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In a new Channel 5 documentary, all the juicy details of Paul McCartney and his ex-wife Heather Mills’ rocky relationship are revealed.

Mills admits in the doccie that she couldn’t escape the ghost of Paul’s late wife Linda, who died in 1998, leaving Paul a widower at just 55 years old.

I mean, shame, Paul and Linda’s marriage was one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest love stories, they barely spent a night apart in three decades and when The Beatles broke up, they joined forces musically. So of course, as Paul’s second wife, Mills struggled to live in Linda’s shadow. She apparently fell for Paul just a year after the photographer’s death from breast cancer.

In The Trials Of Heather Mills, Heather’s close friend Pamela Cockerill tells how Paul’s first wife was an “inescapable presence” in Heather and Paul’s relationship, per The Evening Standard:

“I think Heather found it quite hard to live in the same house that, only a couple of years before, Linda had been living in,” says Pamela.

“And the house hadn’t been changed that much. [Linda] was an inescapable presence because obviously she was such a big part of Paul’s life.”

Paul even made a shrine to his late wife, according to Cockerill who was also the ghostwriter of Heather’s biography Out On A Limb.

“There were little plaques saying ‘I love Linda’ over the doorways and photos of her all around,” says Pamela.

Paul fell head over heels for Linda after meeting her at a London nightclub in 1967. He married the single mom two years later, immortalising their love in The Beatles’ ‘Two Of Us’ as well as Paul’s songs ‘The Lovely Linda, Man We Was Lonely’ and ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’. They also went on to have three children, Mary, 53, Stella, 51, and James, 45 and even worked together in their band, Wings.

Paul admitted that when Linda died, he “cried for about a year on and off”, but then, 13 months later, Heather and Paul met and quickly began dating. They married in 2002, but Paul reportedly kept on the ring he wore while married to Linda until the night before the wedding.

After their daughter Beatrice came into the world, Paul and Heather – who had a 25-year age gap – decided to go their separate ways in 2006. And you won’t believe what Paul said about their relationship – he actually called it one of the biggest blunders of his entire life! Ouch, that’s gotta sting.

That’s when Heather quickly became one of the most hated figures in the world, reportedly called a ‘golddigger’ after receiving around $109 million of Paul’s $750 million net worth during the bitter divorce battle.

The full doccie seems to be on YouTube if you want to check it out:

In 2011, Paul married Nancy Shevell, with the now 80-year-old revealing last Valentine’s Day that he tries to be “a considerate and romantic” husband to his third wife.

[source:eveningstandard]