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:''For the Private Eye journalist see [[Heather Mills (journalist)]].''
{{Infobox Person
| name = Heather Anne Mills
| other_names =
| image = HeatherMills1.jpg
| caption =Heather Mills
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|1|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Aldershot]], [[Hampshire]], [[England]]
| spouse = Alfie Karmal (1989–1991) <br />[[Paul McCartney]] (2002–2008)<br />
| children = Beatrice Milly McCartney
| networth = [[Pound Sterling|£]]24.3M+ (estimated)
| relations =
}}
'''Heather Anne Mills''' (born [[12 January]] [[1968]]) is an [[English people|English]] campaigner and former [[model (person)|model]], who is best known as the former wife of musician [[Paul McCartney]].
Mills started her own model agency in 1986. On [[8 August]] [[1993]], Mills was knocked down by a police motorbike and suffered serious injuries, including losing her left leg below the knee.
Mills met McCartney at the [[Pride of Britain Awards|Pride of Britain]] charity event in April 1999, and they were married on [[11 June]] [[2002]]. Mills gave birth to Beatrice Milly McCartney on [[28 October]] [[2003]], but announced her separation from McCartney in 2006, which led to a highly publicised and acrimonious divorce battle. Mills still works on behalf of numerous campaigns, including aid for [[amputee]]s, [[animal rights]], and the banning of [[landmines]].
==Early life==
Mills was born in [[Aldershot]], [[Hampshire]], to John "Mark" Francis Mills (an ex-British paratrooper) and his wife, Beatrice Mary Finlay; the daughter of a colonel in the British Army.<ref name="KarmalMarriage">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/heathermills.html |title=Heather Mills Profile |publisher=UGO Entertainment |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> The family spent some time in Libanus, near [[Brecon]], in mid-Wales,<ref name="AmazonBookFirstPage">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.amazon.com/Single-Step-Heather-Mills-McCartney/dp/0446531650 |title=A Single Step |publisher=Warner Books |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref><ref name="MillsVivaInterview">{{cite web |first=Juliet |last=Gellatley |url=http://www.viva.org.uk/celebs/heather_interview.html |title=Heather Mills - exclusive Viva! interview |publisher=[[Viva!]] |date=[[2008-04-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> and then moved north to the town of [[Washington, Tyne and Wear]] (when Mills was six-years-old) and then to Cockshott Farm, in [[Rothbury]], although Mills attended Usworth School in Washington, Tyne and Wear.<ref name="BNetIndependentArticle"/><ref name="SecretsAndLies"/> Mills claimed to have been kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a swimming pool attendant when she was eight-years-old, although Margaret Ambler, who was actually kidnapped and sexually abused by the same swimming pool attendant, alleged that Mills' claims were "nothing what she made it out to be".<ref name="BBCBiog"/> As Mills' claims had caused Ambler deep discomfort by bringing the incident to national attention, Ambler sued for breach of privacy, and accepted an [[legal settlement|out-of-court settlement]] from Mills.<ref name="BNetIndependentArticle">{{cite web |first=Andrew |last=Clennell |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030510/ai_n12684231 |title=Heather Mills faces legal action over paedophile claims |publisher=[[The Independent]] |date=[[2003-05-10]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref><ref name="WhoIsMills">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/article/2186/who-is-heather-mills/ |title=Who Is Heather Mills? |publisher=[[NBC Universal, Inc.]] |date=[[2007-10-30]] |accessdate=2008-07-12}}</ref>
Mills' mother left home when Mills was nine-years-old, which left Mills, her older brother Shane, and her younger sister, Fiona, in the care of their father.<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/><ref name="BBCBiog">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2031333.stm |title=Heather Mills Can't Buy Me Love |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2002-06-07]] |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref> Fiona Mills said: "Our family were always short of money and our father demanded that we find food and clothes so we turned to shoplifting, learnt to hide from the bailiffs and became experts at domestic duties. I’m not ashamed to say that we were forced to steal because when you are a young child, you’d rather do that than face a beating from your father".<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/> Mills' father disputed his daughters' allegations that he was violent towards them, saying that Mills has a "damaged personality" and is living in a "confused fantasy world".<ref name="WhatReallyHappened">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.channel4.com/video/heather-mills-what-really-happened/ |title=All the best bits from Heather Mills: What Really Happened |publisher=[[Channel 4]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> Mills later wrote that she often stole food from supermarkets as a child: "By ten I was an old hand. [[Stealing|Pinching]] food was really quite easy I discovered" (in 2006, Mills visited the Sainsburys store in her home town and was refused entry by a member of staff because she had once been caught shoplifting there).<ref name="SupermarketBan">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-407025/Heathers-supermarket-shoplifting-shame.html |title=Heather's supermarket shoplifting shame |publisher=[[Daily Mail]] |date=[[2006-09-27]] |accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref>
When her father was jailed for 18 months after being convicted of [[fraud]], Mills left home with her sister to live with her mother and partner (''[[Crossroads (TV series)|Crossroads]]'' actor Charles Stapley) in Clapham, London,<ref name="BBCBiog"/><ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/><ref name="PorkyTest"/> and her brother went to [[Brighton]] to live with his grandparents.<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"> At the age of 15, Mills claims that she ran away to join a funfair, saying she then lived "in a cardboard box" under [[Waterloo Station]] for four months, although Mills' school records indicate that she and her sister were enrolled at Usworth comprehensive in Tyne and Wear until April 1983, and then at Hydeburn comprehensive in Clapham on [[6 June]] [[1983]], where they both stayed until [[2 July]] [[1984]].<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/> Stapely denies this, saying that Mills occasionally left home for a weekend to travel with a young man who was working for a funfair in London.<ref name="PorkyTest"/> Mills wrote that the owner of a jewellery shop in Clapham gave her a job on Saturdays, but Jim Guy (the owner of Penrose Jewellers) later stated: "Everything she wrote about me was lies, I never gave her a job; she just hung around and made tea. She told me her father was dead. The only thing that was true was she nicked [stole] stuff from the shop".<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/> Mills admitted that she had stolen some gold chains and sold them to buy a [[moped]], and when Guy reported the theft, Mills was put on [[probation]].<ref name="BBCBiog"/> Mills and her mother reconciled in 1989, but her mother died shortly after, during surgery for a minor operation.<ref name="MirrorLiesMills">{{cite web |first=Jon |last=Clements |url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/tm_headline=can-we-believe-heather-this-time-&method=full&objectid=17955608&siteid=94762-name_page.html |title=Can we believe Heather this time? |publisher=[[Daily Mirror]] |date=[[2006-10-19]] |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref> Mills then worked at a cocktail bar, a casino, and a sunbed salon,<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/> but with the financial assistance of Alfie Karmal (a sales manager of a catering company) Mills set up her own model agency in 1986.<ref name="BBCBiog"/> During this period she took part in a photoshoot for a picture-only German [[sex education]] manual called, ''Die Freuden der Liebe'' (''The Joys of Love'') in which she was photographed simulating sex with a male model, and also modelled for [[full-frontal nudity|full-frontal nude]] photographs.<ref name="Pageantjudge">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1396085.php/Pageant_judge_Heather_Mills |title=Pageant judge Heather Mills |publisher=M&C |date=[[2008-03-17]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref><ref name="ExplicitPhotos">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1378167.php/Heather_Mills_explicit_photos |title=Heather Mills' explicit photos |publisher=M&C |date=[[2007-12-03]] |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref> On [[6 May]] [[1989]], Mills married Karmal, who had two sons from a previous marriage. The couple were divorced in 1991.<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2"/>
===Accident and amputees===
[[Image:Mines 501556 fh000026.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Anti-personnel mine]]s, which Mills campaigns against]]
While married, Mills suffered two [[ectopic pregnancies]],<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/> so Karmal paid for Mills to go on holiday to Croatia with his children and ex-wife (with whom Mills had become friends) in 1990,<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt3">{{cite web |first=Russell |last=Miller |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article392048.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3 |title=Investigation: The girl can't help it (p3) |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2004-11-28]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> but Mills ended up living with her ski instructor, Milos Pogacar, shortly before the [[Croatian War of Independence|Croatian War]] began.<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/><ref name="MilosReunion">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20070116/4166/heather-mills-has-birthday-reunion-with-ex-boyfriend/ |title=Heather Mills has birthday reunion with ex-boyfriend |publisher=Fametastic |date=[[2007-01-16]] |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> The [[BBC]] reported that Mills then set up a [[refugee]] crisis centre in London, and helped 20 people to escape the war. Mills drove by herself to deliver donations to Croatia, taking modelling assignments in Austria on the way to pay for the trip.<ref name="BBCBiog"/> On [[8 August]] [[1993]], Mills was standing at the corner of De Vere Gardens and Kensington Road, London, with her boyfriend at the time, Rafaelle Mincione. She stepped into the road and was knocked down by a police motorcycle, which was racing to an emergency.<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt1">{{cite web |first=Russell |last=Miller |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article392048.ece?token=null&offset=0 |title=Investigation: The girl can't help it (p1) |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2004-11-28]] |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref> Mills suffered crushed [[rib]]s, a punctured [[lung]], and the loss of her left leg below the knee; a metal plate was later inserted into her [[pelvis]].<ref name="TransWorldNewsRef">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=25608&cat=2 |title=Heather Mills faces “serious operation” after a metal plate in her pelvis broke |publisher=TransWorld News |date=[[2007-10-18]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref> Mills was awarded [[£]]200,000 by the police authority as recompense for her injuries.<ref name="WasteOfMoney">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/711402.stm |title=Model's damages 'waste of money' |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2000-04-13]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> After the accident, she sold her story to the ''[[News of the World]]'', and gave other interviews, saying she earned £180,000.<ref name=Judgment/> She used the money to set up the Heather Mills Health Trust which delivers [[prosthetic]] limbs to people, particularly children, who have had limbs amputated after stepping on landmines<ref name="BBCBiog"/> (Mills often shows people her prosthetic leg; once taking it off during an interview on the American talk show ''[[Larry King Live]]'', in 2002).<ref name="LarryKingLegOff">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2386095.stm |title=Mills removes false leg on live TV |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2002-11-01]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref>
As her leg was taking too long to heal, Mills booked herself into the Hippocrates Institute in Florida, which put her on a raw food [[vegan]] diet, using wheat grass and garlic poultices to heal her wound.<ref name="MillsVivaInterview"/> Mills' prosthetic leg had to be replaced on a regular basis because the size of the amputated stump kept changing as it healed, so Mills had the idea to collect 4,500 discarded prosthetic limbs for amputees in Croatia, persuading the [[Brixton (HM Prison)|Brixton prison]] governor to get inmates to dismantle and pack them before being transported.<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt1"/><ref name="NormanPhillipsOrganisation">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.normanphillips.co.uk/heather_mills_mccartney_bio.htm |title=Heather Mills McCartney Biography |publisher=Norman Phillips Organisation |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref> The first convoy of limbs arrived in [[Zagreb]] in October 1994; 14 months after her accident. Mills travelled with the convoy to film interviews with some of the recipients for the ''[[Good Morning with Anne and Nick]]'' daytime TV show.<ref name="MillsSiteLimbs">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.heathermills.org/charity_croatia.php |title=Convoy to Croatia |publisher=Heather Mills |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> Unfortunately, Croatian citizens were already supplied with prosthetic limbs by the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance, which paid for the fitting of limbs and rehabilitation of patients.<ref name="GirlCantHelpIt1"/>
With the help of a [[ghostwriter]], Mills wrote a book about her experience: ''Out on a Limb'' (1995) which was republished in America as ''A Single Step'' (2002).<ref name=Judgment/><ref name="GirlCantHelpIt2">{{cite web |first=Russell |last=Miller |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article392048.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2 |title=Investigation: The girl can't help it (p2) |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2004-11-28]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> Mills handed all the proceeds from the book to [[Adopt-A-Minefield]], of which Mills is a patron.<ref name="SecretsAndLies"/> Mills got engaged to documentary filmmaker Chris Terrill in 1999, after 12 days in Cambodia where they were making a film about landmines.<ref name="FormerMrsMills1">{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Terrill |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article722871.ece?token=null&offset=0 |title=Focus: Heathered - by the former 'Mr Mills' (p1) |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2006-05-21]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> Mills ended their relationship five days before their planned wedding day,<ref name="FormerMrsMills2">{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Terrill |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article722871.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2 |title=Focus: Heathered - by the former 'Mr Mills' (p2) |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2006-05-21]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> later telling friends in the media that she had called the wedding off because Terrill was both [[homosexual|gay]], an [[MI6]] agent, and that his mission was to undermine her anti-landmine work.<ref name="FormerMrsMills3">{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Terrill |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article722871.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3 |title=Focus: Heathered - by the former 'Mr Mills' (p3) |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2006-05-21]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> Terrill had once told Mills that he had been interviewed by the intelligence services when he was thinking of a career with the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|Foreign Office]], but later said, "I soon realised that Heather had a somewhat elastic relationship with the truth, which she was able to stretch impressively sometimes".<ref name="PorkyTest">{{cite web |first=Natalie |last=Clarke |url= http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21372983-5001026,00.html |title= Heather Mills porky test |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=[[2007-03-13]] |accessdate=2008-07-12}}</ref>
==McCartney==
[[Image:Paul McCartney on stage in Prague.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Mills met McCartney in 1999, were married in 2002, and divorced in 2008]]
Mills met Paul McCartney at the Pride of Britain charity event in April 1999, where she presented an award for courage, and made an appeal on behalf of the Heather Mills Health Trust.<ref name="StandingThere">{{cite web |first=Robin |last=Young |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article989721.ece |title=I saw her standing there, McCartney explains on TV |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2000-10-21]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> McCartney also presented an award dedicated to his late wife, [[Linda McCartney]], and was introduced to McCartney by newspaper editor [[Piers Morgan]].<ref name="WhoIsMills"> McCartney talked to Mills about donating to her charity—later giving her £150,000.<ref name=Judgment/><ref name="OutOnALimb2">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article392048.ece?token=null&offset=24 |title=Life and Style 2|publisher=[[The Times]] |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref> After subsequent meetings during 2001, McCartney proposed on [[22 July]] [[2001]], giving Mills a [[diamond]] and [[sapphire]] ring he had purchased in [[Jaipur]], India, while they were both there on holiday.<ref name=Judgment/><ref name="PaulProposed">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1458958.stm |title=Sir Paul: How I proposed |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2001-07-22]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> They were married on [[11 June]] [[2002]]; four years after McCartney's first wife, [[Linda McCartney]], had died of [[breast cancer]]. Their wedding was an elaborate ceremony at [[Castle Leslie]] (once the home of [[Shane Leslie]]) in the village of Glaslough in [[County Monaghan]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. After often denying that she was pregnant, Mills gave birth to Beatrice Milly McCartney, on [[28 October]] [[2003]], who was named after Mills' mother, Beatrice, and McCartney's Aunt Milly.<ref name="BeatriceNamedAfter">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/24/entertainment/main555431.shtml |title=Baby Beatrice A Joy For McCartneys |publisher=[[CBS]] |date=[[2003-10-31]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref>
After some time apart, Mills and McCartney announced their separation in 2006, leading to an acrimonious divorce battle. Mills had asked for £125 million, but had been offered £15.8 million by McCartney.<ref name="DivorceSettlementIndependent">{{cite web |first=Stephen Howard |last=Jan Colley |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mills-wins-pound24m-in-mccartney-divorce-deal-796989.html |title=Mills wins £24m in McCartney divorce deal |publisher=[[The Independent]] |date=[[2008-03-17]] |accessdate=2008-07-12}}</ref> Mills was eventually awarded £24.3 million ($48.7 million) in March 2008, plus payments of £35,000 ($70,000) per annum, and nanny and school costs for Beatrice.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Mills awarded £24.3m settlement|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7300931.stm|work= |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=2008-03-17|accessdate=2008-03-17 }}</ref> In his judgment, [[Judge|Mr Justice]] Bennett described Mills as a "kindly person" who argued her case with a "steely, yet courteous, determination", but concluded that much of her [[evidence]] was, "not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid", and that overall she was an "unimpressive witness".<ref name="Judgment">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2008/401.html |title=England and Wales High Court (Family Division) Decisions |publisher=Bail II |date=[[2008-03-17]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> Emotions reportedly ran high during the hearing, to the point where Mills poured a jug of water over the head of McCartney's [[solicitor]], [[Fiona Shackleton]].<ref name="SoakedLawyer">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7303266.stm |title=Mills soaked McCartney's lawyer |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2008-03-18]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> The [[Law and divorce around the world#England and Wales|divorce]] was granted on [[12 May]] [[2008]].<ref name="BBCJudgeends">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7395872.stm |title=Judge ends McCartney's marriage |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2008-05-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref> The judge further ruled that the preliminary divorce decree could be finalized in six weeks, and accepted McCartney's assets as being £450 million, and not £800 million, as had been reported.<ref name="ReutersDivorceOver">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKL122579520080512 |title=McCartney and Mills granted divorce |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=[[2008-05-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref><ref name="800Million">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-386557/McCartney-faces-200m-divorce-battle.html |title=McCartney faces £200m divorce battle |publisher=[[The Daily Mail]] |date=[[2006-04-18]] |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref>
==Activism==
{{see|Animal liberation movement|Animal rights|Factory farming|Seal hunting|Vegetarianism|Veganism}}
[[Image:Seal.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Mills campaigns against seals being hunted for their [[fur|pelts]], [[blubber]] for oil, and as meat for pet food]]
In 2005, Mills became a patron of the British animal rights organisation [[Viva!]], and the [[Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation]], which are both run by [[Juliet Gellatley]].<ref name="VivaCrates">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/pigs/msdoa.html |title=Day of Action Against M&S’ Use of the Farrowing Crate |publisher=[[Viva!]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref> In 2006, Mills and Gellatley attended a debate on fur at the [[Oxford Union]], where Mills presented a video depicting the skinning of a dog.<ref>'Viva! Life' 'Heather Mills McCartney and Paul McCartney, A Statement by Juliet Gellatley, founder and director of Viva! and the Vegetarians and Vegan Foundation', issue 32, Summer 2006.</ref> Mills posed with her dog in an anti-fur advertisement for [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]] (PETA) which read: "If you wouldn't wear your dog, please don't wear fur".<ref name="FurIsDead">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.furisdead.com/feat-heathermills.asp |title=Heather Mills McCartney Says, “If You Wouldn’t Wear Your Dog ... Please Don’t Wear Any Fur” in New PETA Ad Campaign |publisher=Fur is Dead |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref>
In March 2006, Mills and McCartney travelled to [[Canada]] to bring attention to the country's annual [[Seal hunting|seal hunt]]. Sponsored by the [[Humane Society of the United States]], they complained that the hunt was inhumane, and called on the Canadian government to put an end to it. Their arrival on the floes sparked much attention in [[Newfoundland and Labrador]], where 90 percent of the sealers live. [[Newfoundland and Labrador]]'s Premier, [[Danny Williams (politician)|Danny Williams]], debated the issue with them on ''[[Larry King Live]]''.<ref name="LarryKingLiveTranscript">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/03/lkl.01.html |title=Interview With Paul McCartney, Heather Mills McCartney |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=[[2006-03-03]] |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref> Mills joined a Viva! film team at a pig farm in [[Somerset]], in February 2007, to publicise the use of restrictive [[Gestation crate|farrowing crates]], which are used for sows who are suckling piglets.<ref name="PigFarmRaid">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-442378/Heather-Mills-pig-farm-raid-highlight-cruelty.html |title=Heather Mills in pig farm raid to highlight 'cruelty' |publisher=[[Daily Mail]] |date=[[2007-03-15]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> A video of the investigation was made available on the Internet.<ref name="FarrowingCrates">{{cite web |first= |last= |url= http://www.viva.org.uk/heathervideo/index.html |title= Heather Mills Investigates the Farrowing Crate |publisher=[[Viva!]] |date=[[2007-03-15]] |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref>
In 2007, Mills' relationship with PETA ended when McCartney's daughter, [[Mary McCartney|Mary]], said she would not continue to take photographs for the organisation if Mills was involved with them.<ref name="PETAKicksHeatherOut">{{cite web |first=Richard |last=Johnson |url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm |title=PETA does without Heather |publisher=[[New York Post]] |date=[[2007-03-17]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref><ref name="CharityDropsHeather">{{cite web |first=Richard |last=Eden |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1541536/Charity-drops-Heather-Mills-for-a-McCartney.html |title=Charity drops Heather Mills for a McCartney |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=[[2007-02-04]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> As the McCartney family had been supporters of PETA for many years, a PETA representative told the ''[[New York Post]]'': "Heather's exposé of the [[China|Chinese]] fur industry remains one of most popular videos on our site, but we don't have any imminent campaigns planned with her".<ref name="NYPWithoutHeather">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm |title=PETA Does Without Heather |publisher=[[New York Post]] |date=[[2007-03-17]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref><ref name="CharityDropsHeather">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1541536/Charity-drops-Heather-Mills-for-a-McCartney.html |title=Charity drops Heather Mills for a McCartney |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=[[2007-04-02]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref>
On [[19 November]], [[2007]], Mills spoke in [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]] in London, arguing in favour of [[veganism]] on the grounds that [[livestock]] create more [[carbon]] emissions than transport: "Eighty percent of [[global warming]] comes from livestock and [[deforestation]]. I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight. But if they stop drinking their cows' [[milk]] [[latte]]s, maybe this sort of thing won't have to happen".<ref name="VIVADropsHeather">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=112 |title=Heather’s “Drink Rats’ Milk” Claim is Wilful Misreporting, says Viva! |publisher=Viva |date=[[2007-11-20]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref> Mills' suggestion that human beings should stop drinking cow's milk and try other kinds of non-animal milk was misreported by some newspapers as a recommendation to drink rat's milk: "You have 25 other alternate milks in many health stores and supermarkets. It's kind of bizarre. Why don't we drink rat's milk or dog's milk or cat's milk? You know, there are many, many other options". This led ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', among others, to report the press conference under the headline, "Drink Rats' Milk, says Heather Mills".<ref name="DrinkRatsMilkHeather">{{cite web |first= |last=|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569871/Drink-rats%27-milk%2C-says-Heather-Mills.html |title=Drink Rats' Milk, says Heather Mills |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=[[2007-11-21]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref>
In 2008, an old video surfaced of Mills wearing a [[mink]] coat she had owned in 1989, but explained to reporters that she had bought it years before becoming involved in animal rights organisations or [[vegetarianism]].<ref name="MillsFurShock">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Heather+Mills-14427.html |title=Heather Mills' fur shock |publisher=Female First |date=[[2007-12-03]] |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref> Although she had separated from McCartney, Mills said: "It's only since I met Paul [McCartney] that I really got to understand how vegetarianism not only benefits your health massively but also makes a huge difference to the planet, to animals, and to feeding the world".<ref>Viva!Life, Issue 29, Summer 2005.</ref>
==Public image and criticism==
Mills' relationship with McCartney triggered considerable media interest,<ref name="McCartneyAttacksCritics">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4239341.stm |title=McCartney attacks wife's critics |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2008-04-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref><ref name="McCartneyDefendsMills">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3491927.stm |title=McCartney 'defends wife Heather'|publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2008-04-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-05}}</ref> but after her divorce, the attitude of the British media was hostile, as Mills was accused of embellishing her life story, being a former [[prostitute]], a [[shoplifter]], and of having married McCartney for his money.<ref name="WhatReallyHappened">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.channel4.com/video/heather-mills-what-really-happened/catchup.html?intcmp=homepage_box5 |title=Heather Mills: What Really Happened |publisher=[[Channel 4]] |date=[[2008-04-23]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> Mills frequently accuses the press of misquoting her, and of using material out of context to give a negative impression of her, telling the ''[[Evening Standard]]'' that the claims that she had married McCartney for his money were more hurtful than losing her leg.<ref name="LimbLossWorse">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6171910.stm |title=Mills: Split worse than limb loss |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2006-11-22]] |accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref>
Mills has been accused by several newspapers of having embellished her life story: Journalist [[Heather Mills (journalist)|Heather Mills]], then at ''[[The Observer]]'', accused Mills of impersonating her for over a year in the late 1990s, showing people cuttings of articles the journalist had written.<ref name="MillsStoleMyName">{{cite web |first=Ben |last=Hoyle |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article609895.ece |title=Heather Mills stole my name, says journalist |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2006-10-23]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> The BBC reported a claim from Stapely (her mother's partner) that Mills had not run away from home as a teenager, as she had earlier claimed.<ref name="BBCBiog"/> Stapely also refuted Mills' claim that her mother had nearly lost a leg in a car crash, and her almost severed leg "was only hanging on by a tiny flap of skin and flesh... miraculously the surgeons managed to insert a metal plate and reattach it".<ref name="PorkyTest"/> Stapely said that Mills' mother had suffered a leg injury after a car crash, but recovered and was "a keen tennis player".<ref name="PorkyTest"/>
Mills also claimed that she had once been asked to stand for for parliament by the three main political parties,<ref name="SecretsAndLies"/> and had been offered a [[peerage]] in 2001 (to become Baroness Mills) by the then [[British Prime Minister]], [[Tony Blair]], and a certain "Lord Macdonald". An [[ITV]] documentary (''McCartney vs McCartney: The Ex Files'') interviewed three Lord Macdonalds, but not one of them could remember ever meeting Mills.<ref name="Peerage">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/heather-claims-blair-offered-her-peerage/2008/03/26/1206207163866.html |title=I was offered peerage: Mills |publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=[[2008-04-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> Mills claimed to have been awarded the ''Outstanding Young Person of the Year'' award by the British [[Chamber of Commerce]], but did not challenge newspapers after they discovered there was no such award.<ref name="SecretsAndLies">{{cite web |first=Paul |last=Vallely |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/heather-mills-mccartney-secrets-and-lies-478927.html |title=Heather Mills McCartney: Secrets and lies |publisher=[[The Independent]] |date=[[2006-05-20]] |accessdate=2008-07-12}}</ref>
In 2006, [[Adnan Khashoggi]] and [[Kerry Packer]] were named in ''[[The News of the World]]'' as former clients of Mills when she allegedly worked as an [[Call girl|escort]].<ref name="PackerMillsMoney">{{cite web |first=Ean |last=Higgins |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23589000-2,00.html |title=James Packer denies Heather Mills was Kerry's callgirl |publisher=News |date=[[2008-04-24]] |accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref> The newspaper provided an [[affidavit]] from escort Denise Hewitt, who said she worked with Mills providing a sexual service for "Saudi royalty", and that Mills boasted of earning up to £10,000 in a single night.<ref name="MillsPaidThousands">{{cite web |first=Matt |last=Born |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-390174/Heather-high-class-hooker-paid-thousands.html |title='Heather was a high-class hooker paid thousands' |publisher=[[The Daily Mail]] |date=[[2006-06-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> To substantiate its claims, ''The News of the World'' produced a man named Abdul Khoury, who was Khashoggi's personal secretary from 1977 to 2005. Khoury affirmed the veracity of reports of Mills's providing erotic services to Khashoggi. ''The Daily Mail'' further produced accounts of other friends of Mills's affirming that she had worked as an escort on other occasions.<ref name="NalkedAndUnabashed">{{cite web |first=Laura |last=Collins |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-390135/Heather-just-stood-naked-unashamed-unabashed.html |title=Heather just stood there, naked, unashamed and unabashed |publisher=[[The Daily Mail]] |date=[[2008-04-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> Through her lawyers, Mills denied ever having been an escort, and said she would sue as soon as her divorce was concluded.<ref name="MillsToSueNewspaper">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/06/13/mills-mccartney-tabloids.html |title=Mills McCartney to sue over 'defamatory' allegations |publisher=[[CBC]] |date=[[2006-06-13]] |accessdate=2008-07-15}}</ref> In October 2006, Mills announced her intention to sue ''[[The Daily Mail]]'', ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]'', and the ''Evening Standard''.<ref name="DeniesPaperClaims">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5069220.stm |title=Heather Mills denies paper claims |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2006-06-11]] |accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref><ref name="LadyMuccaSues">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6081050.stm |title=Lady McCartney to sue newspapers |publisher= |date=[[2006-10-24]] |accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref> ''The Sun'', which regularly refers to Mills as "Mucca"—a play on McCartney's nickname "Macca"—responded by asking her to "tick the boxes" on a series of allegations the newspaper had made, stating, "It is not clear what exactly she plans to sue us about". Underneath the open questions, ''The Sun'' listed six allegations about her, with a blank box beside each one. The words beside the boxes read: "Hooker, Liar, [[Pornography|Porn]] Star, [[Fantasy (psychology)|Fantasist]], Trouble Maker, Shoplifter".<ref name="SunTurnsUpHeat">{{cite web |first=Tara |last=Conlan |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/oct/25/pressandpublishing.privacy1 |title=Sun turns up the heat on Mills McCartney |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |date=[[2006-10-26]] |accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref>
[[Image:The Sun Mills Questions.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[The Sun]]'s question box asking Mills to deny what the newspaper had reported]]
In December 2006, Mills told the [[BBC]] that she had received death threats, and on [[December 17]], [[2006]], police stated that a "non-specific threat" had been made to her safety.<ref name="PoliceThreats">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6187753.stm |title=Police brief Mills over 'threat' |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2006-12-17]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> This led to more criticism that Mills was calling out the emergency services too often. In March 2007, Kevin Moore, Chief Superintendent of [[Sussex Police]], said that Mills was running "the risk of being treated as the little boy who cried wolf", and added, "We do have to respond to a disproportionate high volume of calls from Heather Mills McCartney because of the situations she finds herself in, and this is regrettable as it takes officers away from other policing matters". Mills responded that the police had told her to contact them whenever she was being [[harassment|harassed]].<ref name="PoliceCalls">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6454163.stm |title=Police criticise Mills' 999 calls |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2007-03-15]] |accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref><ref name="DeathThreats">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6197754.stm |title=Mills' fear over 'death threats' |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2006-12-01]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref><ref name="PublicitySeeker">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6453707.stm |title=Mills is 'not a publicity seeker' |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2007-03-15]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref>
During several interviews in October 2007, Mills accused the media of giving her "worse press than a [[pedophilia|paedophile]] or a [[murderer]]".<ref name="MillsTreatedWorse">{{cite web |first=Will |last=Pavla |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2781347.ece |title=I’ve been treated worse than a paedophile or murderer, claims Heather Mills |publisher=[[The Times]] |date=[[2007-11-01]] |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref> She also criticised the media over the treatment of the late [[Diana, Princess of Wales]]—who, according to Mills, was "chased and killed" by [[paparazzi]]—and of [[Madeleine McCann|Kate McCann]].<ref name="MillsAbuse">{{cite web |first=Nicole |last=Martin|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/31/mills331.xml |title=Heather Mills in tears over 'abuse' |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=[[2007-10-31]] |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref> Immediately before giving these interviews, her [[PR]] adviser, Phil Hall, quit.<ref name="MillsPRAdvisorQuits">{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Tryhorn |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/oct/31/marketingandpr.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media |title=Mills splits with PR adviser |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |date=[[2007-10-31]] |accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref> Mills then went to the U.S. where she gave a number of further televised interviews, saying that the divorce was largely brought about by her husband. She alleged that the breakdown of the marriage was caused by her husband's daughter [[Stella McCartney|Stella]], whom she described as "jealous" and "evil".<ref name="StellaEvilSaysMills">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22699241-2,00.html?from=mostpop |title=Stella McCartney evil, says Heather Mills |publisher=News |date=[[2007-11-04]] |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref> Mills had previously talked with [[New York Magazine]], saying Stella had once issued a press release confirming how much she liked her new [[stepmother]], although Stella's publicist denied that such a statement had ever been issued.<ref name="SecretsAndLies"/> In 2008, a survey commissioned by ''Marketing'' magazine showed Mills as the most hated celebrity.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Does this picture make you angry?|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7402907.stm|work= BBC News|publisher= BBC|date= 2008-05-16|accessdate=2008-05-16 }}</ref>
===Criticism of press coverage===
In 2002, Mills accepted damages of £50,000 plus costs from the ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'', after a false report that the Charity Commission had investigated her about the money she claimed to have raised for the [[India]]n [[earthquake]] victims appeal in 2001.<ref name="LibelDamages">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2209190.stm |title=Mills accepts libel damages |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=[[2002-06-22]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref>
The extent and nature of the British press coverage of Mills has been criticised, as Publicist Mark Borkowski wrote in the ''Independent on Sunday'', on [[23 March]] [[2008]]: "Not since the cult of [[Myra Hindley]] have we encountered so much vitriol aimed at one woman."<ref name="WhatNowMills">{{cite web |first=Mark |last=Borkowski |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/first-the-split-then-the-court-fight-what-now-for-ms-mills-799518.html |title=First the split, then the court fight. What now for Ms Mills? |publisher=[[The Independent|Independent]] |date=[[2008-03-23]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> [[Feminist]] writer [[Natasha Walter]] has compared the coverage to that of [[Britney Spears]].<ref name="HatingHeather">{{cite web |first=Kira |last=Cochrane |url=http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2266631,00.html |title=Why we love to hate Heather |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |date=[[2008-03-20]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> [[Terence Blacker]] wrote that public figures who are young, female, pretty and fair-haired, are often subjected to public bullying which is explained as "intense media interest", such as [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], [[Paula Yates]], [[Ulrika Johnsson]], and Mills.<ref name="MillsIsBullied">{{cite web |first=Terence |last=Blacker |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/terence-blacker/terence-blacker-heather-mills-is-right-ndash-she-is-a-victim-of-bullying-398632.html |title=Terence Blacker: Heather Mills is right – she is a victim of bullying |publisher=[[The Independent]] |date=[[2007-11-02]] |accessdate=2008-07-12}}</ref> Kira Cochrane, in ''The Guardian'', said that "every [[Misogyny|misogynist]] epithet available" has been used against Mills. "She has somehow become the vessel through which it is acceptable for both pundits and the public to express their very worst feelings about women."<ref name="HatingHeather"/> Joan Smith, writing in ''[[The Independent]]'', said that newspaper "[[Bully|Bullies]] love a weakling"; quoting The ''Daily Mirror'''s front page headline: "Lady Liar", and ''The Sun'' newspaper writing "Pornocchio" over Mills' face (in reference to [[Pinocchio]]'s nose getting longer when he lied, and Mills' past photographs).<ref name="EverybodyLovesAWeakling">{{cite web |first=Joan |last=Smith |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-smith/joan-smith-bullies-love-a-weakling-ndash-and-heather-fits-the-bill-798315.html |title=Joan Smith: Bullies love a weakling – and Heather fits the bill |publisher=[[The Independent]] |date=[[2008-04-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-12}}</ref> Smith went on to say that Mills had "dreamt of becoming the wife of a famous man but did not realise that he had fantasies of his own, marrying an attractive younger woman when he hadn't got over the loss of his first wife. Mills behaved foolishly when the marriage failed but she does not deserve the treatment she has had in the mass-market press. It is merciless bullying of an unstable, vulnerable woman".<ref name="EverybodyLovesAWeakling"/> Mills has complained that over 4,400 abusive articles about her have been published.<ref name="MillsIsBullied"/>
==Present life==
Mills continues to campaign for amputees, in addition to promoting the distribution of prostheses around the world, and has been involved with the development of the "Heather Mills McCartney Cosmesis," which gives amputees in America the chance to wear a Dorset Orthopaedic [[cosmesis]], without needing to travel to the UK.<ref name="Trademark">{{cite web |first=Julia |last=Day |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/sep/04/marketingandpr?commentpage=1 |title=Mills McCartney set to become a trademark |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |date=[[2003-09-04]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> Mills is also a vice-president of the [[Limbless Association]].<ref name="LimblessAssociation">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.limbless-association.org/ |title=25th Anniversary |publisher=Limbless Association |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> In 2003, the [[Open University]] awarded her an honorary doctorate for her [[Philanthropy|philanthropic]] work on behalf of amputees.<ref name="Graduate">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www3.open.ac.uk/events/1/2003331_52351_nr.doc |title= Honorary Graduates Of The Open University 2003 |publisher=[[The Open University]] |date=[[2003-03-27]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> In 2004, she received a "Children in Need" award from the annual International Charity Gala in [[Düsseldorf]], and in the same year, the [[University of California, Irvine]] gave her their 2004 Human Security Award, and created the Heather Mills McCartney Fellowship in Human Security to support graduate students conducting research on pressing human security issues.<ref name="HumanSecurityGraduate">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.cusa.uci.edu/fellowships.htm#Heather_Mills_McCartney_Graduate_Fellowship_in_Human_Security |title=Heather Mills McCartney Graduate Fellowship in Human Security |publisher=Center for Unconventional Security Affairs |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref> She is also a [[Goodwill Ambassador]] for the [[United Nations Association]] [[Adopt-A-Minefield]] programme.<ref name="AdoptAMinefield">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.landmines.org/docUploads/Complete%20Press%20Kit.pdf |title=Adopt-A-Minefield (p5) |publisher=A Program of the United Nations Association of the USA |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref><ref name="SecretsAndLies"/>
Mills was one of the celebrity performers showcased during the U.S. television series ''[[Dancing with the Stars (US TV series)|Dancing with the Stars]]'' in 2007.<ref name="DancingWithTheStars">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17257926/ |title=Heather Mills set to go ‘Dancing with the Stars’ |publisher=The Associated Press |date=[[2007-02-21]] |accessdate=2008-07-11}}</ref> She was eliminated from the show in the sixth week of competition on [[April 24]], [[2007]], donating £50,000 of her £110,000 fee for appearing on the show to Viva!.<ref name=Judgment/><ref name="MCartneyMillsBeginning">{{cite web |first=Cindy |last=Clark |url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-03-17-mccartney-mills-timeline_N.htm |title= McCartney and Mills from the beginning |publisher=[[USA Today]] |date=[[2008-04-12]] |accessdate=2008-07-17}}</ref> On [[1 December]] [[2007]], Neil Simpson published ''The Unsinkable Heather Mills: The Unauthorized Biography of the Great Pretender''.<ref name="MillsBook">{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.whatgoeson.com/news/200801161302/heather-mills-unauthorized-biography-of-the-great-pretender.html |title=Heather Mills: Unauthorized Biography of the Great Pretender |publisher=Walrus Media |date=[[2008-01-16]] |accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref><ref name="AmazonBook">{{cite web |first=Neil |last=Simpson |url=http://www.amazon.com/Unsinkable-Heather-Mills-Unauthorized-Biography/dp/1597775576/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1216238665&sr=11-1 |title=The Unsinkable Heather Mills: The Unauthorized Biography of the Great Pretender [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)|publisher=Phoenix Books; Ill edition (December 1, 2007) |date=[[2007-12-01]] |accessdate=2008-07-16}}</ref> In June 2008, Mills was asked to talk at a New York party about the cruelty of puppy farms, and to promote her book about animals, but verbally assaulted guests when they spoke over her speech, shouting: "Listen up at the back. I haven’t been up for 24 hours and flew here from London to be ignored".<ref name="TalkedOverNewYork">{{cite web |first= |last= |url= http://www.welt.de/english-news/article2083029/Heather_Mills_reportedly_flew_into_a_rage_when_partygoers_refused_to_listen_to_her_speech..html |title= Heather Mills reportedly flew into a rage when partygoers refused to listen to her speech |publisher=Welt Online |date=[[2008-06-09]] |accessdate=2008-07-08}}</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book | author=Mills, Heather| title=A Single Step | publisher=Warner Books | year=2002 | id=ISBN 0-446-53165-0}}
* ''Life Balance: The Essential Keys to a Lifetime of Well Being'', with Ben Noakes (2006). ISBN 0-7181-4667-0
==External links==
*[http://www.heathermills.org/ Heather Mills]
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