Heather Mills loses it on telly

She said: "I am going to basically, just like I changed the law with some like-minded people, anyone that wants to help go to youcare.com and you'll see how you can help and sign the petition.

"I need to get everybody to petition that they don't want to be lied to any more by the press. They want their children to grow up in a society where press is just and fair and the size of the lie they print is the size of the apology they have to print.

"And they have to reveal their made-up sources and their so-called friends unless it's a criminal situation, because they make up such lies. They've called me a whore, a golddigger, a fantasist, a liar, the most unbelievably hurtful things, and I've stayed quiet for my daughter.

"But my daughter... we've had death threats, I've been close to suicide. I'm so upset about this... I've had worse press than a paedophile or a murderer and I've done nothing but charity for 20 years.

"I came on here talking about vegetarianism 15 years ago. I sat here and Dr Hilary Jones (GMTV's health and medical adviser) said 'She's crazy, she's talking about wheatgrass and giving up meat and dairy'.

"And then they want to write that I just suddenly make up vegetarianism to please Paul. You've got footage. Find it, show it.

"It's just everyone has jumped on the bandwagon.

"My sister was crying her eyes out because that awful Jordan and Peter Andre did a joke on Sunday and I've had six amputee girls crying their eyes out because they're getting bullied at school because people are joking about the loss of my limb.

"Jonathan Ross said 'She's such an effing liar, we're going to find out she's got two legs instead of one'.

"I have protected my husband. I know everything and I know the truth. I even got an apology from, because the judge pushed for it, when they said that my petition was a lie.

"And the size of the apology? 'We're sorry. We now accept that the judge did not throw out any of her claims. She was not portrayed as a liar in court and did not erupt with rage'."

Question: "Listen, there will be people at home saying that at the beginning, Heather, you did use the press...

She answered: "I haven't used the press for anything except my charity. When did I promote a record? When did I act for anything? They always say 'publicity-seeker'. Look at me going to court. My pelvis is bust. You've seen the X-ray, right, which I had to produce because they put in here, 'Heather pulls her leg off', and, you know, talks about her pelvis.

"My pelvis has been broken for a while but I have months when I can walk and months when I can't. It pops out but I can't spend four months on my back in another operation while I'm going through this.

"This picture (points to her clippings folder) on this front page was taken when the paparazzi pulled the car door open and then they say, Heather tries to pull off a disability thing, when I'm in a blacked-out car hiding under a blanket because I knew I had to go into court and I knew they would turn around and say that she's trying to get publicity.

"It's fine that Paul can walk in going "Are you all right', and I'm hiding and I am the one that is abused daily. I have protected Paul for this long and I am trying to protect him but I am being pushed to the edge and I don't want my daughter when she is 12 going on the internet reading this totally one-sided story.

"I'm up to here with it. My plan is to change the law in the European Parliament and I will do it. And I'm fed-up with the specific portion of the media. Some of them are still supportive but a specific portion are abusing me.

"I will investigate each and every one of those journalists.

"Everyone jumps on the bandwagon, makes money out of my misery."

GMTV: "I know that, and I know you're upset and I know you're only human, which is what people are forgetting. But during the coverage of the divorce case they have been saying that you want 50 million...

She replies: "I have been offered nothing, OK, nothing. We go to court, nothing to do with that. We go to court over my daughter. I'm not allowed to talk about it because it's a criminal act if I talk about my daughter. You have no idea what's going on.

"These figures are made up... 100 million, 50 million, 20 million. How do you know if I even want any money? I'm 1.5 million in debt in lawyers' fees, and that's as much as I can say or I go to jail, for telling the truth.

"So I'm gagged at the moment because I'm not allowed to say a word while the media are fed this spin by a certain corner."

GMTV: "One of the clauses, apparently, in this whole divorce thing, is that you want to be able to sell your story...

She replied: "It's rubbish. I can sell my story right now. I'm trying to protect Paul and our daughter. I am trying, and I'm being pushed to the edge.

"Eighteen months of abuse, 4,400 abusive articles.

"Look what they're doing to the McCanns. The woman has lost, and the poor father, have lost their daughter. What are we doing as a nation?

"What are we doing persecuting 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. Every time you buy one of those, you contribute to it.

So force a change for responsible journalism."

"Rupert Murdoch, when he bought that newspaper, is quoted as saying 'I can't believe how easy it was to get in the British media. I can't believe it and I promise you I will always give you honest and straightforward journalism'. Nothing like it.

"And they will go for me tomorrow and they'll go she's crazy and she's this and she's that... Go for it, because I will do even more.

"Sorry I got upset. I'm so up to here. Can you imagine being persecuted for that long."

(Programme goes to a break)

"One of the guys, who I had convicted for assault-which they thought I wouldn't follow through to the end-had 132 convictions.

"132 convictions and he's hired with no licence. They have to be licensed, because how do I know when someone's sitting outside my house if they're a stalker or not?

"It is living in a prison.

"The only respite I got was going to America, and I did Dancing With The Stars because our charity was so damaged that we needed the money.

"I was the only person on the show that gave the money to charity, and then they wanted to turn that into something awful-'Get lost mucka', says the Sun.

"I've got 4,000 cuttings, like "Mucka cha cha".

"How do they mean 'Mucka' for doing glamour modelling, and they say it's hardcore porn!

"I would live in America in two seconds but I live here to keep my daughter close to her father.

"I compromise everything-you have no idea how much I have done to compromise.

"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.

"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'.

"I was like 'Are you serious?', and they said 'Here's the 999 number', but I never rang the 999 number, I always rang the 0845 number.

"The press write I'm crying wolf for 999 calls, when the police came to me to tell me I had death threats and I had to be careful.

"That means my daughter's life is at risk, because she's with me all the time.

"Could I get security? No.

"Did I have to go to the bank and borrow it? Yes.

"It's disgusting, it's absolutely disgusting.

"Who created those death threats? 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.

"That's why I considered killing myself, because I thought if I was dead, at least my daughter would be safe.

"And that is the truth, and I've got nothing to lose.

"I've got 300 friends who came to my daughter's party, and they are biting their tongues not to talk, because they're so loyal.

"Even a journalist said to my publicist 'Her friends are so loyal, we can't even get them to say a word.

"Whereas other people's so-called friends are putting stuff out right, left and centre.

"I just hope everybody goes on UK.com and starts taking responsibility for what we're going to feed our children for the next 20 years.

"We don't want them to live in a celebrity culture unless that celebrity is going to be used in life to make a difference in the finite amount of seconds we have left on the planet."

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