At last, what Stella McCartney really thinks of her step-mother
Confrontations, claims of manipulation - and the B-word. Anthony Barnes on another acrimonious day
Published:29 October 2006




With her video camera trained on waiting cameramen, yesterday was just like any other day for Heather Mills-McCartney. On the day her daughter Beatrice celebrated her third birthday, Lady McCartney kept up her daily ritual of chronicling encounters with the media on video as she drove from her East Sussex home.

But there was one encounter she didn't capture on film: the broadside everybody in the McCartney saga had been anticipating, as Sir Paul's outspoken fashion designer daughter Stella finally broke the family's silence and disclosed exactly what she thought of her soon-to-be-ex stepmother.

Stella, 34, who is heavily pregnant, reportedly screamed "I'll kill the bitch" in a confrontation at the family home last week, after learning that Heather had accused Sir Paul of hitting her mother, Linda, during their marriage. Stella allegedly said: "I told you she was a bitch. Why did you marry her? She's been a manipulative cow from day one. The cow won't be happy until she destroys all of us ­ and our memories of our mother."

The quotes, made public in The News of The World today, will fuel acrimony in the multi-million pound divorce. The newspaper quotes a source close to the family claiming Stella compared her stepmother to "a pile of vomit" . The source said: "Stella would get so upset listening to her dad that she once said, 'I don't want to bring my child into the world with her as a grandmother. She's a bitch from hell.'"

The newspaper claims that Stella told Heather she considered her "a money-grabbing bitch", and that Sir Paul, 64, was now drinking heavily as a result of the events surrounding his divorce and the effect it was having on his family.

In a separate development, it was claimed last night that Heather is planning a Princess Diana-style "tell-all" primetime TV interview, and is in negotiations with the BBC and ITV.

Beatrice had a low-key birthday party at a children's activity centre in East Sussex yesterday afternoon. By contrast, her father will raise his profile significantly in a few days' time before a packed house at the Royal Albert Hall. His classical work, Ecce Cor Meum ­ "Behold My Heart" ­ receives its premier. The audience is expected to include P Diddy, Tony Bennett and possibly Madonna, a friend of Stella.

This is Sir Paul's first major public outing since his divorce descended into mud-slinging and acrimony after court papers alleging he was cruel and occasionally violent were leaked. It will also be a pointed rebuff to Heather; the work was eight years in the making and is dedicated to his first wife, Linda, who died in 1998 from breast cancer.

He will get through this moment of scrutiny with the help of family and friends: Sir Paul will be seated in one of the velvet-draped boxes beside Stella and his other children James and Mary. Others in the audience will include friends and supporters such as Kate Moss and the musician and TV presenter Jools Holland. "It will undoubtedly be a very poignant occasion. Everyone will be rallying round," said an insider.

The hostile relationship between the former Beatle and his wife, dubbed Lady Mucca by The Sun, plummeted to new depths just under a fortnight ago when the court papers apparently prepared by Heather were leaked. The pages were sent anonymously to the Press Association news agency's head office in Howden, East Yorkshire. The company's IT team has traced the source of the original fax to a newsagent in central London, Drury News, whose proprietor claimed to remember a brunette woman sending the fax.

It has also emerged that Heather's PR adviser, Phil Hall, has been sidelined from handling the minutiae of the case in favour of the PR Office, the firm that looks after the account for her lawyers, Mishcon de Reya.

In an interview this week with USA Today, Sir Paul, who has been attending rehearsals of Ecce Cor Meum, said he was still hoping for a peaceful outcome. "I'm just hoping for a happy resolution, particularly for the sake of our beautiful daughter, Beatrice, and my other children," he said.


With her video camera trained on waiting cameramen, yesterday was just like any other day for Heather Mills-McCartney. On the day her daughter Beatrice celebrated her third birthday, Lady McCartney kept up her daily ritual of chronicling encounters with the media on video as she drove from her East Sussex home.

But there was one encounter she didn't capture on film: the broadside everybody in the McCartney saga had been anticipating, as Sir Paul's outspoken fashion designer daughter Stella finally broke the family's silence and disclosed exactly what she thought of her soon-to-be-ex stepmother.

Stella, 34, who is heavily pregnant, reportedly screamed "I'll kill the bitch" in a confrontation at the family home last week, after learning that Heather had accused Sir Paul of hitting her mother, Linda, during their marriage. Stella allegedly said: "I told you she was a bitch. Why did you marry her? She's been a manipulative cow from day one. The cow won't be happy until she destroys all of us ­ and our memories of our mother."

The quotes, made public in The News of The World today, will fuel acrimony in the multi-million pound divorce. The newspaper quotes a source close to the family claiming Stella compared her stepmother to "a pile of vomit" . The source said: "Stella would get so upset listening to her dad that she once said, 'I don't want to bring my child into the world with her as a grandmother. She's a bitch from hell.'"

The newspaper claims that Stella told Heather she considered her "a money-grabbing bitch", and that Sir Paul, 64, was now drinking heavily as a result of the events surrounding his divorce and the effect it was having on his family.

In a separate development, it was claimed last night that Heather is planning a Princess Diana-style "tell-all" primetime TV interview, and is in negotiations with the BBC and ITV.

Beatrice had a low-key birthday party at a children's activity centre in East Sussex yesterday afternoon. By contrast, her father will raise his profile significantly in a few days' time before a packed house at the Royal Albert Hall. His classical work, Ecce Cor Meum ­ "Behold My Heart" ­ receives its premier. The audience is expected to include P Diddy, Tony Bennett and possibly Madonna, a friend of Stella.

Just to be sure I don't want to discuss the McCartney saga....but it appears to me that we've all been there with relationships..you pick the wrong person and when you try to leave all hell breaks loose......

In one relationship her friends even had the bloody cheek to come to my house sit in my front room to chat me.....that stopped once i confronted it and put all the TRUTH on the table then they apologised and left never to return...

Or amother occassion when i separated from someone, thinking that it was all done and dusted....oh, boy was i wrong..I only buck up on her at a dance by chance and that was it, melodramtics or what... my girl is pretending to faint, have a hissy fit and carrying on as if it was my fault....in public charming!!!

So to some extent as much as I might want to mock Macca...in some ays I know just how he feels when he thinks..'what was i on when I went with this person'.... have you met or been with that person from hell!!

Man Fu - you're reeling them out this morning. Well I'm an all or nothing person in most if not all the things I do. As such I will caution on the simple side of the fence but if pushed to the other side, when I cuss I don't descriminate, your mother, father sister, brother - they all get it!

Women in these situations will always try and save their face, if it means turning into a b**ch then they will. The naive among men will see them as two-faced but ask any cocksman, it's just how women are.

I went school with Heather and remeber everybody wanted a piece because she had some huge breasts. She's had them reduced since but I believe some serious scandals about her are about to come to the fore. I always believed Stella being of similar generation would spot any concerns immediately.

But you know how the song goes, 'When a man loves a woman'...remember it's him who ran her down, as a woman, would you have said no? A man of such status, most would find a way to 'love' him even if initially they didn't. I guess for some it takes a divorce to find out what the people involved in it were really in there for.

She has obviously worked out to the letter what the media is all about and how they can be exploiited and how to make money off them. As we know, you can have scandals til the cows come how, but it's passable if you've got money. Watch out for the next celebrity big brother!

Stella is completely right. From when you can offer a woman 30 million to go bout her business but she's hanging around wallowing in scandal then she clearly has a bigger fish to catch....and as always in situations like this, there's never a shortage of women telling men they care for how women stay. Bet your bottom dollar if she thinks she can get away with it she'll be saving the accusation of rape til last.

Sour grapes bizness is never good, I never understood what makes women carry on suh. (well, we know the reason for McCarthy's ex-wife...)

It's even worse when best friends are involved... they always seem to get up in the kool-aid. I had to tell a friend to step out of it because it wasn't her relationship. Gave him the cussing out that I should have, though

People are funny, eh?

Don't **** with a scorned woman - simple.

A woman scorned is a dangerous woman if she hasn't come to terms or moved on from the situation that brought about her scorn...

Agreed - but vindictiveness is a bi product of a scorn scenario...

I've seen STRONG brothas (Mind, Body and Spirit) broken down by women that won't let them see their kids...

Especially if said brothaman rejected babymother for another younger, prettier model...

They sometimes use the kids as a weapon...

Sad but true...