Do you remember Heather Mills?

[LucilleBluth]

I have been watching the Beatles documentary and got to thinking about her.

She was in the papers constantly in the 2000s, I remember her being painted as an absolute con artist witch. I googled a few articles about her from the time of the divorce. They are brutal in the misogynistic tone, she’s labelled as a slag, a goer, ex prostitute, you name it.

I don’t think papers write about women in such hash terms anymore. Maybe she was a bit of a twat, whoever married Saint Paul would have suffered at that time I think.

I suppose by AIBU is are the press less misogynistic.

[Sparklingbrook]

She was what my Nan would call an 'interesting character'. I think people remember her for lots of negative reasons. But TBH I've no idea of the positive ones.

Beatrice being 18 is

[AdoptedBumpkin]

It's funny, I was thinking the other day she seems to have disappeared completely.

[Theunamedcat]

🤣 the press are worse look historically diana and Sarah Kate and Meghan same bullshit pitting women against each other diana/Kate destined to be queen therefore saintly sarah/meghan destined to be the "spare" absolutely slaughtered (remember the duchess of pork?) Charlotte Church and the newspapers counting down till she is "legal" 🤮 Katie price raising money for implants by sponsorship in the papers with her tits out similar situation with Sam fox I believe

Newspapers are bottom feeders

[RhondaZ]

@Sparklingbrook

She was what my Nan would call an 'interesting character'. I think people remember her for lots of negative reasons. But TBH I've no idea of the positive ones.

Beatrice being 18 is

I totally forgot they had a child. I've just googled her and she looks like him.

[BeneficiaryMadness]

I have a joke about Heather Mills that you would never get away with these days!

[maddiemookins16mum]

I found her difficult to ‘like’ and can’t even express why. That said, I have a deep held belief that Saint Paul was possibly a complete twonk to her.

[ArblemarchTFruitbat]

Yes - I agree with you about the misogynistic press coverage at the time. This was fuelled by Paul McCartney being a 'national treasure' sort of person, so the press leapt to take his side when the pair divorced. I said at the time, and still think, that as with many divorces, there would've been fault on both sides.

I remember HM going on 'dancing on ice' which I thought was brave.

[Sparklingbrook]

Jonathan Ross said some stuff about her that was a bit much.

[Kendoddsdadsdogsdadsdead]

How odd. I was justbthinking about her the other day for some reason! Think there was someone on TV who looked like her.

She had a terrible time in the press. I didn't really have a view on her as such, but I do remember her being slaughtered by the media.

[Sparklingbrook]

I remember her chucking water over PM's divorce lawyer.

[TSSDNCOP]

I think both of them must look back and think it was a massive error of judgement.

I'm her case because history shows us it's a bad idea to marry a Beatle. The press will always came at you.

In his case because he either ignored or chose not to listen to history.

[Kendoddsdadsdogsdadsdead]

Oh wow. Just googled Beatrice and she is the absolute double of Paul McCartney!

[LizzieSiddal]

Yes the press were dreadful regarding her.

However on a separate note she was a pretty dreadful person. She has been found to have lied on numerous occasions according to the judge at her divorce hearing. She also poured a jug of water over Paul’s lawyer’s head when the judgement was announced. I think that says rather alot about her as a person.

[ParkheadParadise]

@Sparklingbrook

I remember her chucking water over PM's divorce lawyer.

Me too
That's the first thought I had when I opened the thread

[ShirleyPhallus]

Name changed, I was friends with her sister (lost touch now) and met Heather a few times. Plenty nice enough but really thought of herself as a big star.

[ShirleyPhallus]

Oh dear

[Malibuismysecrethome]

I remember her being interviewed and she said that her mum had lost her leg in the same way at a similar age. I remember thinking how terrible that was and then a couple of years later it was revealed that her mum had had a knee operation and hadn’t lost her leg at all. She lied

[user1471457751]

She assaulted her husband's divorce barrister by throwing water over her. Apparently over £20m wasn't enough for her

[SunshineCake1]

@Malibuismysecrethome

I remember her being interviewed and she said that her mum had lost her leg in the same way at a similar age. I remember thinking how terrible that was and then a couple of years later it was revealed that her mum had had a knee operation and hadn’t lost her leg at all. She lied

She also lied and pretended to be a journalist.

[Sparklingbrook]

Has she turned things around? What's she doing now?

[BlueBloodedBlue]

I met her when she and Paul attended a memorial service. There were many, many famous people there (even more celeb and famous than Paul) and she was visibly pissed off that she and Paul weren't the total centre of attention.

[LizzieSiddal]

Has she turned things around? What's she doing now?

She’s hopefully just getting on with her life and is happy. I don’t think being in the lime light made her happy at all.

[Malibuismysecrethome]

Wasn’t it Fiona Shackleton she threw the water over.