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Heather Mills hits out at the tabloid press and talks of having been "close to suicide"
Heather attacks smears
In a sensational interview with GMTV, Heather Mills McCartney accused a "certain corner'' today of feeding spin to the media to smear her.
Sir Paul McCartney's estranged wife, who is locked in divorce negotiations with her husband, also launched a fierce attack on the media for "pushing her to the edge'' and called on the public to stop buying tabloid newspapers.
She compared the media's treatment of her to that of Kate McCann and Princess Diana, and said she had received death threats and been "close to suicide''.
At one point she appeared to break down, later apologising for becoming upset and saying: "What are we doing as a nation buying these newspapers? We need to force a change as a responsible nation.''
Mills McCartney said the only respite she has enjoyed from continual media intrusion was when she was in the US.
"I would live in America in two seconds, but I live here to keep my daughter close to her father,'' she said. "You have no idea how much I have done to compromise.''
She produced a large cuttings folder full of newspaper stories about her - which she numbered at 4,000.
The show played video footage filmed by the ex-Beatle's estranged wife over recent months showing photographers pursuing her.
Death threats
"I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person should anything happen to me, so if you top me off it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out,'' she said.
"There is so much fear from a certain party of the truth coming out that lots of things have been put out and done, so the police came round and said 'you have had serious death threats from an underground movement'.
"That means my daughter's life is at risk, because she's with me all the time.''
Despite this, Mills McCartney claimed, she has never phoned 999, instead using the non-emergency number to contact police.
She placed responsibility for the death threats clearly with the media.
"A certain part of the tabloid media created such a hate campaign against me it put my life and my daughter's life at risk,'' she said, choking back sobs.
"That's why I considered killing myself.''
Sensational claims
The most sensational claims made during Mills McCartney's acrimonious break-up with Sir Paul came in an extraordinary document widely believed to have been leaked to the media by the Mills McCartney camp.
The document - which she denies leaking - made a series of remarkable claims about the ex-Beatle's behaviour during their five-year marriage.
There were also claims that Sir Paul changed the locks at the marital home, froze her bank account and removed £10 million-worth of paintings from her house.
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