonderful, loving marriage, but I know that anyone can be capable of anything, and we don’t always know everything about celebrities’ private lives.
But could abuse have been a long-standing pattern with Paul and Linda, covered up by overpaid handlers and a sympathetic press? I would think that if it were, we would have heard something about it by now from someone, somewhere. You can’t do these things for extended periods of time without someone getting wise and looking to profit. I’m not saying it couldn’t have happened, I’m just saying I find it highly unlikely.
From what I’ve read about Heather, she seems to have this very inflated opinion of herself, that somehow she is responsible for “thousands of lives” and thousands of animals through her charity work, that if somehow she slips up that they will be put in danger. She truly believes what she is saying about herself…that she is in the same category as Kate McCann and Princess Diana, for example. She insists over and over that she’s never asked for anything in the divorce settlement as long as Sir Paul admitted he was the cause of the breakup. She honestly believes that she is trying to “protect” Sir Paul, even as she has made court allegations of his mental and physical abuse and drug usage. She says she never uses the media for her own purposes, except when she went on the TV blitz yesterday and today trumpeting her innocence.
But can anyone believe her? This is the same woman who used another woman’s identity, a journalist conveniently also named Heather Mills. This is the same woman who claimed in her autobiography that she left home at age 13 and slept on the streets, but the truth is she lived mostly at home until age 20. Are the allegations true, or is this just another campaign to make Heather the brand look good?
There is so much that could be said, and it is just so convoluted that I’m not going to get into all of it here. Quite frankly, just hearing her on the Today show this morning made my teeth itch. Suffice it to say that by doing these interviews, Heather is doing herself no favors. By comparing herself with Kate McCann and Princess Diana, she is completely misunderstanding both their situations and her own. I think she genuinely believes what she is saying…the problem is, we don’t know if we can believe it too.
UPDATE:Â And if she’s millions in debt to her lawyers, how did she afford a party for 300 people at her house for her daughter’s fourth birthday, complete with fireworks?
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I take your doubts about this “tape” further. She first talked about it a year and it never surfaced. No one has seemingly heard it. Now we’re supposed to believe that she’s content to rant and scream on TV but so dignified as to not use the one single thing that would actually get people to believe her? At the very least wouldn’t it be something to give your LAWYER?
But what clinches it for me is that she’s claiming to have played it for a room full of journalists but conveniently “off camera.” And yet NONE of them made it a story? Why is the only “source” an “unnamed witness” who nattered to a tabloid? You’re telling me that no British journalist in the room who heard this supposed tape would think of running immediately back to their own editor and gladly put their name on such a massive story? Because British journalists are known for being so low-key and respectful? Come on.
Comment by Shanti — November 1, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
He has to smack some sense into that women… lol (jkjk)
Comment by DJ Inphinity — November 1, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
I have trouble imagining a context in an argument where a person would admit to hitting his dead wife, unless he was intoxicated and/or goaded into saying it. The mere fact that Mills would record private conversations with her husband makes me doubt her intentions very highly. The existence of such a tape says more about her than him I think, which is probably why her PR person and lawyers and whatnot all advised her not to do anything with it.
Paul & Linda McCartney always seemed to have a marriage that was a very strong partnership. With Linda I always got the impression of a strong woman who was content to allow her husband to bask in the spotlight while she happily did her own thing. I think Heather Mills thought of his reflected spotlight as her own.
Comment by Kati — November 2, 2007 @ 6:43 am
As a survivor of an abusive marriage, I’m disappointed that the public has such an appalling lack of knowledge about the dynamics of abuse– and it appears that abuse is at the cornerstone of Ms. Mill’s divorce from Sir Paul. YES, it is possible for abuse to be covered up over a long-standing period… and NO, an abuser doesn’t have to be drunk in order to admit hitting a former spouse. I, too, considered taping arguments with my ex towards the end of our marriage… and precisely for the same reason- I felt nobody would believe me. If I taped, I’d be within my rights to expect him to own up or face exposure, just as Ms. Mills apparently did. Trouble was, his explosions were so hard to predict that I couldn’t tape. Of course a few idiots here would think it would say “more about me” than him. And since I didn’t, I have no proof & my accusations are simply unfounded. Gee whiz..she can’t win.
Comment by Melissa — November 5, 2007 @ 4:17 am
I doubt the existance of these tapes. Although I have witnesses abusive relationships, here are my reasons why its unlikely for Linda:
1) She was a strong-willed woman who wouldn’t put up with abuse, if it existed.
2) They had a very loving and caring relationship. Paul is such a sweetheart too. You can just tell he wouldn’t hurt her, he loved her so much
3) If such abuse did exist, would his kids not comment on it by now? They haven’t because there was no abuse.
Comment by Regina — December 26, 2007 @ 4:17 am