It’s already promoted in the British press as the most sensational
divorce case since that of Charles and Diana.
Now, locked in a divorce battle with ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney,
Heather Mills (pictured with the Queen at Buckingham Palace) has claimed she’s just like the late Princess of
Wales in the way the media has smeared her name.
Speaking on GMTV this morning, Mills claimed she’s suffered similar treatment as that meted out to
the late Princess in the 1990s as well as Kate McCann, the mother of
the missing four-year-old Madeleine.
Claiming that the media is being stories from "a certain corner", Paul McCartney's estranged wife also suggested she's been hounded by the press in a similar manner as that endured by Diana.
Her voice straining, Mills-McCartney said of the media: "They
make up such lies. They've called me a whore, a golddigger, a
fantasist, a liar, the most unbelievably hurtful things - and I've
stayed quiet for my daughter."
"But my daughter..we've had death threats. I've been close to suicide.
I'm so upset about this. I've had worse press than a paedophile or a
murderer, and I've done nothing but charity for 20 years."
Mills-McCartney says she's launched a petition at the European Parliament in
an attempt to persuade lawmakers to take a harder line on "a specific portion"
of the media.
Speaking amid ongoing debate about the workings of the paparazzi in particular
against the backdrop of the Diana inquest and the recent 'chase' of Prince
William and Kate Middleton, Mills-McCartney said: "I need to get everybody
to petition that they don't want to be lied to any more by the press."
"They want
their children to grow up in a society where press is just and fair and the size
of the lie they print is the size of the apology they have to print."
