Who else sympathises with Heather Mills?

[Elasticwoman]

Just saw an item about her and Macca's divorce hearing today. OF COURSE if you ask a lawyer, he/she will say Heather should have legal representation. They are not going to admit to being useless are they? Another comment about her was that she was limping. Well she does only have one leg!
And why is it on the news at all when the hearing is going to take all week, so there really is no news till the judgment is made.

I like the MacCartney ditties as much as any one but it's no reason to be so biassed against poor Heather after the sad break up of this marriage.

does it matter how much she gets?
she isn't going to get so much money that it makes the slightest difference to his standard of living
she isn't going to get so little that her daughter will suffer or feel a 2nd class citizen in comparison to her other siblings

so what does it matter?
or is it that people just can't bear to see someone else have masses of money they haven't "earned"?

well I have news for you - lots of people have money they haven't earned, whether through inheritance or birth or whatever. So it might stick in the craw a little bit but it doesn't MATTER.

I don't understand what the fascination is. I couldn't care less if she gets £10m or £100 or somewhere in between

OK so would you feel the same if the things that he has done within the marriage are not just being a primadonna or PITA.

Pretty much, PPH.

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She didn't just 'pretend to be a journalist'. She stole the woman's identity and passed off her victim's work as her own. That's very serious for anyone, but particularly for a feature writer where your byline is your credibility.

She's a liar and a fantasist. Who knows what her marriage was really like - but it's bloody certain you can't trust a word the woman says about it.

Hmmm. Good question.

The thing is we don't know what went on. She says, he says etc.

None of it needs to be published for their child to read though, does it?

actually what the marriage was like is completely irrelevant to the financial split. unless he actually tried to kill her the conduct of both parties is completely irrelevant. actually even if he did try and kill her it would be pretty irrelevant unless he injured her so badly she had ongoing additional financial needs.

it is just about what is fair for her to receive and more importantly, what is necessary for the welfare of Beatrice. C'est tout

Of couse, PPH. The financial stuff just works on a formula.

well no not exactly, there is no formula
but parties conduct is generally irrelevant

Isn't it X amount for amount of years in marriage, age/needs of children etc etc?

Must be difficult for courts to weigh emotional stuff as both parties will obviously have different versions, unless there is proof.

nope
done entirely on the facts of each individual case

Anyone heard of 'it's as broad as it's long'? My brother says that all the time.

(just in relation to the random sayings thrown in earlier)

I still don't know why she's so hated? The press are slaughtering her at the moment. So she lied about the past and hasn't heard of the Beatles ... ummm what else?

I also wish I'd never heard of Sting.

I'm not mad on Sir Paul either. He's so self-satisfied and baggy-faced. And he does that horrible wobble with his head when he sings. he's done it ever since he was in that famous band a long time ago ... What were they called again? I've never heard anything by them ...

I remember watching an interview with her and she said that if he had no money, she would still have fallen in love with him[ROFLMHO]. She said she had no interest in his money. She then said that she had never heard of the Beatles until she met him.
Considering she was a model, rubbing shoulders with slebs, that is a load of .......

To call her a fantasist would be a compliment imho.

As for her bleeding heart diatribe against the meedja, why does she court them? Why does she turn up to court with her own meedja entourage?

Hopefully, when this sordid episode is all over, she will disappear back to oblivion where she belongs because as far as I can see, the only talent she has is for self-delusion.

I don't know. What can you really glean about two people in a marriage from a load of tabloid articles? It's possible to get an impression of what's going on, but that's all, surely? My impression of Heather is that she is power/money hungry and extremely manipulative. My impression of Paul Mc is that he is not a very nice man (I have always had this impression of him, though, long before Heather came on the scene). No way of knowing if I'm right, though!

The NOTW on Sunday refers to her as the "one legged former hooker" which did make me ROFL

"it is so not the point that Sir Paul is not a binman. We marry some one for their whole persona, of which their status and way of making money are two aspects. I don't think I would have got together with a binman myself - does that make me a scheming freeloader or prostitute? My dh doesn't think so, so I guess I don't really need NAB's opinion on that."

Elasticwoman What I meant was I doubt very much she would have married if he hadn't have been Sir Paul McCartney. I was not saying people are freeloaders or prostitutes. I am saying she married him for other reasons. If she wasn't interested in the ££££ why is she going to court. I doubt very much it isn't just to see the child is okay.

IMO Heather comes across as a hard woman who is also a fantasist. Not very likeable at all.

However, there are not many women on, on having an accident where they lost their leg, would think, bollocks to this, it wil not impair my life, and carry on regardless, bagging several good looking boyfriends in the process before ending up with Paul McCartney.

She also got off her arse and did a significant amount of work for landmine charities. And to be honest I expect that this was not done for purely magnanimous reasons, but for publicity, self promototion and the fact she could 'hitch' on the back of Princess Diana's work in this field.

I do have a (albeit grudging) respect for her in this. And I think the villificatiopn she has got from the press is disgusting. Good on her really for having the balls to fight.

left out my point that the fact that even though the work she did with land mine charities was self promoting, the fact is she did raise significant publicity and funds for the cause.

A lot of people do charity work and don't bleat about it or expect to be treated like saints.

She comes across as being unhinged.

Whether she actually is or whether the media skew it to look like that to favour the saintly Sir Paul, I can't work out.

I wish he'd stop doing hippy V signs though when he knows he's having his photo done. Highly annoying.

I think she thought that marrying PM would gain her notariety. And then when it all went wrong and he filed for divorce because of her unreasonable behavior, she thought she'd try and gain the sympathy vote and cry domestic violence. After all, there's nothing like portraying a man as a wife beater to turn people against him is there? Except Heather's reputation as a fantasist and a bit of a nutter went before her and she just fell from grace even more.

After all, Paul McCartney didn't have a reputation as a wife beater during his 40 ofd year marriage to Linda did he? but heather did have a reputation for being a nutter before she married him.

I had no sympathy for her and I hope she doesn't get a penny - I hope he gives it all to their daughter.
I know someone who's brother worked for M and he said that heather mills was a vile, rude, obnoxious woman who spoke down to everyone.