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"There is a huge agenda about trying to destroy me and put me down. I have a daughter to protect and I don't want to speak badly about any of the parties involved."

In an interview with Sky News she was asked when the divorce would be finalised and replied: "Do you know what, I've got no idea. It's like taking blood from a stone.

"It could take a year, I've got no idea. It's not down to me, it's all down to the hubby."

In yet another interview - this time with GMTV - Mills McCartney said she had no interest in self-publicity.

The former topless model, who lost her leg in a police motorcycle accident, said: "Think about it. When do I ever go on TV, how many times in the last year? Once. I'm chased down the street day in, day out. I'm not a publicity-seeker.

"Try and think of one time in the last 14 years I've gone on TV to promote anything other than a cause. I don't go on to do a CD, I don't go on to promote something that's going to make me some money, otherwise I'd be absolutely loaded," she said.

Asked why she is so unpopular with some of the general public, she replied: "The reason people have such extreme feelings about me is because I speak out and I speak the truth and they don't like it."

Mills McCartney said "Beatle nutters" were the only people not giving her their backing since she split from Sir Paul.

She said: "We have had immense, amazing public support.

"We have a tiny percentage of Beatle nutters who did the same with Linda, did the same with Yoko, did the same with anybody.

"But I have just had so much support. If I go out for a dance or a drink or to a restaurant I just get people coming up all the time saying 'We want to help you - you ignore them'."

Yet in a message on her website, Mills McCartney said she felt nothing but love from Beatles fans when she wed Sir Paul.

"I have attended over 40 of Paul's concerts, spoken to many of his fans and have never sensed a feeling of hatred amongst them," she said.

Mills McCartney also hit out at the suggestion she is a fantasist.

A journalist who shares the name Heather Mills has claimed Mills McCartney posed as her to find work in the 1990s.

Mills McCartney claimed today: "There's this woman going round apparently called Heather Mills saying 'Heather's pretending to be me' and I'm like, excuse me?

"She's trying to say I was pretending I was her because I said I did journalism.

"I wrote for the New Statesman and I wrote as a columnist. I produced for current affairs at the BBC. I'm not making anything up, they are true things."

In the mid-90s sh was credited as a producer on First Say, which was broadcast on BBC Choice (now BBC3).

But a programme source said: "She was technically a producer, but you could use the term loosely.

"She had absolutely no credentials in television and no producing skills whatsoever. We were baffled by how she got the job. Whoever hired her was certainly taken for a ride.

"She did turn up and type a few scripts. To be fair to her, she did try hard and gave it a go - for a while.

"But she didn't last the full term. After a few weeks it all got too much for her and she walked out, disappearing off to see her sister."

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