MILLS MISSED MOTHER’S DEATH AFTER STORE FIGHT
HEATHER MILLS missed her mother’s death after she became embroiled in a d= epartment store dispute just minutes after leaving her hospital bedside.
The former wife of Sir Paul McCartney grew up in a troubled household, = with her mother Beatrice abandoning her three children after allegedly su= ffering years of domestic abuse at the hand’s of Mills’ father John.
Mills relished the chance to get close to her mother again in her late = teens, and stayed at the matriarch’s bedside when she entered hospital fo= r a routine operation on her leg.
But the reunion was destined to be short-lived as the charity campaigne= r lost out on the chance to say goodbye to her mum as a blood clot claime= d her life - because she got into a brawl while buying new pyjamas for he= r mother’s hospital stay.
She tells U.K. show Shrink Rap, "My mother lost her leg at the same age= and in the same place (as me). Years and years later, when she was 47, s= he had bad blood circulation in it and they were going to do a very small= procedure of vascular surgery. She was in the Middlesex hospital in Lond= on, and she had asked me to go and get some red pyjamas because her wound= was leaking so much in her white ones that she was fed up of changing th= em.
"So I went to (U.K. retailer) Topshop on Oxford Street, and walked up t= hese escalators and there were these two ladies in front of me - young te= enage hard (tough) girls. I said, ‘Excuse me, if I could just get by,’ an= d they just moved out of the way and tutted. And I just went, ‘Sorry?’ an= d started to walk up. The next thing I felt was this girl pull my hair an= d down the escalator and I remember tumbling on the floor and this fight,= but all I remember was I have to get back to my mother. And when I got b= ack she had died, and it had literally been three minutes.
"So If I hadn’t got into this fight with this girl, I might have got to= say goodbye. And for the first time in my life, all my anger came out, a= nd I just kicked the furniture around the room." Mills lost her left leg below the knee aged 25 after a police motorbike= knocked her down while responding to an emergency in 2003.
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