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Barbara Walters, Nancy Shevell Are Related


Barbara Walter’s negative comments about Heather Mills on Monday’s The View took on some considerable weight today. In the episode, Ms. Walters called Paul McCartney’s ex-wife “so impossible” and “not a very nice woman.”

As it happens, Mr. McCartney’s new lover, Nancy Shevell, is Ms. Walters’ kin. Cousins, in fact. During the said episode, the venerable newswoman’s also said that when she interviewed Mr. McCartney’s now-ex-wife, she was “extremely difficult.”

In a statement to the Huffington Post, Ms. Walters’ publicist, Cindi Berger, explains:

“Barbara was unaware that Nancy was involved with Paul McCartney. We just found out about that when the press alerted us. Barbara and Nancy are second cousins. Barbara is not her aunt.”

Barbara’s Kissing Cousin: Walters And Paul McCartney’s Girlfriend Are Family [HuffPo]

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Chi (not verified) says:

This new revelation does absolutely nothing to detract from the fact that the woman Heather Mills as we've all being subjected to on television is simply despicable-

And contrary to much speculation hers was not a nervous breakdown. It was clearly the unmitigated fury of a woman scorned; a woman who can no longer manipulate and control a man who once cared deeply for her. Sometimes we take our lovers for granted and then one day they wake up and we can no longer reach them the way we once could and it hits us! This is what’s happening with Heather Mills. Once upon a time she had Paul McCartney’s total love and attention, but she abused and squandered it and now she's grasping desperately and her tactics are seriously backfiring and she's pissed! Anything to get his attention (and unfortunately ours); She threatens, she wields and brandishes their daughter, she goes on guilt trips, she blackmails-

All the while, she simply fails to or refuses to get it: Once you drive a man away you can't get him to love you the way he used to and most especially not with these tactics/antics - the venom and horridness only help the scales fall quicker from his eyes and make his heart even smarter & harder. I'm a woman, I know because it happened to me-

A piece of advice to Heather; when you find yourself in a deep hole, stop digging.

Curiously, I think Miss Mills and her cohorts somehow think that so called "Charity Work" is a manipulation tool/resource that is to be exploited for personal gain, providing cover and somehow absolves a vindictive narcissist of all her iniquities and is to be wielded often as a guaranteed "get out of jail free" card.

She appears to be a well-rehearsed liar and when called to account, will make up anything spontaneously to fit her needs at any moment - Her stories are so inconsistent and unashamedly self-serving.

I do not for a minute believe that her daughter is in any danger. I am not convinced there is a credible threat to Heather Mills either. After all, it is patently clear what this woman is all about and she is not doing herself any favors (the martyr act is so unconvincing).

The fact that Heather Mills feels justified in sharing with the outside world her ex's "secrets" says a lot more about her character than the tapes or whatever else is in her "box" will ever reveal about Paul McCartney's (Gosh, that 'sordid' tales of an aging rock star behaving like an aging rock star might actually shock the world?!).

I think she has irreparably damaged her own reputation with this move.

Her latest media assault was not as she claimed to highlight press inaccuracies but a blatant vicious public attack on her soon to be ex and his family.

Like someone else rightly pointed out, all these interviews, threats, blackmail, tearless cries (she really should get her tear glands checked) says all we need to know about Mills.

She’s an abrasive, shrill gold digger who complains about privacy, yet has no qualms about exposing her husband's (and lets not forget, the father of her child….she never lets us forget this) private life stories which she was only privy to as his wife. Talk about a lack of integrity and the lowest form of gutter mentality. No matter what big secret she holds over him, she will always be vile for even suggesting that she might release them.

If I were him, I'd let the chips fall were they may - Most times innuendo is actually much more damaging than the actual revelation of the "big secret"-

And if she were smart, she would take whatever divorce settlement McCartney is offering (confidentiality clause a must!); live a quiet life with her daughter and do some anonymous charity work. In five or ten years, the public might yet give her another chance.

Who knows, with some major rehabilitation we just might even grow to like her – after all that’s what she so desperately craves (along with the loot from McCartney of course!)

MHP (not verified) says:

The fact is that once the public makes someone an icon even they sometimes have trouble measuring up. Certainly no one would give a 2nd wife to Paul McCartney a chance -- she not only married Paul, but took the place of Linda (at least, some people would feel she was intruding into Linda's space). Then she had the nerve to leave him.

To think that people would be threatening her life is crazy.

Barbara may have hurt her credibility. I certainly know if I were a celebrity that I would hesitate to give her an interview if she were going to comment to others about me after. Barbara should have kept her mouth shut. Especially such trival things - if she'd kicked her child - that might be another matter.

The fact is most of us don't know the truth about what goes on in the lives of our family members much less someone in the public eye. It is time we quit making judgments based upon bits and pieces.

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