Heather Mills | My Camden

Heather Mills

Profession: Gold digger
Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
Associated with: Paul McCartney

Ferrari then asked: "So now you’re saying your divorce lawyers are lying?"

Heather retorted: "Do you know what, shall we just forget this? Let’s forget it. Just cut him off. He’s a waste of time."

Later Heather launched her new vegan campaign with an appearance at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park.

Heather urges public to help save planet - Nov 19 2007
Heather Mills has called on people to cut down on meat and dairy products to save the planet.

Sir Paul McCartney’s estranged wife - whose campaign will include a speech at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park - says livestock is the second biggest cause of greenhouse gases.

Today (Monday) Heather, 39, called on consumers to adopt more of a plant-based diet. She said animal rights organisation Viva alerted her to the extent of the effect of deforestation and livestock on global warming.

She said: "When (Viva) told me it was 18 per cent, that’s more than all global transport, I was in shock. Aeroplanes only bring 3 per cent, while they are being picked on with taxes."

The former model called on people to "cut down on one or two meat and dairy and fish dishes a week", adding: "I’m not saying people need to go vegan overnight."

Heather said: "We are the only species that drinks another person’s milk, so why aren’t we drinking rat’s milk, or dog’s milk, or cat’s milk, that’s how crazy it is?

"It’s mad that we are having cow’s milk. Even cows don’t drink it after one year but we continue forever."

She said: "As individuals, and hopefully within your family, you can reduce global warming rather than rely on governments who talk and talk but do very little about it."

Heather said: "If we carry on eating 55 billion livestock a year we’re not going to have a planet left."

She also claimed: "If everyone went vegan, which you never know in 20, 30, 40 or 50 years could happen ... there would be no such thing as starvation and famine."

Heather’s TV interviews ’cathartic’ - Nov 9 2007
Heather Mills McCartney has described her impassioned interviews against "lies" in the media as "unbelievably cathartic".

Sir Paul McCartney’s estranged wife, who is locked in divorce negotiations with her husband, attacked the media last week for "pushing her to the edge" and called on the public to stop buying tabloid newspapers in a series of TV interviews.

Speaking on GMTV this morning (Thursday), Heather said she’s received "so much support" for her campaign to take a petition to the European Parliament to strengthen the law against "a specific portion" of the media.

She said: "It’s been unbelievably cathartic. It’s the difference between being in prison and being on parole.

"I’ve had 18 months of the worst press ever and I got the chance to protect myself and my daughter."

She hit back at reports that she’d been unhappy at seeing pictures of Macca kissing married US millionairess Nancy Shevell.

She said: "In that situation with Paul, there was no phone call, there was no tears and tantrums - there was nothing.

"Basically I just said ’I wish you all the best’ and that was it, when we did swap over. It’s none of anybody’s business what happens in Paul’s love life."

And she said her husband hadn’t responded to her recent blitz of interviews.

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Biography

Heather Mills has definitely got one hell of a story, she was born in 1968, her mother left the family home when she nine, leaving Heather to care for her siblings under the watchful eye of an abusive father. Heather ran away from home at thirteen and found herself homeless, living under Waterloo arches for four months.

She was eventually "discovered" and started modelling, it wasn’t long after that at the age of 22, that she moved to Northern Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, for a holiday and eventually ended up moving there to build a new life and become a ski instructor. Whilst out there she witnessed the outbreak of civil war and the effect it had on many of her friends. On her return to England she set up a refugee crisis centre, funded by the modelling work that she was still doing, she continued her charity work over the next two years when tragedy struck, on a visit to the UK.

In August 1993, Heather was involved in a road accident with a police motorcycle. Her injuries included crushed ribs, a punctured lung, and multiple fractures of the pelvis and the loss of her left leg below the knee. Realising her modelling career would now possibly be over, she summoned the press into her hospital room and sold her story.

Through the adjustment of returning to ’normal’ life with one leg, Heather found a practical problem that she felt she could solve. Her residual limb, or stump as she prefers to call it, was fitted with an artificial limb. But due to the nature of the wound changing in shape and size, the prosthetic leg had to be continually replaced, whilst the old leg would be discarded. Heather realised that if the redundant prosthesis would never find another use, there must be literally thousands out there just waiting for a new home. With her experiences in the former Yugoslavia, Heather knew that these redundant limbs would be more than welcome in areas such as the Former Yugoslavia.

Heather instigated a nation-wide appeal for the donation of unwanted prostheses, and then employed the services of the inmates at Brixton prison to dismantle the limbs and make them ready for transport. October 1994, just a year after her accident, the first convoy of artificial limbs and medical equipment left for Zargreb. Arriving at the Institute of Prosthetics in Zargreb the limbs were now ready to be fitted. Over 22,000 amputees and victims of land-mine explosions have been helped since the first Convoy left the U.K.

It was not long after that at the young age of 25 that Heather wrote her biography, whilst most 25 year olds could hardly fill a chapter, Heather had a real story to tell. ’Out on a Limb’ landed straight onto The Times’ best-seller list as well as appearing in the 1997 Reader’s Digest Best non-fiction compilation. The proceeds from the book go to raising money for child amputee war victim’s world-wide (although the most publicised are in the Former Yugoslavia). All Heather’s charity work has funded from her own pocket.

Heather has been given many accolades and awards for her work for charity. Former Prime Minister John Major presented her with the Gold Award for Outstanding Achievement; The Times presented her with their Human Achievement Award, and the British Chamber of Commerce not only named her Outstanding Young Person of the Year, but also named an award after her - the Heather Mills Award. If this was not enough, in 1996 she received a nomination for The Nobel Prize and has since received the 1999 "People of the Year Award", The "Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement 2000 Award", The "Pantene Spirit of Beauty Award" and the "Woman of the Year" by the Blue Drop Group in Sicily as well as lots more.

Heather collected the "REDBROOK Mother & Shakers Award", presented by Hillary Clinton, and she received the Victory Award hosted by the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC.

If that was not enough, Heather has also done a lot of TV work presenting for programmes such as That’s Esther.

In her personal life, she found temporary happiness with ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. Despite some rather obvious objections from Paul’s daughter Stella, the couple married in 2002 and had a daughter together.

In 2006 both Paul and Heather made a joint statement confirming their separation, after Paul McCartney filed for divorce, citing ‘unreasonable behaviour’. What has followed has been a media storm, with Heather at the heart of the controversy.

The main allegations is that she merely married Sir Paul for his money and fame, with British papers suggesting that this could be the biggest divorce settlement ever witnessed. Heather has always denied the allegation of being a ‘gold digger’, claiming that the separation and process of divorce is ‘worse than losing my leg’.

Alongside her threat to sue national papers over ‘false, damaging and immensely upsetting’ reports about the divorce, it has also been reported that Heather has received death threats since splitting with her husband.

In January 2003, a settlement was announced between the two parties, believed to amount to £32 million, plus a gagging order.

November 2007