Have your say: The Mills McCartney Affair

Have your say: The Mills McCartney Affair
  • Comments: 38 in total
  • Author: MyVillage

It’s been one of the biggest divorce settlements in history, which has held the attention of the national media as well as the gossip mags.

We’ve seen outbursts left right and centre from Ms. Mills, pleading her plight from the media, to the media, whilst simultaneously performing on skates across the Atlantic. Paul McCartney has remained rather quiet about the whole affair, and why not? Heather’s public blathering has only served to tarnish her own profile, rather than that of her estranged husband. However, not enough to damage her chances in court it appears.

Awarded a record £24 million, which works out at about £700 for every married minute, it seems amazing that Heather continued to vilify Paul McCartney on the steps of court. I saw no demonstration that she had contributed to his wealth or helped hold a home together as he earnt the cash to support his family. Rather it appears that she has simply stepped in and out of a rich mans life, and in doing so demanded extortionate recompense.

This is not to say that I ‘feel sorry’ for Paul, as a very rich and famous man, he should have known better than to enter into marriage without any pre-nuptials, and we’re all aware of the various warnings issued by members of his family, who I presume will be swallowing the words ‘I told you so…’ at this very moment.

What do you think? Is Heather Mills simply a publicity hungry gold digger? Or did she deserve every penny awarded? What part did Paul McCartney have to play in the whole ordeal? And what part do you think the media has played in supporting or vilifying those involved?

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MyVillage, 01st November

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*Yvette*Roberts* said on 26th April ...

"Heather Mills is a gold diging wh*re! Paul McCartney has worked darn hard for his money. He has no worrys about giving his money to his daughter its his flesh and blood!! She will want for nothin!! 35.000 p.a for a 4 year old is a lot of dough! I don't know what Heather has done to deserve his money though £700 for every hour she was married to him is steep! I thought people married for love i didnt realise it was a job! So what her names been through the mud she brings it all on her self! Paul McCartney is a well loved and respected man she is a nobody the best thing that ever came out of her is Be. Peace for Be and paul!"


Annatosa said on 01st April ...

"This woman is a disgrace to what a true feminine woman is all about. She is typical of the society we live in where money rules! Men beware and women lets prove that we are the true mother earth's not the SH**t that some men now think we are thanks to women like Heather Mills. Pity help her daughter with her as a role model."


zakir hassan said on 01st April ...

"She is a fucking bitch only got married to a posh man to get divorce and rip him off. Only a bitch can do this..."


Deanna said on 01st April ...

"I think he pretty much got what he deserved. Paul McCartney only dates young girls or rich heiresses, how shallow is that? His first wife was a young, rich, privileged heiress, also looking to bag a rock star, which she did, and was smart enough to stay with him, thereby gaining lasting fame and a "career" (when she felt like it) as a photographer, and a title to boot. Of course her temperment was different, and the age difference wasn't a factor, so it lasted. Regular folk have to pay for their mistakes, why shouldn't he?"


g said on 29th March ...

"I think we are all be being really harsh to her... NOT she shudn of got a penny, she never worked for it. And as for travelling economy, some people can't afford to travel at all. I'm glad to see that charity work kept her feet on the ground..."


Steve said on 29th March ...

"I admire your optimism that a people carrier could silence Heather, I can assure you an Airbus 380 would struggle. However, she does not deserve most of the below vitriol. Lets face it, most you are poor and are merely jealous of her contrived gotten gains. If you were as attractive and as strong as that (albeit flawed manipulative) woman, you would have figured out it was (and will continue to be) a financial bonanza. You wait when she gets on the US networks (and she will), the £23,000,000 will soon become pocket money. She attracted a very rich ageing Beatle and got rich in the process. Get over it, and enjoy watching her make a fool of herself for many years to come. "


Ann said on 27th March ...

"Some years ago I had a date with a man who went out with Heather Mills(long before she met Sir Paul McCartney)I can not repeat what he told me however I get the impression she was a goldigger years ago. She says that the press has hounded her since she married Paul,yet she spent over eleven minutes speaking to them on the day of the settlement. A classic case of using the press when it suits!"


jude lennon said on 27th March ...

"Oh poor wee Heather! She obviously has the old bit mental health problems! Poor Paul, but I am sure he will pull through. As for Heather... It's a shame she will just have to live with flying scum class like the rest of us!"


Kay said on 27th March ...

"Heather Mills is just not doing herself any favours at all. Every time we turn on the TV or open a paper she is moaning. Today I read that she claims £35,000 pa is not enough for her to live on. She whined that she would have to travel economy. This amount is far above many people's salaries and also I guess more than she earned as a charity worker before she met the Beatle. how did she live on less before she met Paul if it is an impossibility? Comments like these only add to the impression of her being a deranged and ruthless gold-digger. Any sympathy anyone could have had for her is eroded every day by the thoughtless comments and gestures this woman does. In my opinion it is not only the settlement that Heather is angry about she seems to have a deep dislike and feelings of jealousy towards Paul and his close-knit family. He is no angel but why on earth would one waste days, even weeks trying to knock another person down? e.g Paul. I also believe that she thinks that being a charity worker/campaigner is more worthy than being a musician and doesn't understand why people worship Paul. She needs to stop being an interfering busy body. I also believe that she is one of those people who once they believe they have been slighted they cannot just keep a dignified silence. Their egos are so large that they have to go in guns ablazing no matter what the outcome or who gets hurt. A person with a normal ego would have taken the money slipped out of the public eye and concentrated on providing a good home for her daughter."


Perry said on 25th March ...

"i cant believe the amount of crazy comments on here....especially the ones saying basically its their private mess then criticising Sir Paul for not speaking out. The courts said it all, he was truthfull and she lied in court, thtas why she didnt get more... I'm not saying Paul is an angel or anything I'm sure he has his faults but heather clearly has issues and as for giving to charity being an issue with the marriage im sure she can do what she wants with her money but the fact is the vast majority of the wealth they had as a couple was earned by him before he met her... It's his business what he spends his money on..."


Joanne Martin said on 25th March ...

"I feel that Paul was obviously very lonely after the death of his beloved Linda and he jumped in to an inappropriate relationship too soon. I think that Ms Mills would have fared better with the press and public if she had behaved in a more dignified manner throughout the whole saga. He has his small daughter for comfort, but that means he still has to have contact with Heather for some years to come."


Wholehog said on 20th March ...

"The moneygrabber should return to the streets to work on her back again to earn for herself"


gat said on 18th March ...

"She looks like the riddler! "


jeffwindsor said on 18th March ...

"she loves your money yer yer yer . can buy me love,"


poppet said on 18th March ...

"i can't believe this woman - she has spent a mere 4 years in the company of the man and she is now awarded millions of pounds. i can understand such big settlements when a couple have been together for, say, 25 years, when that wife has brought up the children and supported their husband through his career - but she has done neither of these. i don't understand how she's managed to wangle a penny really. she is a repulsive woman, and following her claims that some of the problems in the marriage came from Pauls reluctance to donate to charity, i'll be very, very interested to see how much of her £24 mill goes to the purse of the less fortunate!!!!"


Tammy said on 06th November ...

"She wants to be famous, she wants the lifestyle but she balks at bad press. You can't have it both ways. If she is unhappy then let her step off the stage. She won't though because bad press or no she enjoys it. I think she even enjoys the bad press as all she really seems to want is attention. To those saying she deserves a break, I say no she does not. We the public deserve a break from her and her grand standing. Enough of her already."


Alan said on 03rd November ...

"It is time she drys her eyes and moves on with life. She doesnt know she is born. She will walk away a multi millionairess and all she is doing is turning people against her. what is she trying to achieve i say lower her profile and remove herself and the child away from the public eye instead of thrusting them into it."


ron said on 03rd November ...

"She would be better thought of if she had said she did not want any of Paul's money but would like a trust fund set up for their daughter. Let's face it she has done nothing to amass that wealth"


elizabeth said on 03rd November ...

"Lets be fair do any of you know what Sir Paul is really like behind closed doors. He may not be the person you all so much admire just because he is rich and famous that dont mean a thing but what it do mean is he can win any case because he can afford it whether he is right or wrong.and is he man enough to hold his hands up and admit in public that he has contributed to the break down of his marriage i think not."


charmin said on 03rd November ...

"HEATHER, love... seriously... stop stop stop... WITHOUT TRYING TO SOUND REALLY TERRIBLE. YOUR, You. And ur trying to fight a battle with one of the worlds most loved men and artist going... Our Paul. Now please stop embarasing urself on national TV. Your only making urself look silly luv!!! Good luck with the brilliant charity work your doing. Your work that you do is what you should be recoqnised for. Not this silly divorce, which should be kept personal as best as possible with Paul. Good luck... x"


sam said on 03rd November ...

"give the woman a break "


Susan Shinton said on 03rd November ...

"I dont think Heather is comparing herself to anyone, she's just stating true facts. Give her a break!!"


Alicia said on 03rd November ...

"What happened between Heather and Sir Paul is their private business but why he didn't stand up behind his child's mother when it came to the divorce? Why it is always child who suffers in situations like this? Sir Paul should've shown at least minimum respect to his ex-wife and speak out!How he will feel in years when his daughter will be old enough to ask him those questions? I am not interested in taking sides because nobody wins in this situation but the person who loses is this poor little girl..."


Michael said on 03rd November ...

"What a terrible person she is..."


Denise Carlyle said on 03rd November ...

"I think Paul McCartney should cough up and give Heather Mills a decent payoff. Whether people think she is a gold digger or not He married HER and she bore him a child. He knew what he was doing and so it's his own look-out. Anyway, I would never side with a stingy rich man when there is so much poverty in the world. "


michael mcdonald said on 03rd November ...

"A well ochestrated outburst, Heather mills knew exactly what she was doing and the media fell for it by giving her more publicity. The media should have ignored her and we would not be talking or writing about her just now."


Terry hicks said on 03rd November ...

"How in the world did Heather Mills get into such a mess! As for Paul Mc Cartney why did he cause such a mess! Together they look beautiful united and strong but how in the world did their marriage go wrong"


R Smith said on 02nd November ...

"It's time Heather grew up. She wanted to be high profile, she's ended up with all the attention that entails. Like or lump it, it's no longer private - she needs to accept her publicity of events raises her profile and increases interest and speculation for all sorts of reasons. You cannot expect the limelight and sympathy one moment, and then privacy and sympathy the next. That is simply not realistic. Play the public and they will play you."


susan said on 01st November ...

"I think you should leave her alone, she is on her way to havign a breakdown. I know Paul is an icon, but he's a man who is looked at as if he is an angel. It takes two for a marriage to work and it takes two to break a marriage. So don't just drag one down."


K Jeffery said on 01st November ...

"Your articles title is offensive to the McCanns - you should be more thoughtful to some genuine victims in life."


Paul Spencer said on 01st November ...

"Her Charity work is very commendable, but for us lesser mortals that aren't in a position were we do not have to work and would like to spend our time helping charities, not feasable. I am sure Paul McCartney would have offered a reasonable settlement, why doesn't she just accept it and get on with her life, then the media would probably leave her alone."


kc said on 01st November ...

"I completely agree with you there bubbles. We are being misinformed. Even the most trusted newspapers and news channels do not give us the full story on these important issues. "


kc said on 01st November ...

"She has a fair point that the press should stop making things up, but she seems quite selfish when she only considers "celebrities" in this debate. The press also print a lot of tripe regarding immigrants and foreign workers, and is very one-sided concerning the Iraq war. It is right to have a petition against the lies that the press publish. We need to think more about the lies that are harming the way that are society are treating each other, instead of how a "celebrity" is being perceived. Who cares what she did or didn't do - I'm sure the majority of the public forget most of what they read in the morning about the likes of her.

Fair enough she has been through it all the past so many years, but if she feels like that WHY did she put herself up for Dancing with the stars in the US? Would she surely not be better off keeping herself out of the limelight a little?"


bubbles said on 01st November ...

"This is an irrelevant individual hounded by a more-or-less irrelevant media machine, better known as the British press. Are we really interested in the whole fiasco? Why do productions such as GMTV provide her with the platform on which to whine? Why am I here, bothering to waste my time and effort talking about it?

I think the really worrying thing here is that, rather than this being confined to tabloid tittle tattle, we are seeing big name press publications dedicate time and space to such 'non-entity' stories - what about the thousands of civilians killed in the conflict in Iraq? What about the ethnic cleansing taking place in Darfur? What about the protests in Burma? It would seen that religion is no longer the 'opium of the people' but rather 'celebrity gossip'..."


ebony said on 01st November ...

"The woman can't win can she? Okay, its clear that she is slightly unhinged, self obsessed and deluded, and yes a lot of what is said about her is probably true. But does she deserve the level of vitriol and loathing that the public and press heap on her? I don't think so.

I struggle with this debate because I find Heather Mills a person who engenders very little good feeling and this makes it difficult to have any sympathy for her. However we should remember she has not committed a crime, she married someone (A Beatle, not a beetle Mr Jimmy Jimmy) had a child and it didn't work out, why does everyone have a go at her for that? And all this talk about multi million pound settlements, as far as I am aware, she hasn't had the settlement yet. And its not as though Paul McCartney wasn't warned about her, why didn't he sort out a pre-nup? If anyone should be taken to task about their behaviour shouldn't it be him - he should really know better!

We should be concerned for this woman's mental health, she is obviously not very well. ..... One last thing, it is the press that continues to call her Heather Mills-McCartney (recognising that the name is more interesting that using her maiden one), she might quite like it too, but I suggest we all stop using it....... in fact, lets stop talking about her altogether."


david said on 01st November ...

"Mishcon de Raya, should take some responsibility for the advice they give deluded and vunerable clients."


Jimmy Jimmy said on 01st November ...

"The thing that she seems to forget is that she is running all over the place asking for sympathy. Something that is going to be in short supply if you have just got a multimillion pound settlement after being married to a national icon for a matter of a few years. The thing to do here surely is to be dignified and keep schtumm.

She has also forgotten that everyone apart for Macca saw this coming; she was never going to become a Linda now was she? The way that she dropped her boyfriend to pursue Macca was testament to everything that has happened since. She made a calculated decision, bag a Beetle and bag fame and fortune. What she got was infamy and a fortune; one out of two is not bad though.

Yes she is universally loathed but there is no smoke without fire. Can anyone think of one person that has the total and consistent bad press that she has had? There is no one and nothing favourable to say about her. Even Bernard Manning had a few fans.

She is not an icon for our times, neither feminist, nor disabled. But when you think about it there should have a well of sympathy for her when she got married, the one legged woman bags her man, she had overcome obstacles to achieve. That did not happen because of one simple fact, she is not and was not a nice person. Its simple Heather that’s why no one likes you.

Has anyone noticed has not dropped her married name?"


t said on 01st November ...

"Surely the press has been exaggerating, but that’s what the press does and that’s what we love… gossip. Heather Mills can not expect the public and the press to like her in the slightest if she marries, divorced and takes such a large amount of money in a short period of time… and then goes around crying about it..."


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