Paul McCartney keeps Linda's interview tapes sealed, sees Heather Mills at daughter's birthday
Paul McCartney has taken extra precautions to ensure that a series of interviews given by his late wife, Linda McCartney, stay sealed. London's Daily Mail revealed that McCartney had Peter Cox, the co-author of Linda's 1989 book Linda McCartney's Home Cooking, sign an additional gag order to his 1988 agreement stating that he will not make Linda's personal thoughts public.
Cox says that although he cannot discuss the contents of the tapes, he is free to discuss events not found on the tapes, saying that, "Occasionally I'd find Linda in tears, obviously distressed. And there were about five or six occasions when I would get the train down to work with her only to be met by a driver who'd been sent to say that she couldn't see me. That was when I got really worried."
He added that he came to believe that Paul and Linda's marriage was far from perfect: "Every marriage has its ups and downs, of course. In her low moments, the idea of leaving him did cross her mind, but she immediately rejected it. Her family was the most important thing in her life and there was no way she'd give them up. At the low points, she did feel trapped."
Macca has taken the extra measure after his estranged second wife Heather Mills allegedly told insiders that McCartney's staff told her that Linda suffered the same physical abuse as Mills had claimed in her divorce petition against McCartney, which was made public earlier this month.
Paul and Linda McCartney were married for 29 years. Linda died of cancer in 1998. The couple had four children, all now adults.
Another of Linda McCartney's confidants, posthumous biographer Danny Fields, told the New York Daily Post that, "No one knows what happened behind closed doors, but one had the feeling that he drank all day long and she kept her eye on his glass of Scotch and Coke, which he would constantly refill."
McCartney's former bandmember Hamish Stuart, who recorded and toured with the McCartneys from 1987 to 1993, told us that the couple always went to great lengths to guard the privacy of their family: "I never saw (Linda) after she got ill. I wrote to her and Paul a couple of times, but it was a shock. Of course I knew she'd been having treatment and I was, y'know, hoping for the best. But that's the kind of thing that Paul would do, to keep everything very close and private. And I totally respect that, 'cause ultimately it's the family."
In other Macca news:
Despite the original plan for McCartney and Mills to throw separate birthday parties for their three-year-old daughter Beatrice on Saturday (October 28th),they decided to celebrate the toddler's birthday together. McCartney and Mills spent about 90 minutes playing with their daughter at the party held at a local park near McCartney's Pearsmarsh estate in the U.K. The party included an assortment of friends and children, yet apparently none of McCartney's other children or grandchildren were on hand.
According to The Daily Mail, the only overt unpleasantness occurred after a photographer appeared and Mills screamed out, "I'm gonna get an assassin to kill you. You're the scum of the earth," which allegedly shocked both parents and children.
Macca's long time right hand man and former Wings road manager John Hammel also shouted at the photographer, saying, "Don't take a picture of Paul. Get a picture of that f****** whore." McCartney, with Hammel and Beatrice in tow, left soon afterwards.
Meanwhile:
Britain's The Sun reported that London's bookies are already drawing up odds for the McCartneys' divorce settlement. Ladbrokes betting house is offering 2-to-1 odds that Mills walks away with between $96 and $189 million, 3-to-1 odds that Mills scores less than $94 million, and 16-to-1 odds that Mills ends up with $756 million of McCartney's reported $1.5 billion fortune.
McCartney and Mills were married on June 11th, 2002. At McCartney's insistence no prenuptial agreement was drawn up, claiming at the time that it was "unromantic."
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Cox says that although he cannot discuss the contents of the tapes, he is free to discuss events not found on the tapes, saying that, "Occasionally I'd find Linda in tears, obviously distressed. And there were about five or six occasions when I would get the train down to work with her only to be met by a driver who'd been sent to say that she couldn't see me. That was when I got really worried."
He added that he came to believe that Paul and Linda's marriage was far from perfect: "Every marriage has its ups and downs, of course. In her low moments, the idea of leaving him did cross her mind, but she immediately rejected it. Her family was the most important thing in her life and there was no way she'd give them up. At the low points, she did feel trapped."
Macca has taken the extra measure after his estranged second wife Heather Mills allegedly told insiders that McCartney's staff told her that Linda suffered the same physical abuse as Mills had claimed in her divorce petition against McCartney, which was made public earlier this month.
Paul and Linda McCartney were married for 29 years. Linda died of cancer in 1998. The couple had four children, all now adults.
Another of Linda McCartney's confidants, posthumous biographer Danny Fields, told the New York Daily Post that, "No one knows what happened behind closed doors, but one had the feeling that he drank all day long and she kept her eye on his glass of Scotch and Coke, which he would constantly refill."
McCartney's former bandmember Hamish Stuart, who recorded and toured with the McCartneys from 1987 to 1993, told us that the couple always went to great lengths to guard the privacy of their family: "I never saw (Linda) after she got ill. I wrote to her and Paul a couple of times, but it was a shock. Of course I knew she'd been having treatment and I was, y'know, hoping for the best. But that's the kind of thing that Paul would do, to keep everything very close and private. And I totally respect that, 'cause ultimately it's the family."
In other Macca news:
Despite the original plan for McCartney and Mills to throw separate birthday parties for their three-year-old daughter Beatrice on Saturday (October 28th),they decided to celebrate the toddler's birthday together. McCartney and Mills spent about 90 minutes playing with their daughter at the party held at a local park near McCartney's Pearsmarsh estate in the U.K. The party included an assortment of friends and children, yet apparently none of McCartney's other children or grandchildren were on hand.
According to The Daily Mail, the only overt unpleasantness occurred after a photographer appeared and Mills screamed out, "I'm gonna get an assassin to kill you. You're the scum of the earth," which allegedly shocked both parents and children.
Macca's long time right hand man and former Wings road manager John Hammel also shouted at the photographer, saying, "Don't take a picture of Paul. Get a picture of that f****** whore." McCartney, with Hammel and Beatrice in tow, left soon afterwards.
Meanwhile:
Britain's The Sun reported that London's bookies are already drawing up odds for the McCartneys' divorce settlement. Ladbrokes betting house is offering 2-to-1 odds that Mills walks away with between $96 and $189 million, 3-to-1 odds that Mills scores less than $94 million, and 16-to-1 odds that Mills ends up with $756 million of McCartney's reported $1.5 billion fortune.
McCartney and Mills were married on June 11th, 2002. At McCartney's insistence no prenuptial agreement was drawn up, claiming at the time that it was "unromantic."
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