MACCA STUBBED OUT DRAW FOR MILLS

There's always been something more than a little Daily Express leader page about Heather Mills, and her attitude to Paul McCartney's love of cannabis seems to underline that. She made him quit the drug:

"I would not get married to him if he was taking drugs. I hate it. I counselled people on drugs," she told the magazine.

"I could not have him lying to our child about not taking drugs and then going out for a sneaky puff."

Heather, how could you assume that Paul would be so low as to take advantage of someone who wasn't as bright as he is, by telling them he'd given up then going off somewhere else for a quick roll-up. We're sure he wouldn't do that. Where is he, by the way? Just popped out to "walk the dog", has he?

What's puzzling here, though, is exactly what Heather thinks she's achieved. McCartney, famously, smoked a little every day for about thirty years, so if the aim was to make him able to tell the kids "just say no", how is that going to work anyway?

Paul: Don't do drugs
Kid: Why?
Paul: It's bad - look, I don't smoke them, do I?
Kid: But you did, every day for thirty years, and it didn't do you any harm

The other curious thing here is that Heather assumes that Macca would lie to the kid about smoking hemp as his default position - although a man who has happily and healthily enjoyed a drug for a third of a century seems to be unlikely to want to join in the whole drug hypocrisy and we'd have thought McCartney would have been more likely to be honest with his children. In fact, McCartney might have been in a wonderful place to talk with the kids about the risks involved in any sort of drug use, able to explain the difference between a bit of home-grown and a pipe full of skunk.

When Heather says she's "counselled", she means "lectured", doesn't she?

Anyway, he's given up now:

Asked by the interviewer if Sir Paul had problems giving up, she replied: "He says he had a good incentive."

Heather doesn't need cocaine to give herself the false impression she's the greatest thing in the world.

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