'Suicidal' Heather Mills: I'm hated like Kate McCann

'I've considered committing suicide'

•'I'm being persecuted like Kate McCann'

•'I'm £1million in debt'

•'My daughter's life is at risk'

Heather Mills claimed today she had been driven to the brink of suicide after her break-up with Sir Paul McCartney and says she has been victim of a public hate campaign similar to that experienced by Kate McCann.

In a tearful TV tirade, she said she had legal debts of £1.5 million and also said she had “a box of evidence that is going to a certain person if anything happens to me”.

In an extraordinary interview on GMTV, her voice breaking with emotion, Ms Mills said she had been “pushed to the edge” by media harassment, claiming “18 months of abuse, 4,400 abusive articles”.

She added: “I considered killing myself because I thought if I am dead, she [my daughter] can be safe with her father.”

Ms Mills denied she had a specific divorce clause allowing her to sell her story later.

“I could sell my story right now. I'm trying to protect Paul and our daughter. When did I ask for anything?”

“These figures are made up, £100 million, £50 million, £20 million. How do you know if I even want any money? I am £1.5 million in debt in lawyers' fees.”

Ms Mills claimed police had told her she was the subject of “serious death threats from an underground movement”, prompting her to upgrade security at her home.

“My daughter Beatrice's life is at risk,” she said.

Speaking to Fiona Phillips, the 39-year-old former model and campaigner said of her treatment by the media: “I'm living in a prison and I'll have to fight back or I'll go insane.

“Look what they are doing to the McCanns, the woman and the poor father have lost their daughter.

“What are we doing as a nation to persecute a woman that is devastated behind closed doors and trying to hold it together as I have for 18 months.

“What did the paparazzi do to Diana? They chased her and they killed her. Never mind all these other stories, that is what we are doing as a nation - buying these newspapers.

“They will go for me tomorrow and they will go, 'She's crazy and she's this and she's that'. Go for it because I will do even more.

“There needs to be responsible journalism. They are pushing people over the edge.”

She drew a comparison with The Sun's reporting of the Hillsborough football disaster which carried claims about the behaviour of Liverpool fans.

Ms Mills said: “They said that they were looting dead bodies. They said they were urinating over them.” In fact, said Ms Mills, the fans “were going through the pockets for ID.”

She then apologised for getting “so upset.”

source: dailymail.co.uk

I was having a lazy morning and was tuned in as usual to GMTV, when Heather Mills was announced as the next person to be interviewed.

I am no fan of this woman and NEVER have been and I am about as much interested in her life or divorce as much as I am in boiling my head, but oh my god what an interview!

I say interview, it wasn't an interview at all as poor Fiona Phillips could not get a word in edgeways. Heather Mills went on a crazy, mad, one woman rant about the press and how they have hounded her and made her life hell. (Interestingly the website the above article is from had over 40 very negative comments about her)

I have no doubt that she has done some very excellent work for charity, but a lot of people do without making a big song and dance about it. She has also overcome a major accident and disability, as have a lot of people who also don't shout about it. But does she really think that the press who she has used so much for her benefit are now going to leave her alone ??

Play with fire and you'll get your hands burned!